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Work InformationThicker Than Blood by Madeline Sheehan
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  Library_Breeder | Apr 28, 2023 |   Really enjoyed this book went in a totally different direction story wise than I thought, liesel and Evelyn were such totally different characters with such different strengths they just complimented each other. With the help of Jami and Alex they escape there present circumstances with tragic Consequence's don't want to say to much in regard to spoilers but will say keep the tissues at the ready as you will need them, am looking forward to reading book 2 and wondering how E can ever redeem himself gripping read kept my attention all the way through. (  ) carpathian1974 | Nov 7, 2019 | Really enjoyed this book went in a totally different direction story wise than I thought, liesel and Evelyn were such totally different characters with such different strengths they just complimented each other. With the help of Jami and Alex they escape there present circumstances with tragic Consequence's don't want to say to much in regard to spoilers but will say keep the tissues at the ready as you will need them, am looking forward to reading book 2 and wondering how E can ever redeem himself gripping read kept my attention all the way through. ( ) carpathian1974 | Nov 7, 2019 | FGMAMTC Blog #TopReads2015 Interview Excerpt Reveal FGMAMTC Blog Review Interview While reading this book I felt: anger, sadness, fear, love, grief and everything was so damn touching. It was super easy to become attached to the characters, to love them, to hate the ones that wronged them. If you want a very well written story that doesn't pull any punches, this is the one for you. It has happened, the zombie apocalypse that everyone has feared. The disease spreads rapidly covering the sufferers in blisters while blood seeps from their bodies until they die only to rise as a rotting monster with the sole purpose of devouring human flesh. Two best friends, Leisel and Evelyn, have seen so many die this way. They are just two decent girls trying to find a place to survive in this new world, a world where the cruel prey on the weak and women are property. There were only so many times a person could be beat down, again and again and again, before they broke entirely. Thicker Than Blood has a full action-packed storyline with an 'out of the frying pan and into the fire' mentality. Through it all, we see Evelyn and Leisel constantly supporting each other. When she stumbled, I stumbled; when she fell, I fell. We were in this together; she was all I had left. They do happen upon good people occasionally. Two great men are Alex and Jami. I instantly fell in love with them both. In a time when a woman's fate is determine by the whim of the man possessing her, finding honorable men becomes a rarity. Both Alex and Jami are gems. ♥ I could not put this book down (I actually stayed up all night reading and didn't shower the next day so that I didn't have to take my eyes off it). The plot is realistic to how the story would evolve if true. The reader is not babied. At the same time, the story does resonate with the readers humanity. It isn't straight up horror, but it isn't a fairytale either. The pain, the suffering, the struggle, it was never ending, much like the barrage of bullets I'd put into that man the night before, like the number of times I'd driven that blade into Lawrence's body, like the amount of tears I'd shed. But through it all there is love and promise which can give a person strength like nothing else can. "I love you, Lei." If you're looking for erotica or romance this isn't for you. If you want something with a bit blood and gore that pulls your heartstrings, Thicker Than Blood is a must read. ***Copy given in exchange for an honest review*** toni FangirlMoments and My Two Cents FULL REVIEW and interview CAN BE FOUND AT http://fangirlmomentsandmytwocents.blogspot.com/2015/01/thicker-than-blood-by-ma... (  ) ToniFGMAMTC | Jan 19, 2017 | FGMAMTC Blog #TopReads2015 Interview Excerpt Reveal FGMAMTC Blog Review Interview While reading this book I felt: anger, sadness, fear, love, grief and everything was so damn touching. It was super easy to become attached to the characters, to love them, to hate the ones that wronged them. If you want a very well written story that doesn't pull any punches, this is the one for you. It has happened, the zombie apocalypse that everyone has feared. The disease spreads rapidly covering the sufferers in blisters while blood seeps from their bodies until they die only to rise as a rotting monster with the sole purpose of devouring human flesh. Two best friends, Leisel and Evelyn, have seen so many die this way. They are just two decent girls trying to find a place to survive in this new world, a world where the cruel prey on the weak and women are property. There were only so many times a person could be beat down, again and again and again, before they broke entirely. Thicker Than Blood has a full action-packed storyline with an 'out of the frying pan and into the fire' mentality. Through it all, we see Evelyn and Leisel constantly supporting each other. When she stumbled, I stumbled; when she fell, I fell. We were in this together; she was all I had left. They do happen upon good people occasionally. Two great men are Alex and Jami. I instantly fell in love with them both. In a time when a woman's fate is determine by the whim of the man possessing her, finding honorable men becomes a rarity. Both Alex and Jami are gems. ♥ I could not put this book down (I actually stayed up all night reading and didn't shower the next day so that I didn't have to take my eyes off it). The plot is realistic to how the story would evolve if true. The reader is not babied. At the same time, the story does resonate with the readers humanity. It isn't straight up horror, but it isn't a fairytale either. The pain, the suffering, the struggle, it was never ending, much like the barrage of bullets I'd put into that man the night before, like the number of times I'd driven that blade into Lawrence's body, like the amount of tears I'd shed. But through it all there is love and promise which can give a person strength like nothing else can. "I love you, Lei." If you're looking for erotica or romance this isn't for you. If you want something with a bit blood and gore that pulls your heartstrings, Thicker Than Blood is a must read. ***Copy given in exchange for an honest review*** toni FangirlMoments and My Two Cents FULL REVIEW and interview CAN BE FOUND AT http://fangirlmomentsandmytwocents.blogspot.com/2015/01/thicker-than-blood-by-ma... ( ) ToniFGMAMTC | Jan 19, 2017 | no reviews | add a review
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Leisel and Evelyn lost everything. Husbands. Families. Friends. Lives that made sense. All they had left was each other, and a friendship that could withstand anything...even an apocalypse. Until one fateful night, the marginal safety they'd come to rely on comes to a vicious and brutal end, only to find themselves face-to-face with a much altered, much crueler life. Traveling across a broken and infection-ridden country, they find everything comes at a price-especially safety, the cost of which could very well strip them of the one thing they've tried so hard to cling to, their humanity. Yet along with all the trials they're forced to endure, there's also hope in the form of love. But in such a savage world, is there room for love? In a place of nightmares-made-reality, where the living should be feared far more than the dead, an unbreakable friendship and a love amongst all odds can mean the difference between life and death. No library descriptions found. |
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It's not a zombie book, it's about a couple of characters stumbling around trying to stay alive in hopes of getting somewhere safe to make whatever life they can 5 years or so after the zombie apocalypse takes out humanity. Pockets of society have emerged, some like Mad-Max and some like The Truman Show. The end is always the same, women have been reduced to a commodity and men take what they want. A woman needs protection from a man. Anyhow, this book was ok, I read it and the next one - which was much more romance than zombie, but this one was ok.
I pretty much read it because I got the library loan and it became a point of stubborness that I was going to finish it.
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