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June 24th 2008
by Feiwel & Friends
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Hardcover, 240 pages
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0312372981
(isbn13: 9780312372989)
description
<DIV><DIV><DIV>From the moment Hannah Sanders arrived in town, she felt there was something wrong.
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Read in March, 2008
recommends it for:
tween girls in mtv-related identity crises
creepy (but sometimes plodding) tween metaphor for the homogenization of middle america; not overtly political except in the high-school politics way, but with a protagonist who hates cops... you can't help but see it. edgy enough to hand to your niece for cool points, vanilla enough to look her dad in the eye while you do it. also, amazing cover design.
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Read in October, 2008
As another fan of zombies and YA lit, I've been looking forward to reading this book all summer, but I was terribly disappointed and frustrated by the wasted potential.
The author does a good job from the beginning evoking a sense of unease about Hannah, her father, and their new home in Maplecrest. Part of this mood comes from the hints that Hannah's father has a dark past as a former police officer. A dark past that is brought up every time Hannah mentions her dad, moving, or police officer...more
The author does a good job from the beginning evoking a sense of unease about Hannah, her father, and their new home in Maplecrest. Part of this mood comes from the hints that Hannah's father has a dark past as a former police officer. A dark past that is brought up every time Hannah mentions her dad, moving, or police officer...more
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Read in August, 2008
James, Brian. 2008. Zombie Blondes.
I loved this book. I just LOVED this book. It was just so readable. Compelling I guess is the proper word for it. I was just hooked from the very beginning. "There aren't any rules to running away from your problems. No checklist of things to cross off. No instructions. Eeny, meeny, pick a path and go. That's how my dad does it anyway because apparently there's no age limit to running away, either." Our narrator, a teen girl named Hannah Sanders...more
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recommends it for:
high school
Creepy! Definitely not the book to read when you're home alone on a dark and stormy night....
Hannah and her father move around a lot, so Hannah is kind of an expert on being the new girl. Her newest home is Maplecrest, a tiny town where the cheerleaders rule the school and everyone else is just wallpaper. Seems like every other place Hannah's lived, until her new friend Lukas warns Hannah that the pretty and popular cheerleaders are actually undead cannibals that need fresh blood in order t...more
Hannah and her father move around a lot, so Hannah is kind of an expert on being the new girl. Her newest home is Maplecrest, a tiny town where the cheerleaders rule the school and everyone else is just wallpaper. Seems like every other place Hannah's lived, until her new friend Lukas warns Hannah that the pretty and popular cheerleaders are actually undead cannibals that need fresh blood in order t...more
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Read in June, 2008
Hannah has just moved with her father to a new town AGAIN. She can’t understand how her father doesn’t understand that he can’t run from his problems. Once she gets settled someplace they seem to get into a financial situation that her father would run away from rather than solve. It never seems to work. Her father promises that Maplecrest is going to be different. Boy was her ever right – just not in the way he meant.
Hannah is used to being the new girl in school. She has made...more
Hannah is used to being the new girl in school. She has made...more
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This book contained fragments upon fragments upon fragments that almost made the English teacher in me want to lash out at the page like the blonde zombie cheerleaders in this book... It would be enjoyable for some, but there seemed to be no real "meat" to the story.
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Not quite sure what to say about this YA novel. Just didn’t give me quite enough. Not sure if it’s horror or romance or what. The ending climax came suddenly and the ending leaves many unanswered questions yet it does leave room for a sequel.
