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Fighting to Survive (As The World Dies, #2)
by Rhiannon Frater (Goodreads Author)
by Rhiannon Frater (Goodreads Author)
Bonnie's review
bookshelves: eek-the-creepies, zombies-like-brains, adult, dystopian-post-apocalyptic
Nov 08, 11
bookshelves: eek-the-creepies, zombies-like-brains, adult, dystopian-post-apocalyptic
Read from October 31 to November 02, 2011
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The Storyline
Fighting to Survive picks up a few weeks after The First Days left off: Katie and Jenni are helping establish a new life on the fort and working to minimize the ongoing danger of the zombies. Nothing much happens (in my opinion) in regards to the zombie as this book focused mainly on expanding on new characters, the growing of existing relationships, and establishing more problems outside of the zombie issue. The writing was still a bit stilted for me and I still love the zombie action scenes far more than the character interaction scenes.
The Relationships
So I totally get that everyone is living day to day not knowing how much longer one another will survive, but does that give everyone the right to become a bunch of hussies?
“We just decided today,” he explained. “Life is so short. We just don’t’ want to waste time. We’ve been sleeping together in my tent. Might as well make it official and be a family.”
Uhh… okay?
Jenni and Juan were already together in the last book and their relationship steadily progresses until they are eventually living together. Jenni and Juan’s relationship is strange though and I’m not positive whether they actually like each other or not. And I swear… I was going to snap if I hear Loca one more time.
Then there’s Katie and Travis. In the last book Katie kept trying to keep Travis at bay by continuing to remind him that she is in fact lesbian and no she will not be with him. Her reasoning behind this was explained in the last book as she didn’t want to tarnish her memory of her wife Lydia even though she did have feelings for Travis. (view spoiler) I felt that whole storyline and the ending was anticlimactic and definitely inevitable. But… (view spoiler)
Final Thoughts
Reading these books back to back has caused me to become quite cynical. I do plan on finishing up the trilogy but will come back to it at a later date when I’ve managed to forget some of my irritations. I’m hoping the third one has lots of zombie action scenes and EVERYONE gets eaten! hahahaha
The Storyline
Fighting to Survive picks up a few weeks after The First Days left off: Katie and Jenni are helping establish a new life on the fort and working to minimize the ongoing danger of the zombies. Nothing much happens (in my opinion) in regards to the zombie as this book focused mainly on expanding on new characters, the growing of existing relationships, and establishing more problems outside of the zombie issue. The writing was still a bit stilted for me and I still love the zombie action scenes far more than the character interaction scenes.
The Relationships
So I totally get that everyone is living day to day not knowing how much longer one another will survive, but does that give everyone the right to become a bunch of hussies?
“We just decided today,” he explained. “Life is so short. We just don’t’ want to waste time. We’ve been sleeping together in my tent. Might as well make it official and be a family.”
Uhh… okay?
Jenni and Juan were already together in the last book and their relationship steadily progresses until they are eventually living together. Jenni and Juan’s relationship is strange though and I’m not positive whether they actually like each other or not. And I swear… I was going to snap if I hear Loca one more time.
Then there’s Katie and Travis. In the last book Katie kept trying to keep Travis at bay by continuing to remind him that she is in fact lesbian and no she will not be with him. Her reasoning behind this was explained in the last book as she didn’t want to tarnish her memory of her wife Lydia even though she did have feelings for Travis. (view spoiler) I felt that whole storyline and the ending was anticlimactic and definitely inevitable. But… (view spoiler)
Final Thoughts
Reading these books back to back has caused me to become quite cynical. I do plan on finishing up the trilogy but will come back to it at a later date when I’ve managed to forget some of my irritations. I’m hoping the third one has lots of zombie action scenes and EVERYONE gets eaten! hahahaha
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Reading Progress
| 10/31/2011 | page 10 |
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3.0% | "'Tomorrow they would secure the road next to the fort and take over the Dollar Store.' Okay so that line cracked me up to no end." |
| 10/31/2011 | page 46 |
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15.0% | "“Let’s go zombie killing,” Jenni said with a wild grin of delight. - Yeeaahh!!!" |
| 10/31/2011 | page 75 |
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24.0% | "“It's Bubba Wilkins! He has a metal plate in his head,” Jimmy shouted. - *rolls eyes* of course he does." |
| 10/31/2011 | page 142 |
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46.0% | "'She wished a fucking zombie would show up so she could blow its head off. It would make her feel so much better.' Me too Jenni, me too." |
| 11/02/2011 | page 190 |
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62.0% | "Ugh. Who cares what happened to Shane?" 6 comments |
| 11/02/2011 | page 300 |
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98.0% | "Was that last section seriously written from the point of view of the DOG?" 4 comments |
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Oct 30, 2011 09:53am
Oh, are we doing this? ;)
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I thought we were starting today! I haven't actually started yet anyways, won't be able to start till tonight probably.
I thought we were, too! I added it when Bonnie did, but I probably won't be reading until tonight, either. :)
Interestingly enough I thought the action sequences and suspense were better than in the first one, but I'm totally with you on the Katie-Travis story line. I wanted to bang my head on the table during that last chapter.
Oh so you haven't read it yet? I won it in a giveaway and should get it next week I'm so excited to read it. Hopefully nothing too big will have changed so you won't be confused.
