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The Reapers are the Angels (Reapers, #1)

Alden Bell

Start date: September 1, 2013

Finish date: September 15, 2013

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Jul 15, 2011 Netanella rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: zombies

I loved this book!

I would love it better with quotation marks, dammit!

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Jul 25, 2011 Ami E. Bowen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: most-engaging-stories, favourite-books, favorites

"The Reapers Are The Angels" is the type of book that's literally difficult to put down. I read it in the span of a day and a half. It follows the (mis)adventures of a spitfire girl named Temple through the zombie-infested countryside with an autistic man she picked up by chance along the way while being chased by another man hell bent on vengeance. This is not your typical dystopian-slash-zombie novel and has a few surprises for the reader if they're patient enough to keep reading and wait for ...more

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Jan 06, 2012 Gertie rated it really liked it

Shelves: apocalypse, zombies, short

This book is a little hard to describe. It's a... quiet novel. There's no edge-of-your-seat excitement, or anything very sensational, but it has a kind of mellow intensity - which probably sounds like a paradox until you've read it for yourself.

The main character grows up in a lonely existence in a zombie ("slug") infested world, and struggles with her sense of morality. She dispatches the infected with little more concern than one of us would give to whacking down poison ivy on a walking path ...more

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Oct 25, 2010 Cameron rated it liked it

Shelves: zombies, post-apocalypse

Solid 4-star zombie yarn right up to page 123, when The Family, a group of (view spoiler) shows up. I don't know why Alden Bell felt the need to throw this wrench in the works. It didn't really fit in with the rest of the novel and it wasn't necessary to move the plot forward. Maybe he had the image of this particular bugbear banging around in his head for a few years and he just had to get it on paper. Maybe he though ...more

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