Generation Dead by Daniel Waters
First off........I love the cover.
Teens all over America are returning from the dead. With so many 'differently biotic' stumbling around new ways of tolerance and rights must be navigated.
Phoebe and Adam (Goth girl and Lame Man) have been best friends and neighbors for year. Their high school has a good undead program and is attracting the undead from all around. Phoebe takes a shine to Tommy, one of the undead boys. Tommy joins the football team that Adam plays for. Attention is quickly drawn to Tommy and the rights of the undead are challenged.
By cover appearances you get the feeling this will be teen fluff and giggles over the 'corpsicles, wormburgers, zombies....etc.......'. Turns out that even though the language is timely, witty, and spunky, the core issues are not light reading. It is a new age battle over equality. Once the living die, their death certificate strips them of all the rights Americans take for granted.....even the right to go on living.
I would have loved it if the book delved further into the reason for the dead returning to life. It felt like a gaping hole not knowing what made the zombies tick......although I guess it leaves it open for imagination. The civil rights movement in a fresh way was definitely something to think about. Although you could surely see the tides washing ashore in the same paths taken by the former civil rights movement.....peaceable vs. violent.
By the end of the book I was surprised and sad. This was a great read. It was light enough verbally to still be a fun read despite the depth it touched on.
Rating 4.5
Rating PG violence
First off........I love the cover.
Teens all over America are returning from the dead. With so many 'differently biotic' stumbling around new ways of tolerance and rights must be navigated.
Phoebe and Adam (Goth girl and Lame Man) have been best friends and neighbors for year. Their high school has a good undead program and is attracting the undead from all around. Phoebe takes a shine to Tommy, one of the undead boys. Tommy joins the football team that Adam plays for. Attention is quickly drawn to Tommy and the rights of the undead are challenged.
By cover appearances you get the feeling this will be teen fluff and giggles over the 'corpsicles, wormburgers, zombies....etc.......'. Turns out that even though the language is timely, witty, and spunky, the core issues are not light reading. It is a new age battle over equality. Once the living die, their death certificate strips them of all the rights Americans take for granted.....even the right to go on living.
I would have loved it if the book delved further into the reason for the dead returning to life. It felt like a gaping hole not knowing what made the zombies tick......although I guess it leaves it open for imagination. The civil rights movement in a fresh way was definitely something to think about. Although you could surely see the tides washing ashore in the same paths taken by the former civil rights movement.....peaceable vs. violent.
By the end of the book I was surprised and sad. This was a great read. It was light enough verbally to still be a fun read despite the depth it touched on.
Rating 4.5
Rating PG violence
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