The Enemy (#1) by Charlie Higson → Start Date: October 21st, 2015

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Please join Maddison and I if you can!

[Vicki]

IF I can get the book, I'll join. Then I can use it for my genre challenge for ZOMBIES month. LOL

[Maddie]

Hopefully you can, Vicki. I read this book before and I really enjoyed it.

[Vicki]

Thanks, Maddison. :o)

[Maddie]

Will we read the rest of the series too?

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

I sure hope so!

[Vicki]

I always plan to read an entire series unless I hate book 1. Lol

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

lol even then I sometimes try 1 more just in case! ha! :D

[Vicki]

If I HATE it, I don't go for book 2 but you know how many 1-star ratings I give. Lol

[Maddie]

Haha alright. I'm still on schedule to start this tomorrow :) Pretty excited.

[Maddie]

May end up starting this tonight because I'm actually ahead of schedule :D

[Maddie]

I'm on page 71, which is 17% through, and hope to get lots more read tonight pending how many people are on to sprint :p

[Maddie]

Loving it so far, though.

[Maddie]

Over halfway through.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

wow, I haven't been ahead of schedule for a few months. lol

I'm starting now

[Vicki]

Are you ahead???

[Maddie]

I'm finished :p And yes, I'm ahead of schedule. Even got some free time now to read some library books! Well, gonna try and get a bit of Under the Dome read so I don't have to catch up too much after school Tuesday.

[Vicki]

Wow! Congrats to you!!

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

10 chapters

Fathers and Mothers(view spoiler)[ huh...interesting we don't know what this is. it's like they rot, then die and then rot some more. yuck
and I wonder how they are getting smarter
and why their eyes don't rot
and what that woman really said to him. and if it was his mom..... (hide spoiler)]

Aren - I know I'm misspelling. I forgot how he spells it (view spoiler)[ I feel bad for him. it has to be hard to be the 'leader' after the apocalypse that kills all the adults....and leaves them attacking you (hide spoiler)]

Magic Mike(view spoiler)[ ugh. his paradise sounds too good to be true, right? sounds like he was recruited to find fighters. His group doesn't sound like they fight well. I think he's lying. no way he would dare going out there - with 4 others - and sacrifice their life to find others. (hide spoiler)]

Morrison(view spoiler)[ I hope those kids are okay. (hide spoiler)]

this one is starting out pretty good

[Maddie]

Thanks Vicki :) I'm pretty proud of myself and the quick way I finished that :)

Glad you're liking it, Trisha.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

through 40% / Chapter 25

this one is just okay so far
it reminds me a lot of Gone

[Maddie]

Yeah it's similar. Hopefully it gets better for you. Funny how you loved Prince of Thorns but not this one. I'm the other way around :p

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

and I'm done.

this one was just okay for me. it drug quite a bit but was an interesting premise.

(view spoiler)[ I was surprised by just how many kids were killed off or died in brutal ways. I like that it made it more realistic.
but I thought the whole cast of who all gave POV to be too big and it drug when it got too into the little squabbles (hide spoiler)]

[Maddie]

Na I liked the different perspectives :)

[Maddie]

When would you like to read the rest of the series, if you do at all?

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

sure, I wouldnt mind keeping up with these kids.

name a date and I'm there :)

[Maddie]

You name a date :p I'm not decisive, never have been, probably never will be.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

How's 12/4?

I think you have more buddy reads in december than I do! LOL

[Maddie]

Yeah I can do the 4th. And that's fine :p December's summer for me so I'll [hopefully] be reading heeeaps. That's why I'm not fussed about dates for buddy reads that are really close together.

[Maddie]

Mind making the thread?

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Yep! Thread is here:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Maddie]

Sweet thanks. Deleting this one now.