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The First Days by Rhiannon Frater
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May 15, 2013

really liked it
bookshelves: t-zombies, g-urban-fantasy
Recommended to Ian by: Stacia (the 2010 club)
Recommended for: zombies and the people who love them
Read from June 14 to 21, 2017 , read count: 2

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This book reminds me of so many movies. It’s Thelma & Louise meets Mr & Mrs Smith meets Pulp Fiction meets The Killer meets The Day of the Triffids.

It’s something of a Bullet Ballet with two very cool heroines killing zombies in just about every way imaginable. Everything from bull bars to shovels and of course bullets. There is so much carnage in this book that it becomes cartoonish which is pretty much par for the course with zombies.

It’s over the top, up in your face, and pretty damned funny.
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05/19 ""It could be a terrorist virus".
"No! They're zombies!"" 4 comments
05/20 "Jenni is funny."
05/21 marked as: read
06/14 marked as: currently-reading
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Stacia (the 2010 club) Awesome trilogy. It's dark and gory but there are still elements of hope and romance, which makes for a good read.


message 2: by Ian (last edited May 15, 2013 02:04PM) (new) - rated it 4 stars

Ian I'm curious about Dead of Eve...something in the synopsis bothers me...I'm reasonably sure you could guess what, it would probably bother the other ISFJ you know as well. I'll do a ninja comment on your review so I get the updates.


Stacia (the 2010 club) I've been really lazy with doing status updates lately. Usually, I just wait and review unless something's really pissing me off and I need to vent.

Oh? What is it that bothers you?


message 4: by Ian (new) - rated it 4 stars

Ian "Men brutalize her".


Stacia (the 2010 club) Ahhh yes. I haven't gotten to that part yet but I'm a little worried that it's going to go the route of (view spoiler)


Stacia (the 2010 club) You don't have access to the show The Walking Dead where you're at, do you? Other than having to pay to watch? Because this book reads just like an episode of that show.


message 7: by Ian (new) - rated it 4 stars

Ian Stacia ~ Mistress of Mediocrity wrote: "You don't have access to the show The Walking Dead where you're at, do you?"

I think one of my nieces may have showed me an episode on DVD....I don't really watch all that much TV...come to think of it the last TV show I watched was Bunheads episode 5.


message 8: by Stacia (the 2010 club) (last edited May 22, 2013 01:06PM) (new) - rated it 4 stars

Stacia (the 2010 club) About 2 years ago I hardly watched any t.v. I blame Goodreads friends for introducing me to a lot of new stuff, although we are lucky having Netflix and Amazon Prime because we were able to start for free (from the beginning) a lot of shows that were already in progress. I'm sure if we had to pay for anything, it would severely limit what we would watch.


message 9: by Jill (new)

Jill Does it have any romance? Ah, two heroines aren't really my thing....you know?


message 10: by Ian (new) - rated it 4 stars

Ian Jill wrote: "Does it have any romance? Ah, two heroines aren't really my thing....you know?"

Hmm....I don't think this matters. One of the women is bisexual. She was in a same sex marriage but that doesn't really come into this series.

There is a bit of romance but not for a while....maybe not till the second book, but it's awesome!


message 11: by Jill (new)

Jill Ian wrote: "Jill wrote: "Does it have any romance? Ah, two heroines aren't really my thing....you know?"

Hmm....I don't think this matters. One of the women is bisexual. She was in a same sex marriage but t..."


*thinking*


message 12: by Ian (new) - rated it 4 stars

Ian lol...First Days really is good and it's all heterosexual. The lesbian marriage was before the book began. Katie's wife was killed in the first wave of the zombie apocalypse.


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