The Dead by Charlie Higson

The Dead by Charlie Higson

This book is a young adult horror book set in a post apocalyptic world. I read this book without knowing that it was the second book in a trilogy. But I only realised this after I had finished the book, it was a very easy read and simple to follow on but the best thing was how realistic it was. It answered that question in every kids mind, of what the world would be like without adults, only in this book everybody aged 16 and up turn into the walking dead. But what I found most interesting is how they coped with it, because there were no adults there wasn't any:

• TV
• Laptops
• Computers
• Food
• Electricity
• Hot water

My favourite bit about this book was how all the girls drowned them in cheap perfume trying not to act like they hadn't had a proper shower in weeks.

The cover of this book is very clever. It has a read background (to signify blood and death) and an eye with a skull instead of a pupil (to signify that the adults may be moving and blinking, but they are not alive inside.)

I have not read or heard of another book like this one, The Dead is very original.

Slated by Teri Terry

Slated by Teri Terry Questions

The end of the book doesn't end with a 'they lived happily ever after' it leaves you wondering and thinking. This is because Slated is a trilogy

I was reminded a lot of the hunger games, because they are both dystopian novels, set in the future and both have out of control governments. 

The best thing about this book is that it feels like you are going on an adventure with the main character Kyla. Kyla isn't like the rest of the people who got slated, something is different with her which means that she asks more questions than is good for her, this leads her to go on a search to find out who she was before the government wiped her of her memories.

I wouldn't know how to describe the characters in this book; they are really very complex and tricky to understand unless you have read Slated. Teri Terry does this by making the characters so complex that they feel very realistic.

One of the best things about the book is how I never knew who was trustworthy and who wasn’t. Someone who was a stereotypical bad guy could be secretly good and someone who appeared so good you knew they must be evil, may actually be good. Truly, I never knew what to think about them, and I absolutely loved that.