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Sadie Walker Is Stranded (2012)

by Madeleine Roux(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0755379160 (ISBN13: 9780755379163)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Headline

series

Zombie

review 1: This book begins several months after the initial outbreak that the book "Allison Hewitt is Trapped" revolves around. Sadie Walker is in Seattle, it's been fortified following the outbreak and is now known as The Citadel. It's zombie free, food is rationed, buildings are torn down to make way for vegetable plots and the citizens are regaining some sense of stability as they regroup. Sadie's an artist trying to care for her young nephew Shane whose parents are both dead due to the outbreak. He's quiet and uncommunicative mostly and Sadie naturally feels tremendous responsibility for his well being, not letting him out of her sight unless it's with someone she trusts and there are few of those. All at once their "stable" life is turned upside down, Shane is kidnapped, zomb... moreies are on the streets and Seattle/the Citadel is no longer safe. Sadie has to find Shane and get out of the city. Fast. Her best friend Andrea has the answer, her uncle has a boat and they need to be on it, but Sadie insists on finding her nephew. Ok, she finds Shane (cant have him zombie fodder just yet can we?) they get on the boat with the uncle and a few other people they don't know and set off in search of safety. They actually end up stranded on an island (the clue is in the title) with very little provisions, weapons or clue as to how they'll survive. Enter the love interest. Sadie's out hunting soon after their arrival and she saves a man's life, she needs medical attention though so he takes her to his camp (paradise compared to theirs) and tends her wounds. Sadie's group moves camp taking the pressure of their survival off slightly. But not all is what it seems. There are zombies on the island to contend with but strange things start happening and people start dying and soon suspicion and paranoia grows, can she trust anyone? This book had me gripped from the start, characters are diverse, there's plenty of action, dilemmas, humour, twists and turns to keep you reading. I highly recommend it. This book can stand alone, there are a couple of references to Allison Hewitt by our heroine as in "what would Allison do?" When she's in a bind but she explains about Allison's blog early on and what little she knows of her so it's not essential to have read the first book but its fab so treat yourself :-)
review 2: I think that i liked Alison Hewitt is Trapped better. While both of these books were written in the first person narrative, the thing that i liked better about Alison Hewitt is that it was written in blog style, which is very different from the way a lot of other novels are written. I like both of the women; they are strong and independent and don't get all whiny and childlike when zombies take over the world. I hope that, should a zombie apocalypse ever happen, I am lucky enough to be able to that strong. If I survive :) less

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