The Infects

I love it when a book surprises me, and this one did! Truth be told, I thought the plot sounded interesting and my husband has this thing for zombies so I gave it a try. In the first few pages, I loved Nick. I wanted to hang out with him, I wanted to play video games with him, I wanted to fight zombies and kick ass with him. The way Sean Beaudoin writes his characters is with humor, sarcasm and heart. Sounds like an odd combination, I know, but it works!

The books had so much to like about it that I even found myself enjoying the unique formatting things he did inside the book with adding menus, notes, and police reports and the 'drops' at the beginning of each chapter. Unique and interesting. I'm a fan!

Please, put this book on your to be read list. Pick it up when it comes out. You won't be sorry- unless a zombie gets you then you're kinda screwed...

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The Infects

The Infects by Sean Beaudoin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I received this book from NetGalley.

Nick is your typical teenage boy. His parents are divorced, his dad has gone off the deep end so Nick helps take care of his sister Amanda who has Aspbergers, when he’s not in high school or working at Rebozzo Aviraculture. (aka a chicken factory) Things in his life are moving along: There’s a girl he wants to ask out, he gets a promotion at work, slices open his hand, gets fired- then arrested and sent to a camp for troubled youth where he is given the handle Nero. And if that’s not enough, the camp's attacked by zombies. Nothing too strange, right?

The Infects is an unusually awesome book that is funny, irreverent, campy and clever. And I love clever. The story is told in a great, masculine, voice that is very authentic. You want to hear more from Nick/Nero and get his take on things. Where many teen/YA books are geared toward girls and romance, this story will grab both male and female readers a like. Girls will most definitely want to date Nick, and guys will want to follow him into the book and take on some zombies.

If you want to go on a wild ride through a zombie filled camp for troubled youth, this is your book.
If you want to read a book that looks at the messed up world world from the view of a teenage guy, this is your book.
If you love chicken, laughter, adventure, gore, girls and zombies, don’t walk, RUN out and get this book. But keep one eye open for zombies when you do…

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Close Enough to Touch

Victoria Dahl is an author I've wanted to read for a while now, but other things have seems to have kept getting in my way. Then one of her books popped up at NetGalley and I was lucky enough to give it a read. I have to say, I'll definitely be reading more of her books. Close Enough to Touch had great characters, an interesting town full of personalities that made you smile and a couple that couldn't have been more different. but somehow she weaved everything together into a believable attraction and rocky relationship.

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Close Enough to Touch

Close Enough to Touch by Victoria Dahl
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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Grace Barrett leaves LA in a whirlwind of trouble. An ex she owes money, a job she was fired from, and no family to speak of- except a great-aunt in Jackson, Wyoming. Out of options, she packs her all her worldly possessions into a duffle bag and catches the first bus out of LA, never looking back. Guilt and shame follow her to the small town as she realizes she has no idea where she’s going or how to contact her aunt. The locals help her find her way, get her on the bus and send her to her great-aunt’s place, cheekily known as the “stud Farm’ because the aging woman only rents the apartments in her building to young men who are easy on the eyes. With great apprehension, Grace decides to stay, but only for a month as a stop-over on her way to Toronto where she feels she will be able to find work in the film business like she had been working as a makeup artist in LA before her rapid departure. Wanting nothing more than a roof over her head and a place to try and earn a little money over the next few weeks, Grace’s plans are complicated by the sexy cowboy in the apartment across the hall.

Cole Rawlins’ life wasn’t all rodeos and cowgirls. Recovering from a very serious accident he was still on restrictions because of his recovering leg and pelvis fractures. Physical therapy hadn’t cured him yet and most days it felt like things might never go back to how they were, before that horse had trampled on his leg, ruining his plans. Cole had worked at Easy Creek for years and had plans to buy the place once Mr. Easy retired, which was going to be any day now. He had worked his way through the ranks of the ranch until his injury sidelined him from everything he loved. Not one to sit still, he pushed himself physically to recover, but deep down he was terrified he might never be the same. When a purple-haired woman blows into town and catches his eye, she becomes a nice distraction as he awaits word from the doctor about if he will ever be able to ride again.

Secrets from both their pasts cannot be avoided and trouble has a way of following Grace and Cole. Running away from things hasn’t worked for either one of them in the past and when a movie production team comes to town scouting locations to shoot a few scenes from a movie, things come to a head. Ex’s cause trouble and fears keep Grace from being able to commit. Together they struggle to keep their feet beneath them in this fragile relationship as the urge to run grown in Grace rather than fight for what she wants.

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