A review by lea_talisa
Dying to Love by Reese Rivers

emotional inspiring tense fast-paced

4.25

„I snuggle deeper under the comforter, trying to find the will to get up and face another day but sometimes the emptiness of my existence makes me want to just not bother. Waking up to this emptiness, this desire to just quit, is becoming more and more frequent as the days go by. As I stare up at the ceiling, I wonder if today is the day that I'll finally find the courage to end it all.“

Already the very first few sentences of the book made me anticipate a fairly deep and emotional book despite its shortness. Considering this and the rest of the book there also should be TW for depression beside the suicidal thoughts. I liked how the trauma was pictured and processed.

I love how thoughtful and caring the boys are with Kelsey. The accept her struggles and try to help her ease them (more or less successful at times).
“There are no hard edges to her but there are cracks. Cracks we all want to fill with tending and care to make her whole again.“

That last chapter was absolutely unexpected I mean there was no introduction telling the readers that this is the epilogue nor was there a time jump mentioned when there obviously happened one. Confused me slightly at first but all in all it’s a cute ending.

In my opinion the book actually has potential to be longer like about a hundred more pages showing the settled life of the five and maybe feature some more serious problems from outside the fence.
This was my first zombie/ apocalypse book I’ve read and considering this I find it to be surprisingly pretty great.
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