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Last book I read was a zombie novel with the best title ever, by Sarah Lyons Fleming. Zombie apocalypse, efforts of survivors to make it through. I’ve got a few more of Fleming’s books and they’re not bad, well written, although in present tense which I don’t enjoy reading that much. The other books follow a related group of characters doing the traditional thing of bugging out from New York City to the imagined haven in the woods.
This series follows those who don’t make it out before the authorities blow all the bridges linking Manhattan with the rest of the city. These include one of the viewpoint characters, Sylvie, who is a difficult, psychologically-damaged person with trust issues. All this *before* the end of the world comes along. Even so, she manages to start playing a word-a-day game with another character, Eric, who likes Sylvie in spite of her best efforts. The first one to use the word in unforced conversation that day wins a point.
One day the word is “mordacious.” Here are its two definitions:
adjective formal
1. denoting or using biting sarcasm or invective.
2. (of a person or animal) given to biting.
Both the characters score a point that day. The word is just too perfect, and the game becomes a sort of running joke amidst the quite real dangers and emotional suffering which the group endures. This is also one of the few zombie books to address the question for all of us who take some sort of medication to keep our brains in order: What do we do when the pills run out?!
For a zombie novel; lightweight, almost zombie chick lit, but enjoyable nonetheless.
This series follows those who don’t make it out before the authorities blow all the bridges linking Manhattan with the rest of the city. These include one of the viewpoint characters, Sylvie, who is a difficult, psychologically-damaged person with trust issues. All this *before* the end of the world comes along. Even so, she manages to start playing a word-a-day game with another character, Eric, who likes Sylvie in spite of her best efforts. The first one to use the word in unforced conversation that day wins a point.
One day the word is “mordacious.” Here are its two definitions:
adjective formal
1. denoting or using biting sarcasm or invective.
2. (of a person or animal) given to biting.
Both the characters score a point that day. The word is just too perfect, and the game becomes a sort of running joke amidst the quite real dangers and emotional suffering which the group endures. This is also one of the few zombie books to address the question for all of us who take some sort of medication to keep our brains in order: What do we do when the pills run out?!
For a zombie novel; lightweight, almost zombie chick lit, but enjoyable nonetheless.