Yea though we perish, yea though we die, we'll all be together in the sweet by and by...
Fifteen-year-old Ricky Genero is writing a journal of the zombie apocalypse. His high school has burned to the ground, his friends are all either dead or shambling corpses roaming the earth in search of human flesh, and his best friend died saving his six-year-old brother Chuck from a zombie horde. When Chuck is bitten and infected with the zombie virus, Ricky must travel among the walking dead in search of a cure.
WARNING
This YOUNG ADULT novel is mean and nasty and intended for a mature audience. It is absolutely not appropriate for younger readers. All Together Now: A Zombie Story is a gruesome, repugnant tale featuring horrific acts of violence sure to warp young minds.
They moaned in unison, the sound of each harmonizing with the moans of the others so I couldn't tell if the moans were coming from three zombies, or five, or ten. All I knew for sure is they were on the other side of the door.
WHAM!!!
At first I thought it was the sound of a gun, but then it happened again, just above me.
"Sh—" Michelle slapped a hand to Levi's mouth before he could say more.
A corpse's palm smacked against the window glass, fell away, and smacked again.
A second hand smacked the glass, closer to the entrance. Then a third hand started on the other side of the door, so all three hands were smacking in unison.
Michelle bit the fingers on her left hand, but in her right hand our one gun was trained on the glass.
I tightened my grip on my bat.
WHAM!!! WHAM!!! WHAM!!! WHAM!!!
The glass wavered, rippling with each smack, but didn't break.
Yet.
WHAM!!! WHAM!!! WHAM!!! WHAM!!!
Release Date: September 2013
Publisher: Harper Landmark Books
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I have written before about my interest in the zombie genre and this book doesn't fail to get high in my favourites.
I never get particularly worried before reading anything about zombies, I do when I read any new vampire stories because I always think about Twilight. Ugh! As a big fan of The Walking Dead series I never feel worried that the zombie genre will be ruined. There will always be stories of fear, horror and survival but each one is told differently. Or so far that I have read anyway.
Robert Kent's book is different too and that is not a criticism. I liked the fact that this zombie apocalypse came about because of the wrong chemicals in energy drinks. So me drinking Red Bull whilst starting to read this on a trip from London to Manchester by train had definitely made me look at my drink differently. Haha!
I liked the journal type writing but I'm not a fan of going backwards and back to present day too much so some of the flashbacks confused me a bit. There was still enough to keep me gripped throughout and some of the zombie scenes are really quite graphic. There is a warning about it so you are sort of prepared ;-)
I was not prepared for the ending. Not prepared at all. No spoilers on that.
Loved the book and I want more!
Yay! A new zombie book to read =) Thanks for the review!
Thanks for featuring my book and for your very kind words. Glad to have helped pass the time on your train ride:)