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Read in July, 2008
I was thoroughly disappointed with this book. You know that cardinal saying in writing, "show don't tell?" Well, this book is nothing but telling. Hardly any dialog of value. The critical moments in the book were washed over with description of the event instead of the event itself. One thing that bothered me to all end was the fact that despite Hannah's uber-perceptive qualities of those around her, she continually dismisses the bad things people do to her. Plus the ending is weak. It...more
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Read in October, 2008
Zombies are the new vampires. This was more "horror" than I thought it would be...I guess I thought it might have more trenchant social commentary, but it just had the same old high-school-movie-clique-bashing (which I LOVE, btw)...so it ended up being a fun horror flick. Lots of creepy foreshadowing, a slightly-less-than-aware protagonist - that did actually did tap into a teen girl's STRONG desire to fit in (despite abuse, etc...in this case, at all costs...I did want to throttle ...more
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Read in July, 2008
Hannah and her dad move around a lot. He’s running from creditors and can’t seem to hold a job. When they arrive in Maplecrest, Dad says it’s going to be different this time. On Hannah’s first day of high school she sees how very different it’s going to be. The popular girls are way prettier than normal. The jocks are more brutal. Everyone has blonde hair and blue eyes. The only kid who will talk to her is one of the freaks and she soon realizes what a freak he is when he starts...more
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Read in September, 2008
recommends it for:
teens who like Twilight
This book would make a great cheesy teen movie. The story was OK, but the ending was way over the top and reminded me of Dawn of the Dead or something like that.
Another problem that I had was the over use of similes and metaphors. Man if I had a dime for every sketchy comparison made in this novel... Some of them were good, but some were so ridiculous that it reminded me of a writing exercise where a teacher told kids they had to have so many metaphors in their writing assignment.
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Another problem that I had was the over use of similes and metaphors. Man if I had a dime for every sketchy comparison made in this novel... Some of them were good, but some were so ridiculous that it reminded me of a writing exercise where a teacher told kids they had to have so many metaphors in their writing assignment.
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Read in July, 2008
As a huge fan of the "zombie genre," I can't say that this necessarily had an impact on my opinion of ZB. I tend to think of zomb-lit being a bit more apocalyptic rather than a microcosmic outbreak of the undead! Anyway, the title alone, and the promise of some tense moments will drive teens to the book. I'll look forward to finding a couple kids who've read this book though, and getting their thoughts - are they zombie fans to begin with? Horror fans? Was this satire or a comment on t...more
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Read in September, 2008
The whole point behind this book is "Conformity is death, and non-conformists shall be killed by conformity". The whole book reeks of that, down to all the cheerleaders changing their names to all begin with "M"...which pissed me off cuz I could barely remember who was who (yeah yeah that was the point, I get it). Also, it bothered me that you never got an explanation as to how this all started in the first place.
This started out promising, and it kept the foreboding fee...more
This started out promising, and it kept the foreboding fee...more
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Being the big fan of both zombies and YA books, I was really looking forward to reading this. However, it just didn't really work for me. The pacing was painfully slow, and there just was just too much build up about something being wrong in the town...which you were already aware of if you read the description and title of the book.
I'm curious to know if people who are not already a fan of zombies and the such will like this book a little bit more.
I'm curious to know if people who are not already a fan of zombies and the such will like this book a little bit more.
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Read in October, 2008
One of those more literarily written teen books, but author's skill at forming sentences doesn't make up for inertness of plot, boring main character.
Hannah's dad moves them from town to town, and the latest one is weird bc 1/2 the house are empty, there's a creepy sheriff, and all the popular kids are blonde. Her new friend Lukas says they're zombies. But Hannah doesn't care, she wants to be one of them.
Hannah's dad moves them from town to town, and the latest one is weird bc 1/2 the house are empty, there's a creepy sheriff, and all the popular kids are blonde. Her new friend Lukas says they're zombies. But Hannah doesn't care, she wants to be one of them.
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Read in July, 2008
Look at this cover! I wish I could say more than it was okay. There were some superb moments...but that's what they were...moments. I like the idea, I like Lukas, and the I enjoy the disfunctional family where the mom leaves, but there was too much repetition, and little going deeper. I want to shop it out on some of the kids though, and see what they think!
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Solid teen zombie fiction--creepy, but not quite exactly scary. True horror fans may be disappointed by the minimal amount of actual flesh-eating that goes on, but I was okay with that. Hannah is not the most intriguing protagonist in all of literature, but you know. It's a zombie book.
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Zombie Blondes, which is set in High School is the more traditional horror type book, where you know from the title what’s going on, but the main character doesn’t, so the story takes a while to build and get towards the brain eating, and…it ends like a real zombie book should.
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Kind of stupid, actually really stupid, but I will admit it kept me interested all the way up to the end, but its like a bad teen horror movie warning you about the dangers of wanting to be popular, ooooh....ugh...
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