Honestly, I got sleepy. It's not a bad thing, really, because I was lulled into text that made me feel as if I were in a fairy tale. We have the big reveal of the first book being developed into a level up montage where Sal can sometime in the next book become the queen bee of the worms, and all is good. I like seeing not only character progression in making lots of grown up decisions, but also in spine tingling power ups. 
 For a kid who can't enjoy a good video game, she sure exhibits all the classic markers of being in a zombie apocalypse game. Thank goodness for Fish. He's the breakaway favorite for this book now that Tansy has devolved into a mcguffin. 
 Perhaps the third novel will also kill this darling, only to bring in one more super colorful character. 
 It was a pretty good novel in retrospect, but not entirely so during the read. I wanted more results and more push, but seeing Sal take control was definitely a great sign. 
 Final score? It is probably slower than I would have preferred, but character development made up for most of my complaints.