One
shocking afternoon, computers around the globe shut down in a viral
catastrophe. At sixteen-year-old Adam Daley’s high school, the problem first
seems to be a typical electrical outage, until students discover that cell
phones are down, municipal utilities are failing, and a few computer-free cars
like Adam’s are the only vehicles that function. Driving home, Adam encounters
a storm tide of anger and fear as the region becomes paralyzed.
Soon—as
resources dwindle, crises mount, and chaos descends—he will see his suburban
neighborhood band together for protection. And Adam will understand that having
a police captain for a mother and a retired government spy living next door are
not just the facts of his life but the keys to his survival, in The Rule of
Three by Eric Walters.
Series:Struck #1 Publication Date: May 8,
2012 Publisher: Farrar,
Straus and Giroux BYR (MacMillan) ISBN-13: 9780374372835
Mia Price is a lightning addict. She’s survived countless strikes,
but her craving to connect to the energy in storms endangers her life and the
lives of those around her.
Los Angeles, where
lightning rarely strikes, is one of the few places Mia feels safe from her
addiction. But when an earthquake devastates the city, her haven is transformed
into a minefield of chaos and danger. The beaches become massive tent cities.
Downtown is a crumbling wasteland, where a traveling party moves to a different
empty building each night, the revelers drawn to the destruction by a force
they cannot deny. Two warring cults rise to power, and both see Mia as the key
to their opposing doomsday prophecies. They believe she has a connection to the
freak electrical storm that caused the quake, and to the far more devastating
storm that is yet to come.
Mia wants to trust the enigmatic and alluring Jeremy when he
promises to protect her, but she fears he isn’t who he claims to be. In the
end, the passion and power that brought them together could be their downfall.
When the final disaster strikes, Mia must risk unleashing the full horror of
her strength to save the people she loves, or lose everything.
Her dreams of Rumspringa where now gone, the outside world was no more, gone with it where her dreams of long afternoons enjoying a Coke and going to the movies.
Katie has always been a rebel among the Amish, the elders pay her extra attention. You would think that when the world outside turn deadly that she would obey the elders and not question their decision, but when a life is at stake she will risk everything and everyone to do what is right.
After rescuing Alex a 24 year old Canadian she discovers more about what happened in the outside, if Alex is to be believed the outside world is falling in the hands of vampires and not the shiny ones, no this ruthless creatures have a blood lust and an evil inside of them that the destruction they havoc comes from beyond your gory imagination.
Review
When I heard about this book all I heard was Amish + End of the world + Evil Vampires, it all screamed to me READ ME LIL BERRY READ ME NOW. And how right it was, this book is dark, gory and not something I would call Young Adult, it can fall under that category but I feel that readers that enjoy adult books will enjoy it too, it's one of those book that has a little something for everyone.
I laughed, almost cried and bite my nails with this book, honestly, Laura Bickle is such a tease and an excellent writer. She got me all jumpy, all excited, kinda stressed out (the good kind) for something to happened yes she toyed with me and my feelings but I liked it, it made me feel more a part of the story, more of a secret accomplice to Katie and Alex then an spectator.
Highly recommend this book, and for those fans of this book, it is official this is now a series and we can expect the second book "The Outside" sometime in 2013. If you would like to know more about the book please let me know, I could talk about this book for hours. Rating:
I thought maybe we could discuss a creepy book in honor of all hollows eve, the book is Dark Inside by Jeyn Roberts, this book is really good, if you haven't read it yet and are wondering what it's about come take a look at my of Dark Inside.
Now lets talk about which of this covers makes the best for this book where humanity turns against itself thanks to an old evil that wakes up to bring us down turning our neighbors and loved ones into crazy killing machines. And the four teens we follow on their road to survival.
First we have the original cover by Simon and Schuster:
The first MacMillan cover:
The second MacMillan cover
First of all I like all the covers in different ways, the first cover gets the most creepy/scary points of them all, the second contestant has a visual appeal to itself but sadly I cannot distinguish the boys from the girls and all the voices that show us this world are equally important; the third cover I love for a movie poster and DVD cover, if this book ever got made into a movie or mini-series.
