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The enemy / Charlie Higson ; [map illustration by Kayley LeFiaver].Author: Higson, Charles, 1958-
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: New York : Hyperion, 2010.
ISBN: 9781423131755
1423131754
Description: 440 p.
Subject: Zombies Juvenile fiction.
Zombies Fiction.
Horror stories.
London (England) Juvenile fiction.
London (England) Fiction.
Target Audience: 014-017.
Notes: Originally published: London : Puffin Books, 2009.
Summary: After a disease turns everyone over sixteen into brainless, decomposing, flesh-eating creatures, a group of teenagers leave their shelter and set out on a harrowing journey across London to the safe haven of Buckingham Palace.
Review
Publishers Weekly
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Lord of the Flies meets 28 Days Later in this disturbing postapocalyptic adventure. Higson (the Young Bond series) presents a kids-only world with shades of Michael Grant's Gone books, though in this case, a disease has turned everyone over the age of 16 into mindless, flesh-eating nightmares, terrorizing and devouring those unaffected. Packs of resourceful kids have holed up in supermarkets, constructing defenses, foraging for supplies, and fighting off feral "grown-ups." For the group sheltering in a Waitrose store, it's a ceaseless battle for survival, where even the simplest expedition can prove fatal. When the possibility of a haven arrives, the Waitrose kids band with new allies as they make a hazardous trek across London to the promised land: Buckingham Palace. Alternately bleak and defiant, this splatterfest doesn't pull any punches ("The skin blackened, shriveled and split, the overripe flesh inside squeezing out.... This was what happened if any grown-up lived long enough to let the disease run its full course") nor is any character safe. It's up to a sequel to sort out some plot threads, but this is a solid start. Ages 12-up
(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Lord of the Flies meets 28 Days Later in this disturbing postapocalyptic adventure. Higson (the Young Bond series) presents a kids-only world with shades of Michael Grant's Gone books, though in this case, a disease has turned everyone over the age of 16 into mindless, flesh-eating nightmares, terrorizing and devouring those unaffected. Packs of resourceful kids have holed up in supermarkets, constructing defenses, foraging for supplies, and fighting off feral "grown-ups." For the group sheltering in a Waitrose store, it's a ceaseless battle for survival, where even the simplest expedition can prove fatal. When the possibility of a haven arrives, the Waitrose kids band with new allies as they make a hazardous trek across London to the promised land: Buckingham Palace. Alternately bleak and defiant, this splatterfest doesn't pull any punches ("The skin blackened, shriveled and split, the overripe flesh inside squeezing out.... This was what happened if any grown-up lived long enough to let the disease run its full course") nor is any character safe. It's up to a sequel to sort out some plot threads, but this is a solid start. Ages 12-up