It is unlikely that
I would have read a novel about Zombies if there hadn’t been a
“gay” interest, and I am probably pleased that this one wasn’t
really about “Zombies”.
There might be a
feel spoilers coming so if that worries you – look away now.
You have this small,
isolated, community in which Peter is in many ways probably
stereotypically “gay” and Cooper is archetypal “All American”
boy – but they find both love and lust for each other, and their
community seems not only accepting but actively supportive of their
same-sex relationship.
But then you throw
in the “Restless” - their term for the undead / zombies – and
here there is prejudice, a crude “othering” that has reduced all
the “Restless” to the same category of monsters – yet the
discover Peter and Cooper make is that not all the “Restless” are
the same – some retain their humanity – and so they have to
confront their community’s prejudice.
It is a not easy to
challenge prejudice – and the fall out in this case will have left
deep scars in the community – but the pain of honesty is better
than the suffering of deceit.
I was completely
gripped by this story – a great début work – lets hope there
will be more to follow...
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