What do you guys think??? Which one do you prefer? Do you dislike any of them? Please share your opinion with us.
By the way guys, this is the cover for the second book, which I just adore
This are books that have been recommended by friends be it friends I know in real life, Goodreads or recommendations I get from San Diego Comic-Com and I've been thinking of reading them but honestly in some of them I've been to much of a coward to start.
#5 Rage Within by Jeyn Roberts
Who recommended it?
Well this book is more of a follow up of last year when I got Dark Inside By Jeyn Roberts at Comic-Con, I know this book doesn't fall right into the zombie category but I've found it's the closest it has, the first book takes us throw the end of the world as we know it and the quick changes 5 teenagers have to do in order to stay alive, I loved Dark Inside and I honestly can't wait to get my hands on Rage Within.
Book description:
Aries, Clementine, Michael, and Mason have survived the first wave of the apocalypse that wiped out most of the world’s population and turned many of the rest into murderous Baggers. Now they’re hiding out in an abandoned house in Vancouver with a ragtag group of fellow teen survivors, trying to figure out their next move. Aries is trying to lead, but it’s hard to be a leader when there are no easy answers and every move feels wrong. Clementine is desperate to find her brother Heath, but it’s impossible to know where he’d be, assuming he’s alive. Michael is haunted by the memories of his actions during his harrowing struggle to survive. And Mason is struggling with something far worse: the fear that he may be a danger to his friends. As the Baggers begin to create a new world order, these four teens will have to trust and rely on each other in order to survive.
Labels: Young Adult, Post-Apocaliptic, Zombies, Science Fiction, Survival, Action, Paranormal.
#4 Breathers by S. G. Browne
Who recommended it?
The author was in a panel at Comic-Con and he was excited promoting his new book "Lucky Bastard" when suddenly we starts to talk that it's a different direction from Breathers, where zombies are fighting in San Francisco for their civil rights and as he kept talking all I could think of was a combination between "I want to go to there" and "shut up and take my money"
Book description:
Meet Andy Warner, a recently deceased every man and newly minted zombie. Resented by his parents, abandoned by his friends, and reviled by a society that no longer considers him human, Andy is having a bit of trouble adjusting to his new existence. But all that changes when he goes to an Undead Anonymous meeting and finds kindred souls in Rita, an impossibly sexy recent suicide with a taste for the formaldehyde in cosmetic products, and Jerry, a twenty-one-year-old car-crash victim with an exposed brain and a penchant for Renaissance pornography. When the group meets a rogue zombie who teaches them the joys of human flesh, things start to get messy, and Andy embarks on a journey of self-discovery that will take him from his casket to the SPCA to a media-driven class-action lawsuit on behalf of the rights of zombies everywhere.
Darkly funny, surprisingly touching, and gory enough to satisfy even the most discerning reader, Breathers is a romantic zombie comedy (rom-zom-com, for short) that will leave you laughing, squirming, and clamoring for more.
Labels: Zombies, Horror, Humor, Supernatural, Urban Fantasy
#3 Feed by Mira Grant
Who recommended it?
I was in a panel that talked about Urban Fantasy and suddenly this swedish woman asks if the authors could help her deffend a program from the university she worked in saying they wanted to shut down their Urban Fantasy program and Mira Grant stands up and says one of the most amazing thing that included "Urban Fantasy is the same as the Grimm stories once where to people living in the eighteen hundreds" and how "Urban Fantasy is a little escape we can give our self's from a world where everything logical and that involves our every day life" she said so much more that I do hope someone was recording it so that we can get our hands on it because she speaks with such passion and conviction that you know she will also translate it to her books.
Book Description:
The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. Now, twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives - the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will get out, even if it kills them
Labels: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Zombie, Horror, Urban Fantasy, Thriller
#2 Graveminder by Melissa Marr
Who recommended it?
This was recommended by the staff from HarperCollins who where nice enough to tell me a little about this book, that combined with Melissa Marr's book "Carnival of Souls" make me even more excited. I mean how many grandmas had a job as cool as Rebekkah's??
