First Rot and Ruin, and now this. Someone PLEASE save us from these relentlessly pedestrian and annoying YA novels with their whiny teen protagonists and one-dimensional plots and characters. I can't even be bothered to write a proper review anymore. Here's a helpful tip for the writer: Just because teenagers are whiny and melodramatic does not mean that you have to write like one. There's not one point in the book where I don't feel like shaking Mary and saying: Stop it, just f*cking stop it. Her character is a monumental wet end. 
 God, what happened to zombie fiction with adult characters and plots, is YA the only thing that sells now? and is this why the post-apocalyptic genre (not just the zombie subgenre) being polluted with this crap? I'm having to re-read my old favourites like World War Z, because it seems like all the new ones are written for the sole purpose of being adapted for the silver screen for kids with short attention spans. 
 Oh how I long for the days when YA was what you read before you transitioned to 'proper' adult books, and nobody took them seriously. 
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 Just found out that they're making a movie out of this. It would probably be better than the book, considering that we won't have to hear Mary's 'thoughts'.