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♥ Becky  22
SO scary!!!
I'm not sure whether I should give it 4 or 5 stars, but I had fun reading it, so I'm gonna go ahead and give it 5 stars.

This is one of the scariest books I have ever read. And I love scary stuff, so that's great.
Creepy, scary, awesome.

What annoyed me a bit, was the way people, especially siblings, behaved towards each other in this story. Jed treats Mary like shit for most of the book, and Harry and Travis are so...I don't know. They don't really act like brother, in my opinion. M
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Tina ♥ Bookaholic
English Review:
The first book in ‚The Forest of Hands and Teeth’ series kidnaps the readers in a surreal dystopia, in a world which could come straight from a horror movie. The story is told in the present by Mary, who lives in a village in the middle of a wood which is surrounded by a fence and the Forest of Hands and Teeth. The fence is there to protect the people in the village from the inhabitants of the wood who are deadly.

Who still couldn’t figure out from the name of the book… at this i
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Elwen
Nach einem etwas klischeebeladenem Start nimmt die Geschichte in der zweiten Hälfte gut Fahrt auf und die Charaktere entwickeln sich in interessante Richtungen. Die Zombies sind klassisch dargestellt und auch für zarte Gemüter soweit verkraftbar. Das Schicksal einiger Personen allerdings vielleicht nicht so...
Schade, dass an manchen Stellen die Logik und die bereits angesprochenen Klischees (Liebesdreieck, fanatisch religiöse Schwesternschaft, ...) den Lesegenuss etwas bremsen, aber spätestens g
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Martina
Aug 31, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Ich hätte gerne die vollen 5 Sterne vergeben, aber die vielen losen Enden zum Schluss streichen leider einen Punkt, nachdem ich erfahren habe, dass Teil 2 und 3 andere Geschichten sind :(

Ansonsten genial - sehr stimmungsvoll!
Und die wohl egoistischste Heldin die mir je in einem Buch untergekommen ist!!
Katrin
Für mich eine Mischung aus The Walking Dead und dem Film The Village :-)
DaJa
Oct 29, 2012 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2014, not-mine
Einfach nur schlecht
Lisi
Apr 08, 2009 marked it as keep-in-mind
selfie
Jun 13, 2010 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Carly
Feb 19, 2011 rated it liked it
Shelves: zombies, ya
Marie R.
Mar 12, 2011 marked it as to-read
Steffi
Jul 17, 2011 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: read-2013
2.5/5.0
Rishu
Feb 12, 2012 marked it as ungelesen-weggegeben  ·  review of another edition
Biene
Jan 28, 2014 marked it as wunschliste  ·  review of another edition
Nenatie
Jul 06, 2015 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: unread
Grumpz
Apr 10, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: new-2016
Avamuc
Jan 27, 2017 marked it as to-read
Yuli
Mar 29, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Tales_Corner
Oct 25, 2017 marked it as wishlist