I appreciate that because it means I don't need a glossary or terms for the book.You are brought into this story from the beginning and you feel for each and every character that has to fight to survive along the way. It is basically normal people running from Zombies. She doesn't have a bunch of sci-fi terms in the book. The fact that she doesn't give a year and she uses a few current events makes it scarey.
She creates a world that you could almost picture as being real. I did find that I had to walk away a few times though.The author's writing is very telling. This story is extremely graphic in the violence, but that is expected with the story and genre. Reading the book I was captivated from the beginning. Maybe by having a female lead the story would be softer. Something about Contagious was appealing to me. Zombie tales in my eyes have always been harsh and never really easy on the eyes. Goodwin has shown that female writers can make flesh crawl, both living and undead, just as well as her male peers.” - Read more “In her narrative storytelling, Emily Goodwin presents a refreshingly strong female hero in her zombie-infested, survival tale. When she finds herself a reluctant leader of a group of survivors, she must make a choice: set aside her issues and help the others or go off alone in search of her own family and friends. Orissa is used to only being responsible for herself. A virus breaks out across the country, leaving the infected crazed, aggressive, and very hungry. Down on her luck, Orissa doesn’t think she can go any lower. Unable to find a job, she moves in with her aunt in Indianapolis. It terrified me, right down to my very core, to be alive while the rest of the world was dead.”ĭuring the Second Great Depression, twenty-four-year-old Orissa Penwell is forced to drop out of college when she is no longer able to pay for classes.
Living, while everyone around me had their flesh savagely torn from their bodies to be shoved into the festering and ever-hungry mouths of zombies. My worst fear wasn’t of dying, it was of living. “I can’t give this post-apocalyptic story six stars but I wish I could!” -Tamara Rose Blodgett
First in the zombie pandemic series by the New York Times–bestselling author.
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