Review: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

“I want to sleep, I want dreams to pull me from this world and make me forget. To stop the memories from swirling around me. To put an end to this ache that consumes me.”

In Mary’s world there are simple truths.
The Sisterhood always knows best.
The Guardians will protect and serve.
The Unconsecrated will never relent.
And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth.
But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power. And, when the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness.
Now, she must choose between her village and her future, between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded in so much death?

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Have you ever had an experience with a book, where you just wish you could forget about it and re-read it just so you can get the first time reading feeling/experience again? Yeah that happened for me with this book.
I enjoyed this book and could barely put it down. I connected with the characters and I loved the fresh feel Carrie gave to zombies (Unconsecrated). Mary! Oh how I went through so many emotions with Mary! I would probably be exactly like her if I were in her situation, yet throughout reading this book I thought I would make different choices. Jed got on my nerves at first but redeemed himself. TRAVIS! HARRY! I wanted so bad for her to be able to live with them both. I didn’t have too good of feelings towards Cass but I got over that.
Overall, this book is fabulous and amazing. I suggest it to everyone, I’m so lucky I stumbled across this gem of a book.
(Only thing, beware of a cliffhanger)

Review: Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

“My friend “M” says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can’t smile, because your lips have rotted off.”

‘R’ is a zombie. He has no name, no memories and no pulse, but he has dreams. He is a little different from his fellow Dead. Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R meets a girl. Her name is Julie and she is the opposite of everything he knows – warm and bright and very much alive, she is a blast of colour in a dreary grey landscape. For reasons he can’t understand, R chooses to save Julie instead of eating her, and a tense yet strangely tender relationship begins. This has never happened before. It breaks the rules and defies logic, but R is no longer content with life in the grave. He wants to breathe again, he wants to live, and Julie wants to help him. But their grim, rotting world won’t be changed without a fight..

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I was really surprised by this book! I mean, it looked good from the synopsis, but I was still really doubtful about the plot line but this BLEW MY MIND. I really connected with all of the characters. The writing could maybe have been better but I wasn’t really picky about it. Sometimes it felt like it jumps around the story line fast but you are in for a ride! I found myself feeling the same emotions as the characters and really wanting it to work out for everyone in the end. The ending might feel rushed to some but it still works. I hope they don’t make the movie into something cheesy but the trailer looks promising. 🙂 I would recommend this to all and who knows, I might start loving Zombie lit.