Nona P. (nona) reviewed on 7/26/2012 + 6 more book reviews

The Reapers are the Angels is Alden Bells first novel and what a great career start! I bought this after cruising GR listopia for Best Zombie Books for some ideas on what I wanted to follow up Breathers with since it sparked a zombie phase. Although I'm still not sure if this is a YA novel or not but either way it's got my vote.

Two and a half decades after to world we know today crumbles into a chaotic life and death dance with the undead, in this book their called meatskins or slugs. The theme is fight or die only now it's not just the meatskins your trying to survive but each other however few and scattered the living are. Temple a 15 year old girl with a much older soul was born into this world of death, decay and corpses. Temple travels the continent alone by choice, meeting other people, seeing the beautiful miracles all the while living at the end of her knife and wits. Through chance she stumbles upon a community living in highrises in a downtown city but when she is endangered she acts on instinct killing a warrior of theirs, she leaves in a hurry knowing the warriors brother will hunt her down. Thats all I'm saying now read the book already.

This story is amazing in the fact that even in all the horridness Temple found pleasure, peace and saw the beauty God created for her. It's pretty awesome that thru all the ugliness we as a people still find the strength and drive to keep looking to the future. My heart went out to Temple, to be so alone and so self critical yet such a fighter, she truely was a badass with a blade, and yet kind hearted and understood 'the code' of mankind.

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