Friday, February 17, 2012

{Review} Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel


Series: Gone With Respiration #1
Publication Date: October 18th, 2011
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN-13: 9780345523310


Synopsis
The world descended to madness, between wars and natural disasters, we must count ourselves lucky that humans still exist. In the year 2195 people have settled near the Ecuador, the nation of New Victoria has risen taking in the good of technology with the values of the victorian era.
After school ends Nora and Pamela find themselves packing and getting ready to go back home to enjoy the holidays. Nora returns home only to find out that her only living relative her aunt Gene has spent all the family money and plans to marry her off to the highest bidder. Nora's anger towards her aunt is tossed away when she is being kidnapped by the walking dead.
Now Nora is brought into the middle of the war, what at first seemed like a fight between Punks and the people of New Victoria turns out to be one of the biggest government cover ups, there is a virus called "Laz" that turns humans into zombies. Nora starts to turn for answers to Captain Griswold, also known as Bram, a soldier with the patience of a saint, a good sense of humor, a noble man, some would called him handsome but most would call him dead. 
In the middle of all the chaos Bram and Nora's relationship soon evolves from trust to something else, they know that their path is not one with out obstacles and that someday the "Laz" will win and their love will end. In spite of it all they will try to stay together until the very end.

Review
Dearly, Departed is a well rounded story, it has romance, action, an interesting story, characters you can relate to and a good plot. One of the things I loved about this story is that we get a full picture of what is happening because we get to experience different points of view, each adding a little something extra to the story. Maybe it is a living dead p.o.v. versus the human, or how things are moving on different places in the story, but you don't get lost between who you are reading and how this impacts the rest of the story.
I really want to thank the people that made it possible for me to read this book via Netgalley, I had been told that this book was a lot like twilight and because I'm not really a Twilight fan that this would be a book I wouldn't enjoy, thank you very much for giving me the chance to read it and see how wrong those people where.
If you want me to be completely honest the whole zombie ♥ human thing was to bizarre for me to digest, but Lia Habel found a way to make it work. You get to see in the story how perfect these two people are to each other if just one of them wasn't dead, Bram personality helps a lot when coping with the relationship, he just has a way of making it less awkward.
If you ever get a chance to read this book, please tell me your thoughts.


Rating: 10 out of 10

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