Two brothers travel into zombie-infested lands in order to save who they love. But zombies are dangerous, especially if you don't know how to deal with them.

I really enjoy dystopian books and I would classify this as one of them. This book was very interesting. The characters are extremely compelling and the world-building was amazing. I didn't totally enjoy the narrator because he was a teenage boy but it was written from a teenage boy's perspective. I cannot wait to read the rest of the series.

Benny's leaving this time, for real. Benny, Tom, Nix, and Lilah are headed east to get away from the town that doesn't care about getting back their land.

This book was a really good sequel. I love the important topics that are discussed in this book in a way that is actually really interesting. The characters feel very human and so do their actions. The continuation of the world-building is super interesting. Though part of this book made me cry I cannot wait to read the rest of the series.

3/5 

Daisy can see ghosts. She's always been able to but after her move something is not right with the house. Something only she can fix.

This book was pretty scatter all over the place so I'll start with Daisy's timeline. As a character, I thought that Daisy and her mother were extremely interesting. Both grew up with abusive mothers, in different ways, and struggled with who they wanted to become. I thought that the relationship that was developed between them was super interesting and compelling. I also really liked how Daisy interacted with people other than her mother.

However, I though certain things dragged a bit. It talks almost two or three hundred pages for Daisy to find out what happened to her Mother in the house and we still do not get everything at that point. This book is about 480 pages as an ebook on a kindle. I just thought that it was an incredibly long time for information to be dragged out especially when not much else was happening in the story. Another thing that was dragged out was what Daisy's study sessions with her mom were, which took almost the same amount of time to be reveled.

Onto Brittany's timeline. I thought that this timeline didn't even need to be included. I think that the only reason that it was was in order to give us an ending about what happened from an outside perspective. I didn't think that this timeline added any depth to the story and I honestly would have rather spent more time with Daisy. There were also much less about Brittany then there was Daisy so it just felt like it was thrown in without thought.

The setting and the world building were pretty good. I really felt like I could see where this story was talking place.

Overall, I think that this story could have cut out Brittany's timeline altogether and been about two hundred pages shorter and still gotten the point across perfectly.

Sophia's sister, Layla, is missing. The last official place that she was seen was her dorm but Sophia is positive that she saw a photo of Layla at Cashore House the set of Layla's cult classic film Vermilion. Now Sophia has found her way back to Cashore in order to find her sister but she may just have to face the fact that Vermilion was not just a movie.

I really enjoyed this book. The characters were super interesting and well developed. I also really loved the way the story was structured, giving the Reader both the past and the present without being confusing. The sisterly bond between Sophia and Layla was also really interesting as the book explores what happens when Sophia realizes that Layla has been lying to her for years. The setting was also beautifully done. Honestly the way that Katya writes setting should be examined because dang.

The only think that I really didn't like about the book was the relationship that bloomed. To me it just felt like it kind of came out of nowhere. Especially because Sophia describes how she had to fight hard to get the friends she had but then she just kind of falls for this guy. It just didn't feel super realistic to me.

It was creepy in the perfect way. If you enjoy your thrillers with a great dash of horror, give this one a read.