I’m not normally a fan of post apolocolyptic zombie novels, but this one is so good. Technically they’re not zombies; they are ‘hungries’. Twenty years ago, humanity was infected by a variant of fungus that causes people to lose their minds and eat human flesh, thereby becoming hungries.
The small number of remaining humans are heavily guarded by the military, who also perform tests on subjects like ten year old Melanie. Melanie is an intelligent second generation hungry and she is kept under tight control in a prison until the base is invaded by hungries and she and four humans flee.
This is disturbing, compelling, thought provoking literature and everybody character is well drawn. I particularly love the shock ending. It forces you to question your assumptions. Why do we assume that, in this scenario, the survival of humanity is the right ending? Do humans deserve to survive, or should we evolve? Discuss, after reading this book.
