The Forest of Hands and Feet by Carrie Ryan
Ryan, C. (2009). The forest of hands and feet. New York:
Delacorte Press.
When Twilight launched an international obsession with vampires and werewolves, it seemed like authors, television producers and moviemakers all tried to jump on the bloodsucking bandwagon as they tried to do imitation spin-offs of Stephanie Meyer’s creations. By contrast, Carrie Ryan is to be commended for using zombies as the focus of her The Forest of Hands and Feet. While the undead are not her personal creation, they have been used so relatively little for science fiction stories that Ryan was going down a literary road less traveled.
If you think about it, a moldy, walking corpse can hardly capture teenage fantasies as well as an Edward Cullen. But Ryan more than compensates for this by giving us an exceptionally well-crafted heroine in Mary. This young lady is at once both vulnerable and courageous; yearning for love as much as she is confused and frightened by it. The thing I liked best about The Forest of Hands and Feet was the writing style. Obviously a zombie story is science fiction. But Carrie Ryan’s storytelling was so good that I could also imagine this book on the romance, mystery and thriller shelves in a library.
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