A review by shilo1364
Special Dead by Patrick Freivald
3.0
This was a good follow-up to Twice Shy.
(disclosure: I received an ARC of this ebook via librarything)
I was hesitant to read this after finishing Twice Shy, and that ending! Eesh. This book started out slow. Too slow, perhaps - I felt that the pace really dragged (no pun intended) for the first half or so. Then it picked up, and things started coming together and becoming really interesting. Freivald does like to drop the ending twist on you in the last page or so! There were a few cosmetic errors - missing words like 'that', an acronym that got mashed with 'a' when a space was removed. I forget what it was, but the change made it pretty funny and nonsensical. I liked how the faceless guards slowly developed personalities. The story was definitely well-executed. That said, zombie novels still definitely aren't my thing, and I won't read this again (and certainly wouldn't have bought it). That's a matter of personal taste though. Kudos to Freivald for keeping me as interested as I was in Ani and her friends for the two novels.
(disclosure: I received an ARC of this ebook via librarything)
I was hesitant to read this after finishing Twice Shy, and that ending! Eesh. This book started out slow. Too slow, perhaps - I felt that the pace really dragged (no pun intended) for the first half or so. Then it picked up, and things started coming together and becoming really interesting. Freivald does like to drop the ending twist on you in the last page or so! There were a few cosmetic errors - missing words like 'that', an acronym that got mashed with 'a' when a space was removed. I forget what it was, but the change made it pretty funny and nonsensical. I liked how the faceless guards slowly developed personalities. The story was definitely well-executed. That said, zombie novels still definitely aren't my thing, and I won't read this again (and certainly wouldn't have bought it). That's a matter of personal taste though. Kudos to Freivald for keeping me as interested as I was in Ani and her friends for the two novels.