The Reapers Are The Angels by Alden BellRead about another entry on the list.
This is the zombie apocalypse made dreamlike and humid, Homer’s Odyssey with wicked blades, mannered soldiers, and grotesques at every turn. Temple, barely 16 and born into a world overrun by the dead years before, sees beauty everywhere—in schools of fish, in abandoned towns reclaimed by nature, even in the masses of the undead around her. She’s a wanderer with a hungry mind, traveling as much of the country as she can, running from a tragedy that devastated her years before—and from the man who’s hunting her.
Temple and her pursuer travel the American south from Florida to Texas, a landscape filled with desiccated walking corpses, moss-hung mansions, mutant hillbilly dynasties, refugee trains, and incandescent beauty. Bell has a knack for writing indelible imagery, and the prose here will haunt you well beyond the last page.
The Reapers Are the Angels is among Ceridwen Christensen's six top zombie novels and Kimberly Turner's ten books every zombie fan must read.
The Page 69 Test: The Reapers Are the Angels.
My Book, the Movie: The Reapers Are the Angels.
--Marshal Zeringue
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