The Forest of Hands and Teeth

 Coming at this book after reading so much in the YA dystopian genre, this one seemed to fall flat. It could be that many of the books I have read in the genre have built upon this one making it seem less, or it really isn't that great of a book, at least for pleasure reading for adults, perhaps young adults will be more forgiving. 

The book, as well as our main character, seem divided between freedom from the village to see the ocean and the love story. Every time Mary became clear in her choice and need to leave, she'd see or think about Travis or Harry and wallow about her poor life and how much she wants to be with Travis. By the time they had finally left the village this had become quite annoying. As a side note, the love triangle was there and annoying, yet at the same time so unnecessary to the later part of the story. 

Unfortunately, I disliked all of the characters except Jacob and the dog. It isn't just the fact that they had flaws, I love flawed characters, but it felt like none of them truly had a personality, rather a set of actions and emotions they had to complete and do before the end of the story. Also, no matter what they did wrong, there was always something to redeem them later, which I found to be optimistic. 

Yet, I read until the end easily because I wanted to know what would happen.

This is not a series I will be continuing and as for recommending it to people, I think I would do so sparingly since there are other zombie YA books out now.