I know what you're going to say. "But Adri, I'm a writer! How do I have time to read?" The answer is simple. Find a book you really want to read-something that pulls at your heartstrings from the very first chapter or grips your interest with a glance at the cover-and you'll find time! Dread Nation consumed a very well-spent afternoon.
Justina Ireland's Dread Nation is one of the most authentically written young adult books I've read in a long time. The whole book reads in a Southern Dialect, and explores the Reconstruction Era in a believable and fun way.
Now, I confess, I've never read a zombie book before (unless you count Maze Runner, in which case, I've read 3), so I found the concept of a Civil War with zombies to be very unique and refreshing in the realm of YA fantasy. Each page has wit, each character has humor, and each scene will thrill you.
What to take away from a book like this...
Flaunt what makes your book different. Now this might seem obvious, but what made me buy this book among all the others lining the shelves wasn't it's familiarity or its conformity, but how I'd never read anything like it in my genre. Historical zombie books have been written before, but only one of these treasures piled in with the runaway princesses and magical kingdoms. Be new and original right now.
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