This book was So Much Fun.
That is if alt-history with strong themes of racial injustice, brilliant worldbuilding and a sickle-wielding badass heroine who kill zombies is your idea of fun. I absolutely loved everything about it from the careful pacing to the plot’s twists and turns.
Jane Mckeene, mixed heritage daughter of a wealthy mother, is at a ‘combat school’ a boarding-school where black girls are sent to learn to fight zombies in order to become Attendants–bodyguards for wealthy white women. After Gettysburg when the dead first rose and began to eat the living, America’s racial injustices prevail but even the wealthy whites now live in garrisoned towns or compounds, fighting off the undead or ‘shamblers’ as they’re known. When Jane messes up, she’s sent out West, a place the East Coast elite know little about and what she finds there is frankly terrifying-even for a girl trained to dispatch the undead with one swing of a blade.
Apparently there’s a sequel, which I look forward to. And what about that amazingly gorgeous cover? 14+, though my husband has already stolen it from me and he’s considerably older.
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