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I'm a hardcore reader and more of a casual blogger but love writing about the books I love in Hope's of others reaching them, or finding others with similar interests to mine.

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My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses
Lawrence J. Spagnola, Steven Adler
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth

The Forest of Hands and Teeth  - Carrie Ryan **SPOILERS AHEAD**

This is not a zombie book. This is the story of a girl and a few friends living in a world full of zombies. The zombies are only there to kill off the characters and create drama. That way it's totally natural for the MC to go totally crazy.

I didn't like Mary, at all. I thought she was selfish, without any reason for it. I didn't see how the two boys, Travis and Harry liked her at all, but somehow they both love her, despite her crap personality. Maybe it's due to the fact that everyone else but a kid named Jacob, a dog named Argos, and Mary's brother Jed, is dead to the zombies. This way, the MC has something to cry and whine about.

They kill off Mary and Jed's mother in the first few chapters. Then she spends a ridiculous amount of time with the Sisterhood, but all this is unnecessary and pointless, other than to establish the fact that she's in love with Travis.

The whole mystery with the roman numerals and all, that's not mysterious at all. Seriously, I'd think that most people know these, and when some gates are marked with numbers, these numbers must lead to something. I wonder what? Well since Mary loves the ocean (and nothing else, except she does realize she loves Travis AFTER HE DIES), why not number the gates to lead right to the ocean. Wanna guess what happened?

Travis dies, Jed dies trying to save Mary's crazy ass, and Harry, Cass, Jacob, and the dog are still in the fences and never to be seen again. Mary gets her ocean though, even if it cost so many lives. Why they even bothered with her it is still unknown to me. Then she finds someone that lives around the ocean and walks off with him.

UGH THIS BOOK WHY DID I EVEN READ THIS I DON'T EVEN KNOW. ASDFGHJKL; The good things about this book, was probably that Mary was a little insane. The POV wasn't that great, and if I would've gotten past her selfishness and how everyone did everything for her, I might have liked it more. And if the zombies actually did more than stand around and cling to fences and what not, this could have been so much better.