The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1) in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Apr 09, 2016 Heather - hturningpages rated it really liked it

Shelves: awesome-audiobooks, loved-it, sci-fi

I pretty much devoured this book. This has a really cool spin on the genre, and I'm not going to be specific because the less you know going into this book the better! I loved the voice of the main character, but I was also surprised at how much my feels towards other characters changed as the story progressed. The fact that one of the most despicable characters at the beginning of the book is the only one talking sense at the end left me pretty conflicted. In some ways I liked it because it was ...more

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Dec 28, 2015 Julianne Dunn rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2016-read-harder

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Oct 22, 2014 Nadine in NY Jones rated it really liked it

Shelves: dystopian-and-post-apocalyptic, lotsa-buzz, zombies

I had no idea that "M. R. Carey" was MIKE CAREY!!! Now I'm even more excited to read this! Happily, it is on hold for me at my library :-)

WARNING - some parts of this review (even parts not hidden by spoiler tags) may count as "spoilers" to some readers. So, if you don't want to know ANYTHING, stop reading this.

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wow. I don't know how I feel about this book because I don't know how I feel. Now I can see why other people were saying that.

FIRST of all, this was ... mostly ... an enjoyable read. I ...more

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Jan 01, 2017 Susan rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2016

Excellent dystopian novel with a twist that you don't catch onto until about halfway through. Well, probably less than halfway through. It's a good twist. Then, of course, there's the rest of the book that relies on that twist, and that part of the dystopia is great as well.

I'm a big fan of reading dystopian novels because I view them as training wheels for how our world is going these days. You should perhaps join me in this, yes? Yes. ...more

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