Friday, July 22, 2011

Passing Strange by Daniel Waters

Passing Strange (Generation Dead, #3)Passing Strange by Daniel Waters

This was taken from goodreads.com/jess_readerwriter, I wrote the review freely and I apologize if the reviews are not written in a professional manner.

Synopsis: Karen DeSonne is used to pretending to be something she’s not. All her life, she’s passed as a normal all-American teenager; with her friends, with her family, and at school. Passing cost her the love of her life. And now that Karen’s dead, she’s still passing this time, as alive. Meanwhile, Karen’s dead friends have been fingered in a high-profile murder, causing a new round of anti-zombie regulations that have forced nearly all of Oakvale’s undead into hiding. Karen soon learns that the “murder” was a hoax, staged by Pete Martinsburg and his bioist zealots. Obtaining enough evidence to expose the fraud and prove her friends’ innocence means doing the unthinkable: betraying her love by becoming Pete’s girlfriend. Karen’s only hope is that the enemy never realizes who she really is because the consequences would be even worse than death.


My rating: 4 stars of 5
Slightly disturbing
Switched point of views
Great story telling


This book was surprisingly a lot better than I had imagined. Passing Strange is mostly in Karen DeSonne's point of view but switches between 1st and 3rd perspective. Which I found a little annoying.

It takes place almost RIGHT after the second book, Kiss Of Life. We find out what happens to Karen after she was shot. The book goes through a journey leaving off from the 2nd book. Most of the conflict revolves around the Guttridge death and Pete's crazy psycho clan thing he has goin' on called One Life.

Although I found One Life slightly disturbing, it didn't occur to me that this clan was such a huge part of the plot. Pete is the Reverend's favorite, which calls for Pete to do everything he asks. Which includes killing all zombies (He even has a list). Pete has such a huge roll in this book. He goes through an a huge time period where I thought he wasn't going to come back from Crazy Town. Towards the end, he apologizes to everyone and I thought he was fine and maybe normal? But, nooo, things changed. . . .

Overall, this book had several boring parts to be honest. But it also had very suspenseful and mysterious parts to it that made you not want to put it down.

This book could be considered a stand-alone but it would probably confuse several in some areas.

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Friday, July 22, 2011

Passing Strange by Daniel Waters

Passing Strange (Generation Dead, #3)Passing Strange by Daniel Waters

This was taken from goodreads.com/jess_readerwriter, I wrote the review freely and I apologize if the reviews are not written in a professional manner.

Synopsis: Karen DeSonne is used to pretending to be something she’s not. All her life, she’s passed as a normal all-American teenager; with her friends, with her family, and at school. Passing cost her the love of her life. And now that Karen’s dead, she’s still passing this time, as alive. Meanwhile, Karen’s dead friends have been fingered in a high-profile murder, causing a new round of anti-zombie regulations that have forced nearly all of Oakvale’s undead into hiding. Karen soon learns that the “murder” was a hoax, staged by Pete Martinsburg and his bioist zealots. Obtaining enough evidence to expose the fraud and prove her friends’ innocence means doing the unthinkable: betraying her love by becoming Pete’s girlfriend. Karen’s only hope is that the enemy never realizes who she really is because the consequences would be even worse than death.


My rating: 4 stars of 5
Slightly disturbing
Switched point of views
Great story telling


This book was surprisingly a lot better than I had imagined. Passing Strange is mostly in Karen DeSonne's point of view but switches between 1st and 3rd perspective. Which I found a little annoying.

It takes place almost RIGHT after the second book, Kiss Of Life. We find out what happens to Karen after she was shot. The book goes through a journey leaving off from the 2nd book. Most of the conflict revolves around the Guttridge death and Pete's crazy psycho clan thing he has goin' on called One Life.

Although I found One Life slightly disturbing, it didn't occur to me that this clan was such a huge part of the plot. Pete is the Reverend's favorite, which calls for Pete to do everything he asks. Which includes killing all zombies (He even has a list). Pete has such a huge roll in this book. He goes through an a huge time period where I thought he wasn't going to come back from Crazy Town. Towards the end, he apologizes to everyone and I thought he was fine and maybe normal? But, nooo, things changed. . . .

Overall, this book had several boring parts to be honest. But it also had very suspenseful and mysterious parts to it that made you not want to put it down.

This book could be considered a stand-alone but it would probably confuse several in some areas.

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