The beginning started out fairly normal. I was surprised though, that the zombies appeared rather early on in the story. The first description of the zombies made me cringe and my heart thumping.

Christopher has a knack for describing the emotions and expressions of people as they find out about the 'Uprising' endemic. He describes the zombie attacks with great detail and gore, too. I usually HATE anything related to zombies (I have a fear for them), but somehow this book sort of 'drew me in', if you will. There was something about this book when I saw it in a fair that although I had originally picked it up and put it back on the shelves, I was somehow drawn to it and ended up buying it.

It might be just me, but I was craving more zombie scenes. Understandably though, a huge chunk of the book writes about how the people keep themselves alive (or not). I got so engrossed in this book that I jumped about an inch in the air at the sound of someone opening my room door.

I was really eager to find out about how the zombies would be stopped, and to be honest, I was expecting the little knit of survivors (Jack, Matt, Sara, Noah, Tania & Zack) to survive through the whole thing (ain't gonna say more to spoil it!), but yeah.

All in all, it's a very gripping story where the zombies are involved. Just wished there was more zombie action, though. ;) ( )

This book was an interesting blend of supernatural horror and good ole’ zombie apocalypse. This was well written and hard to put down, I read it in two sittings. The story really explores the question of what people will do to survive. It also looks at the value of saving one person’s life who you know against saving thousands that you don’t know.

The book jumps between a lot of different POVs and it was a little hard to keep track of everyone at first. However, this ended up working well for the book. All the different POVs ended up coming together nicely into one cohesive story.

Overall this was a well done and engaging read. I would recommend to those who enjoy post-apocalyptic/survival types of stories. ( )

This YA zombie book went under my radar, but I happened upon it and was very pleasantly surprised. It is a book for older teens, as most of the characters are college age. It is graphic in the way a zombie book should be. Even though the apocalypse is started by a seance, the zombie uprising is very Romero-ish. I loved the multi-character perspective that jumps from person to person, it kept me on the edge of my seat. Many of the characters were interesting, not necessarily likeable all the time, but their different personalities were appealing to read about which kept the pace moving. ( )

This YA zombie book went under my radar, but I happened upon it and was very pleasantly surprised. It is a book for older teens, as most of the characters are college age. It is graphic in the way a zombie book should be. Even though the apocalypse is started by a seance, the zombie uprising is very Romero-ish. I loved the multi-character perspective that jumps from person to person, it kept me on the edge of my seat. Many of the characters were interesting, not necessarily likeable all the time, but their different personalities were appealing to read about which kept the pace moving. ( )

When I first saw this on a library Zombie list, I was sure it had been mislabeled simply because the title didn't bring Zombies to mind. The blurb is what did it for me. Golden seemed to have a truly unique concept as to the origins of the Zombies.The idea of Zombies being brought back by a seance only made this even creepier for me, solidifying my absolute certainty that I will never be involved in any seance or use a Ouija board.

These Zombies truly are an uprising, brought back to speak to their living relatives, to gain closure, but their bodies are empty, and their pure souls gone for good. At first they seem pretty typical, simply saying things like "I'm so empty" or "Hungry". It after the Zombies have been around a bit longer that they turn from hungry to vicious. Their spirits hunger to see those familiar to them, and they seek out their loved ones, and it's this same awareness that allows them to remember details of relationships and try to use that to gain access to the flesh their bodies crave. One of the saddest scenes is where a father dies and rises as a zombie, trying to trick his daughter into letting him in and when she does he starts berating her for the choices she made in life.

The violence in this story isn't overwhelming, but Golden also doesn't water it down for us. We get what we need to in order to understand the horror of what they are seeing. There are moments where the state of the Zombies and what they are doing is important to the story and he goes with it, giving us the blood and gore that Zombies bring with them. At others, he keeps it simple and focuses on the emotional ride the characters are on. It's a wonderful balance.

The only aspect of the novel that I didn't like was the constant changes in point of view. I didn't mind the different groups of people, but there were so many main characters it was hard to connect with some of them, in fact with the characters Nate and Matt, I kept having to go back to where they were first introduced in order to figure out who was who. I would have preferred if Golden had picked one character from each group to focus on. ( )