Review - The Forest of Hands and Teeth
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wilderthanThe Forest of Hands and Teeth (Carrie Ryan)
I love the title of this. It intrigued me right from the word go, and it's also an appropriate way to refer to the forest in this book. I wanted more from this book -- in a good way -- I want to know how things got as they are, I want to know how the Sisterhood got to control the village, I want to know exactly what they did to Gabrielle and why. And I really want to know who survives and how. So I suppose I will be reading the other books in the trilogy!
The main character is not really my main interest. She's so... selfish. I mean, it's understandable, but the other characters... I want to know more about Cass, about Travis, about Harry. And I wanted to understand her relationships with those people, too: less telling, more showing. I never really got why she was so in love with Travis. I could see he was likeable, in some ways, but never really understood what made Mary think she was so in love with him, when really, she was so easily pushed into giving him up.
There's a lot of potential for emotional intensity and angst, and in some places, it hit the nail on the head. Beth and Jed. Mary and Travis, after he gets infected. I feel like this has a lot of potential, that it's a good taste of something, but I wish there was more. There's a strong female protagonist, there's romance, drama, danger, horror, action. It'll probably make a great movie as long as you're not a purist about it. But I wish we knew more about how the world came to be the way it is in the books. I suppose it'll come with the later books, though.
(Warning for the phobic: this book contains a lot of zombies.)
I love the title of this. It intrigued me right from the word go, and it's also an appropriate way to refer to the forest in this book. I wanted more from this book -- in a good way -- I want to know how things got as they are, I want to know how the Sisterhood got to control the village, I want to know exactly what they did to Gabrielle and why. And I really want to know who survives and how. So I suppose I will be reading the other books in the trilogy!
The main character is not really my main interest. She's so... selfish. I mean, it's understandable, but the other characters... I want to know more about Cass, about Travis, about Harry. And I wanted to understand her relationships with those people, too: less telling, more showing. I never really got why she was so in love with Travis. I could see he was likeable, in some ways, but never really understood what made Mary think she was so in love with him, when really, she was so easily pushed into giving him up.
There's a lot of potential for emotional intensity and angst, and in some places, it hit the nail on the head. Beth and Jed. Mary and Travis, after he gets infected. I feel like this has a lot of potential, that it's a good taste of something, but I wish there was more. There's a strong female protagonist, there's romance, drama, danger, horror, action. It'll probably make a great movie as long as you're not a purist about it. But I wish we knew more about how the world came to be the way it is in the books. I suppose it'll come with the later books, though.
(Warning for the phobic: this book contains a lot of zombies.)
