Blurb
Nine years ago, Jessie had a family. Now, she has a gang.
Nine years ago, Jessie was a vegetarian. Now, she eats very fresh meat.
Nine years ago, Jessie was in a car crash and died. Nine years ago, Jessie was human.
Now, she’s not.
After she was buried, Jessie awoke and tore through the earth to arise, reborn, as a zombie. Jessie’s gang is the Fly-by-Nights. She loves the ancient, skeletal Florian and his memories of time gone by. She’s in love with Joe, a maggot-infested corpse. They fight, hunt, dance together as one—something humans can never understand. There are dark places humans have learned to avoid, lest they run into the zombie gangs.
But now, Jessie and the Fly-by-Nights have seen new creatures in the woods—things not human and not zombie. A strange new illness has flamed up out of nowhere, causing the undeads to become more alive and the living to exist on the brink of death. As bits and pieces of the truth fall around Jessie, like the flesh off her bones, she’ll have to choose between looking away or staring down the madness—and hanging onto everything she has come to know as life…
Bloggers, :)
I apologize greatly for the delay in this review. But here it is, finally. :)
Dust by Joan Frances Turner is in my opinion a beautifully written novel. It is compelling, lovable and all in all an amazing page-turner.
Dust follows the story of Jessie, who is a zombie, (but don’t be turned off readers, it’s not your average ‘zombie-eating-people’ novel) Jessie is part of the ‘Fly-by-Nights’ gang, inhabiting and controlling woods in Indiana, trying to keep there turf from a rival gang, ‘The Rat Pack.’
Jessie loves being in her gang, and everyone in it; Florian a dust withered corpse. She is also in love with Joe, who is being eaten away by magots.
Jessie loves the life she lives now. Loves the stories her fellow gang members tell her, like of Florian’s beach, the shores of Lake Michigan.
When weird things, with no reasons begin to happen, like Teresa (gang leader) leaving for days and coming back with no explanation. And especially the local hoos (humans) come staggering through the woods, smelling the same, Jessie is both appalled and curious.
That, is up until Jessie comes across her brother Jim, the world as she knows it spirals rapidly down hill. Will she survive the deadly disease going around?
I found myself thinking of whether zombies really do exist, when reading this novel. Sure call me a freak but how many so-called ‘deaths’ have really been zombie related?
The writing techniques used by the author is one that should be awarded. She made the characters both adaptable and realistic. The descriptive language she wrote with, really brought you into the story, it was like you were there with the characters.
My favourite part of this novel has to be when Jessie encounters death, who takes the form of a different person she has lost, from Joe to Jim to Florian. Death tries to play Jessie, but her mind is pre-occupied with the thoughts of Florian’s beach, and she does not fall into Death’s trap.
The novel itself is powerful, clever, funny and plain and simply brilliant. It is a novel i would highly recommend to teens and up. It opens up your eyes to a whole different side of the whole zombie world.
So here’s my rating;
5/5 :)
The next novel I hope to review is Lauren Kate’s Torment the sequel to the stunning Fallen.
Don’t forget to follow my on Twitter;
Chat soon bloggers;
Leanne xxx
No comments:
Post a Comment