The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1) in The Perks Of Being A Book Addict

Jun 17, 2017 Christina T rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: netgalley, zombies, 2-5-stars, dystopian, m-g-read, 2017-book-challenge

I have a love/hate relationship with this book. There were parts I loved. There were parts I hated. There were parts I wished would just get over with quickly because I was bored....so bored during them. I read this with a friend who said "Hey, let's start a book club" then failed to finish the book and drove 1500 miles to get away from it. Technically it could have been his summer job in Yellowstone that drove him from our area but the coincidences are too great to ignore.

The Good: I absolutely I have a love/hate relationship with this book. There were parts I loved. There were parts I hated. There were parts I wished would just get over with quickly because I was bored....so bored during them. I read this with a friend who said "Hey, let's start a book club" then failed to finish the book and drove 1500 miles to get away from it. Technically it could have been his summer job in Yellowstone that drove him from our area but the coincidences are too great to ignore.

The Good: I absolutely love zombie books. Even when the book doesn't come out and say "I'm a zombie book" I'm pretty much hooked and going to enjoy it on a basic level. There is something about an apocalyptic event turning people to mindless flesh eating monsters that can be terrifying and totally awesome at the same time. So props to Carey for writing a book that I was super excited for and for making the first half of the book amaze-balls! I was in love with the carefully laid out plot and the idea that the children were not exactly children but weren't zombies either. What an freaking fantastical beginning!

What else did I like? Melanie. I adored Melanie. I liked seeing things from her perspective and her ability to understand she wasn't like Miss J or the doctor. I thought her character was amazing and her growth during the book was well thought out. Melanie was the book, in my opinion.

The Bad: The entire middle of the book bored me to tears. I couldn't care less what caused the apocalypse. I hated all the science-y mumbo-jumbo and honestly, I thought Dr. Caldwell's entire part within the book was boring and annoying. She made the book almost unbearable to me. How were we to believe she was working on a cure yet she didn't know any more about the thing causing the apocalypse than we did and kept ooooing and ahhhhing over the weird zombie plants. Not to mention she was TSTL (to stupid to live) and almost got the surviving handful from the base killed multiple times.

In a Nutshell: My experience was this book....I'm loving this book. Love it. Love it. Love it. I'm going to totally tell everyone to read this book! What's going on...what happened to this book?.....zzzzzzzzzz.....wha...what?....Did I miss something? nope...zzzzzzzz.......oh good she's finally gone....Well that's an interesting twist....That's the end? WTF? I don't know how I feel about this. If only my Book Club Buddy, KJ, would have finished this book so I can discuss it with him!!!!!!! ...more

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Apr 03, 2014 Mandy rated it liked it

Shelves: kindle

I'm a bit conflicted by this one. Part of the 'schtick' of The Girl with All the Gifts is that you don't know where Melanie is or why she's there, and most of the reviews emphasised that it's so much better going into the book NOT knowing the premise. This goes against my usual reading style, since I'm not a huge YA reader and I like to know what to expect style-wise. But I listened, and I read nothing further about the premise before diving in.

And I'm not sure that was the best idea for me beca ...more

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Nov 25, 2018 Bruin Mccon rated it really liked it

Shelves: pub-2014

If you’re prone to nightmares after reading or watching The Walking Dead, be careful when you read this story. I went through it very quickly and would have finished in one day had I not had to put it on ice as bedtime approached. The last quarter of the book was a bit of a let-down for me. Otherwise I would have given it five stars.

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