Angela Scott

(Possible Spoiler) I really wanted to give this book 5 stars but...

#1. It was a little slow in the beginning for me and I put it down. But it kept nagging at me to give it a chance, so I picked it back up determined to see it through and also because the ratings were pretty good. Unfortunately for me I didn't actually read the comments under the ratings.

#2. It grew on me till I couldn't put it down. Unfortunately when I reached the end (I checked before I started the book and as far as I could tell this was a standalone book. Some of the other comments have confirmed this for me. I hate starting an incomplete series, then having to wait and wait for the next book.) I was completely dumbfounded when I reached ---THE END---. What the H#$%? Am I stupid? Did I miss something? Is my kindle version missing a chapter? I fell in love with this book and then....nothing. Where are all the answers? I cant believe the author is going to leave me like this, so that means I must be an idiot and somehow missed all the clues, answers, whatever. Maybe I don't have the imagination necessary to read between the lines...blah, blah, blah. I am babbling. Does anyone know the answers? Maybe we aren't supposed to know, like the ending of Shutter Island (was he crazy or wasn't he? At least you had a 50% chance of being right and all the relevant information to make that choice). But if anyone knows anything, such as maybe there will be a sequel, or even your own interpretation I would welcome that information.

I did like this book until the last page. If I had taken my frustration and I admit, anger at the ending into account I would have given it one star, but I didn't.

PS Did anyone notice that Cole repeated Tess's comment (when she was with the other kid that Cole couldn't see) about "apple and bacon", but Tess herself did not notice it. I kept expecting it to hit her but nothing was mentioned. I feel like I should have understood what happened there, but I didn't.… (altro)

I've been looking forward to this sequel for soooo long, like a couple of years long, so my expectations were extremely high.

So needless to say I was very disappointed when this book didn't offer up some of the closure I was looking for. It felt like a tie-over and filler until book three.

The supernatural mysteriousness surrounding Cole was not explained and no explanations about the cause of the disaster or reason for the environmental changes were given at all either. I felt like we should have been enlightened about something at least, but unfortunately that wasn't the case. : (… (altro)

Still Reeling from Anyone?! -4.5 stars...

I listened to the audio version of this last week and I'm still pondering over this book today! This is the perfect book for a buddy or group read. If I would have known it raised so many questions, I would have definitely read this one with a friend so we could bounce theories back and forth.
 
The story starts off with all hell breaking lose with fire etc. raining from the sky and Tess and her dad are running for the bunker that he's built in their back yard. Her brother, Toby, though is nowhere around so Tess's dad leaves her there to go find him. After weeks living in the bunker and they don't return, Tess decides to venture outside for supplies and to find a way to contact her dad. Along the way she befriends another survivor, Cole, who helps her find her dad....
 
I thoroughly enjoyed the main plot of the story and the narrator of the audio was great but I think it would have been good without a couple of the twists and added confusion that the author threw in toward the end. They really just created more questions which wouldn't have been so bad if they were actually answered. (*Minor Spoilers*) I'm still asking myself today:  Wtf was up with the ending? Was Cole real or not real? Why couldn't Cole see the guy at the mall and vice-versa? Why couldn't anyone at the bunker see Cole? Why was Tess affected and Cole wasn't? Why was Callie the kitten unaffected? What prevented Tess's dad & her brother Toby from coming back for her at the beginning? What caused Tess's dad to start preparing for "doomsday?" Who were the other "doomsday preparers" that Tess's dad was affiliated with at the mountain bunker? What part did the government play and why? And the list goes on....
 
So yeah, if you are planning to read or listen to this, do it with a buddy or else drive yourself nuts trying to analyze it on your own! … (altro)

So, zombies in the wild west. Not really much to say, it's exactly what you would expect: a badass YA heroine type, with a secret, who may just be the answer to the entire zombie problem, but set in a straight out of Zane Grey type old west setting.

I love westerns, always have, and I'm fond of zombie stories, so this was fun. It's fairly dark, lots of deaths and doom, and although marketed as YA, it didn't read as one to me.

It starts out with Red on her own and on the run from bounty hunters. She's heading west ahead of the zombie plague that claimed all her family except one brother, who she hopes to find on the trail. Then she somewhat unwillingly picks up Trace, who has ulterior motives--he's seen her wanted poster--but slowly (not too insta-lovey) falls for her. They also pick up Wen, a chinese-american also on the trail--VERY nice to see some diversity, and he's not written as any kind of stereotype either. And eventually a gaggle of orphaned kids. Always on their trail are the zombies, and the bounty hunters, ahead is only hope and the unknown.

I could nitpick the setting a bit, there's the odd anachronism, especially in the dialog, but I was enjoying the story enough they didn't bother me too much. Which is great, because that kind of thing usually pulls me right out.… (altro)