![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the books' similarities, readers are sure to be hooked, as this novel also retains Ryan's gripping storytelling style and engaging prose. But it also offers an expansion of postapocalyptic detail (including the Recruiters, a militant, policelike organization that hunts and brutalizes as much as it tries to protect) and a few inspired surprises. Like its predecessor, this book features a breach of the town, an escape into the Forest, a love triangle, the ever-present and inexhaustible Mudo, and an extraordinarily bleak mood. After a reckless nighttime adventure with her friends turns tragic, Gabry avoids punishment, but can't escape the changes to and revelations about her life that quickly mount. ![]() Like Mary's former village, Vista is carefully protected from the Mudo (the Unconsecrated), zombielike humans constantly seeking people to infect. Shes content to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the. Gabry lives in the seaside town of Vista, the same place that Mary landed at the end of the previous book. Gabry lives a quiet life, secure in her town next to the sea and behind the Barrier. Which functions as something of a retelling of that story, albeit with a different protagonist. Ryan returns with a companion to her critically acclaimed debut, The Forest of Hands and Teeth, The seismogram is 'read' like a book, from left to right and top to bottom (this is the direction that time increases). ![]()
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