Thank you to Macmillan Children's Publishing Group | Feiwel & Friends and NetGalley for allowing me to read this!

I truly enjoyed reading about Flora and her family. Like many apocalypse stories, there is flipping back and forth, but it's more than a direct narrative of Before Apocalypse and During/Main Plot Point. Instead, the sections set in the past tell us more of Flora, allowing a reader to understand her, and learn why she reacts the way she does, to see more of what we're missing, until the end of it is mostly, heartbreakingly, filled in.

Desperate hope, really, is the way I'd describe this book. And it's a very good zombie book, I feel, in that it sets its rules, and sticks to them. I look forward to recommending this to my students!

Engaging and immersive. A recommended purchase for YA and HS collections where apocalyptic fiction is popular.

I can't say that apocalypse books have ever been my favourite, but I really love Racquel Marie's previous books, so I was always going to give it a shot. And as a book about a rabies zombie apocalypse, this was great. I can't say I'll reach for it again, but I'm glad I read it, and I really loved all these characters and their relationships with each other.