Mary lives in the Forest of Hands and Teeth. She lives in a village within the confine of fences that keep her and her village safe from the Unconsecrated. The Unconsecrated have overtaken everything since the Return. Mary wonders if there is anything outside of the forest, if there is anyone left.
Mary's mother has tempted her with stories of the ocean and now she cannot rest. Nothing can satisfy her desire to see what is beyond the forest.......to make it to the salty ocean. Even the love of one boy, the exquisitely haunting desire for another, the mysterious threats of the Sisterhood, or the danger of becoming Unconsecrated herself, nothing is enough to stop her need to go beyond.
I finished this book very quickly, but I am still haunted by the acute pain left by Travis (Mary's love). Travis is betrothed to Cass, Mary's bestfriend. He is also the brother of Harry, Mary's betrothed. Although the book is about zombies that have come about by a virus at some point in the future, it still has the feeling of being in the past. Between the fear for their lives and the desire for something Mary can't have, the book was gripping, and tore at my heart.
Book quotes that I LOVE.....
Mary says....."Tonight my body pulses with awareness as I kneel by his bed, our fingers intertwined. We've been sharing each other's breath for what seems like weeks now even though it's only been a few moments. It's as if there is infinity between our lips and we will never actually touch. Like math, where dividing by half can last for eternity."
"Suddenly he doesn't feel like my friend but like something more and I have to force myself to remember that he is not mine to desire." (ugh.......so painful!)
"In the last few days I had already begun to imagine what Travis's and my children would look like, how their tiny hands would curl around my finger. I had already dreamed an entire life between Travis and me. And now that was the only life that we would ever lead together-the one in my dreams."
"It is not about surviving. It should be about love. When you know love.. that's what makes this life worth it. When you live with it every day. Wake up with it, hold on to it during the thunder and after a nightmare. When love is your refuge from the death that surrounds us all and when it fills you so tight that you can't express it."
Rating 5 This was a good book. It may not be super fantastic but it still left me feeling it after more than one day so.......I have to give it credit.
Rating PG It's totally clean despite the desire thick enough to cut with a knife. The zombies (Unconsecrated) are trying to kill everyone, so the threat is a little scary.
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