** spoiler alert ** 
 The Girl With All The Gifts is just my sort of story. It's set a few decades after the zombie apocalypse started, coming in on what's left of humanity. 
 This story is told from many different viewpoints, helping you to see things from all sides. In a fresh and unique perspective we get to see the zombie apocalypse... from the zombies side. 
 Melanie wishes she'd been named Pandora, it's much prettier and more fitting than Melanie, she thinks. Melanie is unaware that she is a "hungry". She lives in a cell in an army base, where she takes classes with rotating teachers while strapped to a chair and wearing a muzzle. Melanie thinks that one day she will grow up, and move into the real world. She brings humanity to the zombie race, and you find yourself rooting for the tiny cannibal. 
 Miss Justineau is Melanie's favorite teacher, who teaches the class about fun things like spring, and greek myths, and Winnie the Pooh. Melanie would do anything to protect Miss Justineau. This teacher finds herself empathizing with her tiny students, even though she's fully aware of their zombie state. She helps you to see the children as people, while her reactions at times remind you how they kind of aren't. 
 Sarge and Parks... I keep getting them mixed up, even though they are vastly different characters. They're both army personnel charged with keeping the subjects from infecting any of the other members of the army base. Sarge I kind of hate, even though they humanize him throughout. He was a nice contrast to Melanie, a non-human with human emotions, and Sarge, a human with monstrous actions. Parks is just a kid, born after the apocalypse started, so we get to see this world through his eyes. Everything has always been this way to him, and that's not something you really think about when reading zombie novels... the generations after. 
 Dr. Caldwell is looking for the cure for the zombie apocalypse, and to do so she's cutting into the heads of these zombie children who show some resistance to the strain. I hate her because she treats Melanie and her classmates like animals, attempting to de-humanize them. 
 It was a rollercoaster ride for me. I was rooting for Melanie, but at the same time, I want the human race to continue on. I was hoping for a conclusion where we lived together side by side, but didn't think that it would be wrapped up so neatly. (It wasn't.) 
 The first 200 pages or so had me glued to my seat, I couldn't put it down. I loved learning about Melanie, and her life at the base. I lost interest when they fled, and felt like I was trudging through until the last 50 pages or so. I'd recommend this to anyone who normally reads zombie fiction, and maybe some who don't. Melanie's story is a good one for even those people who don't necessarily like to read supernatural fiction.