Book Description:
Rebekkah Barrow never forgot the tender attention her grandmother, Maylene, bestowed upon the dead of Claysville. While growing up, Rebekkah watched as Maylene performed the same unusual ritual at every funeral: three sips from a small silver flask followed by the words, "Sleep well, and stay where I put you." Now Maylene is gone and Bek must return to the hometown—and the man—she abandoned a decade ago, only to discover that Maylene's death was not natural . . . and there was good reason for her odd traditions. In Claysville, the worlds of the living and the dead are dangerously connected—and beneath the town lies a shadowy, lawless land ruled by the enigmatic Charles, aka Mr. D. From this dark place the deceased will return if their graves are not properly minded. And only the Graveminder, a Barrow woman, and the current Undertaker, Byron, can set things to right once the dead begin to walk.
Labels: Zombie, Adult, Paranormal, Mystery, Urban Fantasy
#1 World War Z
Who recommended it?
This was recommended by a dear friend of mind that said something along the lines "This book is really interesting, here we get to hear about the survivors of the zombie attacks that have taken a toll on our world, it's one of a kind and a most read"
Book Description:
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time.World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.
Ranging from the now infamous village of New Dachang in the United Federation of China, where the epidemiological trail began with the twelve-year-old Patient Zero, to the unnamed northern forests where untold numbers sought a terrible and temporary refuge in the cold, to the United States of Southern Africa, where the Redeker Plan provided hope for humanity at an unspeakable price, to the west-of-the-Rockies redoubt where the North American tide finally started to turn, this invaluable chronicle reflects the full scope and duration of the Zombie War.
Most of all, the book captures with haunting immediacy the human dimension of this epochal event. Facing the often raw and vivid nature of these personal accounts requires a degree of courage on the part of the reader, but the effort is invaluable because, as Mr. Brooks says in his introduction, “By excluding the human factor, aren’t we risking the kind of personal detachment from history that may, heaven forbid, lead us one day to repeat it? And in the end, isn’t the human factor the only true difference between us and the enemy we now refer to as ‘the living dead’?”
Note: Some of the numerical and factual material contained in this edition was previously published under the auspices of the United Nations Postwar Commission.
Eyewitness reports from the first truly global war
“I found ‘Patient Zero’ behind the locked door of an abandoned apartment across town. . . . His wrists and feet were bound with plastic packing twine. Although he’d rubbed off the skin around his bonds, there was no blood. There was also no blood on his other wounds. . . . He was writhing like an animal; a gag muffled his growls. At first the villagers tried to hold me back. They warned me not to touch him, that he was ‘cursed.’ I shrugged them off and reached for my mask and gloves. The boy’s skin was . . . cold and gray . . . I could find neither his heartbeat nor his pulse.” —Dr. Kwang Jingshu, Greater Chongqing, United Federation of China
“‘Shock and Awe’? Perfect name. . . . But what if the enemy can’t be shocked and awed? Not just won’t, but biologically can’t! That’s what happened that day outside New York City, that’s the failure that almost lost us the whole damn war. The fact that we couldn’t shock and awe Zack boomeranged right back in our faces and actually allowed Zack to shock and awe us! They’re not afraid! No matter what we do, no matter how many we kill, they will never, ever be afraid!” —Todd Wainio, former U.S. Army infantryman and veteran of the Battle of Yonkers
“Two hundred million zombies. Who can even visualize that type of number, let alone combat it? . . . For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming all life on Earth.” —General Travis D’Ambrosia, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Labels: Horror, Zombie, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, War, Adult
Another reason you should be reading World War Z is becuase the movie will come out on June 21, 2o13, here is the trailer.
Can't get enough zombies? then continue the zombie walk here
Publication Date: November 1st, 2011 Publisher: Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing ISBN-13: 9781442423510
Synopsis
Some of us say we know what we would do if we where in the middle of an apocalyptic scenario, but do we?
Mason, Michael, Clementine and Aries are about to find out, when they're world changes in a blink of an eye, when they discover they can't trust anyone and that they must do all they can to stay alive.
It all started in a day just like any other, but suddenly an earthquake happened and people started to act strangely, no one saw it coming, but it still happened all the caos and destruction where a false move could mean game over for you and maybe soon enough for all humanity.
