Review: Generation Dead

Generation Dead by Daniel Waters

When some teenagers around America start rising from the dead for reasons nobody understands, some of them go back to school. One of those schools is Oakvale High, where Phoebe and her "normally biotic" friends Adam and Margi attend classes. People have different reactions when it comes to the "differently biotic," everything from fear and revulsion to fascination and compassion. When Phoebe gets a crush on living impaired football player Tommy and starts dating him, things start to get complicated.

Generation dead is not so much a traditional zombie novel with gore and armed hordes as a tale of prejudice and fear. Differently biotic teens are rejected by their families and friends and subjected to ridicule and violence, and the people who care for them are made vulnerable as well. While the book isn't really preachy about all this, it definitely makes it's point.

Although this book wasn't what I thought it would be I enjoyed it well enough, and I hope that some things (like the suspicious Hunter Foundation) will be fleshed out in the sequels.

3.5 stars out of 5 for Generation Dead.

Tommy's blog, My So-called Undeath.