A review by jesslyntimm
Passing Strange by Daniel Waters
4.0
This book was surprisingly a lot better than I had imagined. Passing Strange is mostly in Karen DeSonne's point of view but switches between 1st and 3rd perspective. Which I found a little annoying.
It takes place almost RIGHT after the second book, Kiss Of Life. We find out what happens to Karen after she was shot. The book goes through a journey leaving off from the 2nd book. Most of the conflict revolves around the Guttridge death and Pete's crazy psycho clan thing he has goin' on called One Life.
Although I found One Life slightly disturbing, it didn't occur to me that this clan was such a huge part of the plot. Pete is the Reverend's favorite, which calls for Pete to do everything he asks. Which includes killing all zombies (He even has a list). Pete has such a huge roll in this book. He goes through an a huge time period where I thought he wasn't going to come back from Crazy Town. Towards the end, he apologizes to everyone and I thought he was fine and maybe normal? But, nooo, things changed. . . .
Overall, this book had several boring parts to be honest. But it also had very suspenseful and mysterious parts to it that made you not want to put it down.
This book could be considered a stand-alone but it would probably confuse several in some areas.
It takes place almost RIGHT after the second book, Kiss Of Life. We find out what happens to Karen after she was shot. The book goes through a journey leaving off from the 2nd book. Most of the conflict revolves around the Guttridge death and Pete's crazy psycho clan thing he has goin' on called One Life.
Although I found One Life slightly disturbing, it didn't occur to me that this clan was such a huge part of the plot. Pete is the Reverend's favorite, which calls for Pete to do everything he asks. Which includes killing all zombies (He even has a list). Pete has such a huge roll in this book. He goes through an a huge time period where I thought he wasn't going to come back from Crazy Town. Towards the end, he apologizes to everyone and I thought he was fine and maybe normal? But, nooo, things changed. . . .
Overall, this book had several boring parts to be honest. But it also had very suspenseful and mysterious parts to it that made you not want to put it down.
This book could be considered a stand-alone but it would probably confuse several in some areas.