Happy Friday!
It is the 2nd Friday of the month, and that means I share with you what I am reading or writing, and I have successfully finished the book I'd been lazily reading since April and a whole comic book saga (The Dark Phoenix Saga, which was hilariously bad, but nostalgia), and have started a web series as well as a new book! And by new, I mean another book, because I bought it December 2020.
Justina Ireland's Deathless Divide, the sequel to Dread Nation, returns us to post-slavery, zombie-riddled America with Jane McKeene, zombie fighter extraordinaire, and this time, we also get to look through the eyes of her fellow fighter and former rival Katherine Devereaux as the girls try to get to California a la Oregon Trail...with zombies (they're not really taking the Oregon Trail, but could you imagine!).
This might be one of my favorite covers. Some covers with the characters on them tend to miss the mark, and these two really bring to life Jane and Kate for me, except Kate is described as light enough to pass for white, but that's the only difference. I can imagine her being out in the sun would give her this complexion. But anyway, the juxtaposition of their clothes also enhances it for me. Jane dresses to fight. Kate dresses to remain a lady. I do think it's funny, where I've gotten so far, that she keeps cutting off pieces of her petticoats to clean things. She's resourceful, I'll give her that.
I just started reading this on Tuesday, so I haven't run into any more shamblers (what they call zombies), but getting to see Kate's POV, we do get to read more about her ace/aro leanings. Seeing what Jane goes through with her on/off beau Jackson, Kate expressly says she will never feel that kind of push-pull and would never even sign up for it. It's great to see.
If you haven't read Dread Nation yet, I highly recommend it, and I don't even like zombies. I definitely remember yelling in fear reading the first book, so I expect nothing less with this one.
Here is the blurb:
After
the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler:
Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her
mother.
But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting
down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a
protected village called Nicodemus has Jane questioning everything she
thought she knew about surviving in 1880's America.
What's more,
this safe haven is not what it appears - as Jane discovers when she sees
familiar faces from Summerland amid this new society. Caught between
mysteries and lies, the undead, and her own inner demons, Jane soon
finds herself on a dark path of blood and violence that threatens to
consume her.
But she won't be in it alone.
Katherine
Deveraux never expected to be allied with Jane McKeene. But after the
hell she has endured, she knows friends are hard to come by - and that
Jane needs her, too, whether Jane wants to admit it or not.
Watching
Jane's back, however, is more than she bargained for, and when they
both reach a breaking point, it's up to Katherine to keep hope alive -
even as she begins to fear that there is no happily-ever-after for girls
like her.
What are you reading this month?
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