I found Scorched to be a mixture of Terminator plus Eragon plus Reign of Fire (great dragon movie featuring Christian Bale, Matthew McConnaughey, and Gerard Butler) plus Daenerys from Game of Thrones plus some elements of Dinotopia and even a dash of Inception. Um, you should read it. I really like Trinity as a protagonist. She's strong and stubborn, but she's also fiercely loyal and she's a thinker. She pays attention. She knows when someone is feeding her a bunch of crap, and I love it. Like Mari was talking about, how characters in zombie movies ignore the obvious, well, Trinity isn't like that. She can put two and two together. I also really like her lovable and bumbling grandpa. He's a sweetie, even if he doesn't always think rationally. I do pity both Connor and Caleb. Both have had hard lives, and both sacrifice so much for the causes that they believe in only to realize that neither choice is best. It's hard to fight against your brother, and it's hard to come to the realization that you've been wrong. They're both so prideful that I know they have a lot of soul-searching to do ahead as they try to figure out something new to believe in. My good friend Alex of Peace, Love, and Fangirl is firmly Teem Caleb so if you are too, go talk to her about that. However, I'm pretty firmly entrenched in Camp Connor. For once, I'm into the broody boy, not the more boisterous one. I know. I'm shocked too. This novel is fun and action-packed. You, like each of the characters, will find yourself facing the choice of which side is right. Are any of them right? You'll have to decide.