The amazing Carrie Ryan just scored a lovely little red star from Publisher’s Weekly! You guys…no joke…The Forest of Hands and Teeth is the next big thing.
Don’t believe me? Believe this instead:
Mary’s village has been trapped for generations by a very near, very visible menace: the Unconsecrated—insatiable, flesh-eating zombies that constantly tear at the village’s fences. Yet the Sisterhood—a conventlike order of religious women charged to protect the village’s survival—is as much responsible for the submission of Mary’s village as the Unconsecrated. When the fences are breached and the village overrun, Mary and several others escape through gated paths and arrive deep into the Forest of Hands and Teeth, forced to search beyond it for their future. Mary’s observant, careful narration pulls readers into a bleak but gripping story of survival and the endless capacity of humanity to persevere. That Mary maintains emotional distance serves to render her yearnings and romantic feelings even more poignant and powerful. Fresh and riveting.
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:44 pm
That girl looks tired! :( I’m intrigued by the Sisterhood – I don’t think we come across warrior nuns too often, but I may be living in a bubble. The title may give me nightmares – I’ve seen too many scary movies with forests!
Congrats to Carrie! (I assume the red star is a good thing, but please enlighten me as to what it means? Bubble complex.)
cecilia
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Hey Cecilia! Yes…a red star is a GREAT thing! it means that Publisher’s Weekly magazine thought The Forest of Hands and Teeth was one of the best books of the season!
Yay!
February 4th, 2009 at 3:02 am
I’m lucky enough to have read this already. It definitely deserves that star!
February 5th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Oh this book was absofriggenloutely the best. I loved it, and that is saying alot, for zombies freak me out.
February 8th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Yeah for stars, especially when so deserved.