The Girl With All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts #1)

Melanie is a very special girl Dr Caldwell calls her our little genius Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair She thinks they don t like her She jokes that she won t bite, but they don t laugh.Melanie loves school She loves learning about spelling and sums and the world outside the classroom and the children s cells She tells her favorite teacher all the things she ll do when she grows up Melanie doesn t know why this makes Miss Justineau look sad The Girl with All the Gifts is a sensational thriller, perfect for fans of Stephen King, Justin Cronin, and Neil Gaiman. Download The Girl With All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts #1) – kino-fada.fr And then like Pandora, opening the great big box of the world and not being afraid, not even caring whether what s inside is good or bad Because it s both Everything is always both But you have to open it to find that outI have to say that I m not much of a traditional zombie fan moaning, slow walking dead people are neither interesting nor scary to me but there is nothing traditional abo...You d think by now we would have reached peak zombie, right I mean, there s only so much you can do with a genre But Carey mines the territory for new gold and finds it The Girl with All the Gifts opens in the strangest classroom ever And as a teacher, I ve seen some pretty strange classrooms After the zombie apocalypse in England, some infected children have, for reasons unknown, been turned into zombies but have also retained their human intelligence Melanie is the research lab s sta You d think by now we would have reached peak zombie, right I mean, there s only so much you can do with a genre But Carey mines the territory for new gold and finds it The Girl with All the Gifts opens in the strangest classroom ever And as a teacher, I ve seen some pretty strange classrooms After the zombie apocalypse in England, some infected children have, for reasons unknown, been turned into zombies but have also retained their human intelligence Melanie is the research lab s star pupil Along with her classmates, who are all strapped in their chairs to keep them from, you know, eating the human teacher, they go through lessons and read stories, so the scientists can try to understand what makes these bright young zombies tick Melanie is not really aware of what she is, or why she is there This school is the only life she s ever known But she is aware that once in a while her classmates disappear into the lab and never come b...Creepy, eerie, unexpected I enjoyed this oneThis is the story of a girl, locked in a room, who is strapped into a chair every morning while a man holds a gun to her head She s wheeled into a classroom in which there are other kids strapped into chairs just like hers, where a woman teaches them lessons that they will probably never need to learn.This book is like a fantastic combination ofthe scrupulously researched medical thr...now no one can yell at me ever again another tricky to review book i think it s safe to discuss the fact that this book is about zombies that cat is outta that bag but it s one of those new spins on the zombie tale, like Raising Stony Mayhall and Zone One and The Reapers are the Angels, where the focus is not run away from zombies aaaaaahhhh, but one which comes at the zombie story from a social philosophy angle as the survivors struggle with t now no one can yell at me ever again another tricky to review book i think it s safe to discuss the fact that this book is about zombies that cat is outta that bag but it s one of those new spins on the zombie tale, like Raising Stony Mayhall and Zone One and The Reapers are the Angels, where the focus is not run away from zombies aaaaaahhhh, but one which comes at the zombie story from a social philosophy angle as the survivors struggle with the responsibility of remaining human and redefining humanity in a world in which they are outnumbered by monsters, here known as hungries which makes it sound SO zzzzzzzzz.so let me back up because there is PLENTY of action in this puppy we got guns and zombie kids and mad scientists and marauding gangs and attacks and close calls and a wallop of a reversal in the ending that kicks the predecessors of zombie lit s ass and now for some secrets, for those of you who have read the book view spoiler BE...The last book I read which was very good took me 16 weeks to get through.This one arrived yesterday morning My wife got her hands on it first and finished it by the evening I took over and have finished it 8pm on the next day today It s not a short book, 460 pages of reasonably small font It is a very compelling book The opening is the strongest I ve read in an age.It s the first book I ve bought in a long time Publishers and authors send me free books in the hope I ll read them and The last book I read which was very good took me 16 weeks to get through.This one arrived yesterday morning My wife got her hands on it first and finished it by the evening I took over and have finished it 8pm on the next day today It s not a short book, 460 pages of reasonably small font It is a very compelling book The opening is the strongest I ve read in an age.It s the first book I ve bought in a long time Publishers and authors send me free books in the hope I ll read them and say something nice, so I ve a stack of books waiting that I didn t pay for However, I only manage 10 or 12 books a year and once in a while it s nice to pick something myself.A friend, whose tastes I trust, has recommended this book forcefully and frequently for a couple of years so I caved and got it It s the sort of story that s best come to cold If someone spoils if for you it spoils it It s not that the whole thing rests on some massive twist I see dead people , just that it s so much nicer to experience it ...Ugh This book has what might be the greatest first act I ve ever read I can t describe it, because part of its wonderful tension relies on the reader s ignorance of the situation It s absolutely brilliant though, and tells a story of a tragically fascinating girl and her relationship with her teacher and the world around her It promises so much Then act two begins and almost all of that is thrown out the window for boilerplate thriller territory It is all well written, tense, and exception Ugh This book has what might be the greatest first act I ve ever read I can t describe it, because part of its wonderful tension relies on the reader s ignorance of the situation It s absolutely brilliant though, and tells a story of a tragically fascinating girl and her relationship with her teacher and the world around her It promises so much Then act two begins and almost all of that is thrown out the window for boilerplate thriller territor...The most sure footed novel I ve read all year A dystopian thriller with a real, beating heart Recommend Recommend Recommend.This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here I was duped.I thought The Girl With All the Gifts was about a girl who had all the gifts and was somehow a modern Lilith say, like, Lilith in Supernatural as the little girl and would bring about the apocalypse if she didn t learn to control her gifts.I was duped Hard.And I m glad I was I m glad the premise on the back of the book gave absolutely nothing away, only that we were going to meet a young girl by the name of Melanie, a genius and a very special girl I m glad that every detail a I was duped.I thought The Girl With All the Gifts was about a girl who had all the gifts and was somehow a modern Lilith say, like, Lilith in Supernatural as the little girl and would bring about the apocalypse if she didn t learn to control her gifts.I was duped Hard.And I m glad I was I m glad the premise on the back of the book gave absolutely nothing away, ...Since I m exactly the type of person who avoids horror at all costs, I told myself there was no chance I was ever going to give this bookthan a glance But my curiosity got the best of me, like it always seems to do And to my surprise, I devoured the hell out of this book That has a lot to do with the fact that it s a very interesting story, almost not at all horrific Some parts are a little disgusting, but neverthan that To be honest, although it s quite intriguing, I wouldn t g Since I m exactly the type of person who avoids horror at all costs, I told myself there was no chance I was ever going to give this bookthan a glance But my curiosity got the best of me, like it always seems to do And to my surprise, I devoured the hell out of this book That has a lot to do with the fact that it s a very interesting story, almost not at all horrific Some parts are a little disgusting, but neverthan that To be honest, although it s quite intriguing, I wouldn t go as far as to say that it s a never before seen type of story, si...

• English
• 04 June 2018
M.R. Carey
• Paperback
• 461 pages
• 0356500152
• M.R. Carey
• The Girl With All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts #1)