Leigh Radford (2)

Radford's writing is impressive and beautiful. For that I rated this four stars.

The novel starts post-zombie outbreak, following Kesta, a doctor and scientist hiding a dangerous secret - her infected husband is still alive and chained in her flat. Desperately racing to find a cure, Kesta becomes increasingly erratic and unpredictable as she tries to hang on to the man she loves.

It is a beautiful, heartbreaking novel of grief. What it is not is a horror-fueled zombie nightmare. Just know show more that going in...

The story drags a little in the middle, the book perhaps a bit too long to support the plot. Again though, very well-written. show less

I was skeptical about this book because I don't usually care for zombie stories, but One Yellow Eye really broke the zombie survival story mold. This book is really more of a pandemic fiction.

In terms of characters, I really love that Kesta and Dudley are structured as natural foils for the first half of the book, challenging where the line in the sand is with science and what it means to play God. Kesta's surname being Shelley is also a cute nod to the similarity to both her and show more Frankenstein's circumstances.

The book features strong themes about grief, love, and the nature of life.

"Living was an experiment she couldn't control and wouldn't try to." show less

so I usually avoid zombie books, but I liked the approach this one took. we weren't stuck in the apocalypse but were following one woman trying to cure her husband of the virus. the writing is great, and this is really just heartbreaking. I thought the explanation behind the virus was fascinating too.

….heartbreaking