 Yeah. This. Read this. This is another one of those new science fiction books that's getting rave reviews from everybody and that I've been wondering about for some time. I picked it up on my big trip in September and I finally got around to it at the beginning of this month and let me tell you, it's a good book. From page one it's good. As far as a 30 second description goes, really all I need to do is read the two sentences on the back of the book here that describe it. It says, every morning Melody waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointed at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite. But they don't laugh. This is another zombie apocalypse book and you have to wonder, do we need another zombie apocalypse story? Pretty much everything I'm about to say about this book has already been said by Milana over at Impression Blend. I watched her review last night before I recorded this and yeah, I agree with her 100%. This is another zombie apocalypse book. It has a difference. The author understands his science and his science fiction and he's a darn good writer. During the middle of the book it started to fall into the zombie apocalypse cliché. A small group of survivors making their way across the zombie infected wilderness and you stay quiet. You don't touch things. And there's always some Gilligan idiot who breaks those rules. But the author didn't get bogged down in it. He pulled it out and the end of the book, wow. This is one of those books that the premise of the book and during the course of telling the story, the author makes certain promises. Big lofty ideas that could be carried through to really big endings. And a lot of authors set up these kind of things and they don't see the big ending themselves. Somehow they don't see the big picture consequences of their own premise. Or they don't have the guts to do something really outlandish. And the end of the book ends up falling flat and just being mediocre. Not this one. Apparently this writer has written comic books and he's written X-Men comic books in particular. And at the end of this book I was thinking, yeah, yeah I can see X-Men here. There is a movie adaptation of this book. It has not been released in the US. I don't know why. You can easily find the trailer on YouTube. The trailer doesn't do the book justice. So I have no idea what the movie is actually like. If anyone has seen the movie, tell me in the comments. Another unusual thing about this book is that it's written in the first person present, which is unusual. That's not unheard of, but it is unusual and I appreciated that fact. So yeah, I can see why people are nuts about this book. I am too now. For this episode I was going to review The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, which I finished last month. But as soon as I finished this book, I said I have to review this right now. And I'll do Angry Planet next time. See you then. Please remember to press that like button. It helps my videos get seen. And then subscribe so you can come back next time. I do science fiction, book, TV and movie reviews all the time. And please consider becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below.