I thought TW might kill me when she realized I reserved book two in the Forest of Hands and Teeth series… she really didn’t love the first book. But – as we listened to Dead Tossed Waves on audio, she was the one most likely to turn off the radio and turn on the CD. Maybe it helped that the reader was different? And the story was about Mary’s daughter and not Mary? Then again – the writing was the same. Imagine a YA book about Zombies aka the Unconsecrated aka the Mudo written by Rebecca… yea. It’s like that. Wonderfully written but OMG you just want to shake her and say get on with it already. Stop with the flowery writing and the over-thinking, over-writing and just tell the story already. When the writing gets in the way of the story, it’s a problem and that’s what happens in all of Carrie Ryan’s work.
That doesn’t stop me from reserving book three though. The next one appears to be about Catcher and Annah… and the cover has another dead-looking girl on the front (misleading since the main characters don’t ever seem to die or even become unconsecrated…)