This is the third book in the Dying to Live series. I really enjoyed the first one. The second one was okay but I didn't like where the story was going. I was wrong and Mr. Paffenroth I am sorry for doubting you. This story picks up after Will, Rachel, Truman and Lucy are exiled. I don't want to give too much away as pretty much anything is a spoiler but I will say Rachel and is sick and the other three man some difficult decisions to save her. New Sparta isn't the savior that they think it is.
Let me say this, while this is a third in a zombie series this does not really feel like a zombie book. While the characters, Truman and Lucy, are both zombies neither feel like it. While this book was completely different then World War Z I look it at the same. World War Z was about survival and I look at this the same way. I felt for the characters quite a bit.
Kim takes the zombie story in a very different way as the zombies becomes basically a different species but not the brainless eating machines that so many stories make them. As much as I didn't like Truman and Lucy in Life Sentence I really liked them in this one. The story arch that each character goes through was amazing, especially Lucy's.
I almost don't want to say this is the third in the series as you don't have to have read the others to enjoy this. It is a different book. I extremely enjoyed it and read it in basically two sittings give or take.
Overall I would give say if you enjoy zombie stories this series is a good one. This one is about survival and almost a commentary on human nature...and not a good one but a true one. What happens in this book could happen in our society.
If there is another book in this series I will pick it up and I am going to try and pick up his book about George A. Romero.
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