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Title	:	The Boy on the Bridge (The Girl With All the Gifts #2)
Author	:	M.R. Carey
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 369 pages
Published	:	May 2nd 2017 by Orbit
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Science Fiction. Zombies. Dystopia. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic

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oooh, goodreads choice awards semifinalist for best horror! what will happen? the bleak philosophy of the post-apocalyptic world: …he doesn’t see what’s so great about leaving your mark on things. You have a life and then it ends and you’re dead. Living it is the point, not proving to other people that you were there. The whole thing is really just water pouring down a plughole, but that’s absolutely fine. Standing water gets stagnant. i’m sure this is something i knew and just forgot in the period between when i first heard about this book and when i got my hands on an arc, but this book is a prequel to The Girl with All the Gifts. got that?? a PREQUEL. so don’t be like me, spending the first 2/3 of the book in a state of panic, fretting that you’ve forgotten characters’ relationships to each other during the three/four years' worth of books you've read since then, struggling to even remember what happened in The Girl with All the Gifts beyond the very memorable stuff, because for the most part, none of that matters. there’s an exciting little blip of an event at the end that ties the two books together, and no doubt there are smaller connections that will be noticed by readers who have read these closer together, but i can personally reassure you that they are seasoning only, and forgetting details from the first book will not hinder your appreciation of this one. phew. all the stuff that made the first book so much fun is back - the nom nom of the zombies, or ‘hungries,’ and the specific traits and mode-of-contagion that make them stand out from other literary nom noms. however, like all the best books in this particular genre, the zombies aren’t the main focus here. they’re certainly present, as obstacles to maneuver around, as threats that will infect or eat you, as constant reminders of “this is what happens to our dead now,” but they are far from the only threat in a world where humans have been thrust into survival mode, caught in the transition between the social codes that worked back when the world was more civilized and the newly brutal necessities of surviving. the scope is small - it focuses upon the passengers of the rosalind franklin, a tricked-out, armored motor home known affectionately as “rosie.” in her claustrophobic quarters, five scientists, six military personnel, and a fifteen-year-old boy named stephen are in the middle of a fifteen-month mission, departing from the english town of beacon (nod to gwatg) into scotland, collecting data left in caches by previous expeditions along the way, and gathering fresh specimens of their own in order to understand the phenomenon and hopefully find a cure. stephen is a young genius with severe social anxiety, the inventor of e-blocker gel; the goop that prevents zombies from smelling tasty human prey, but he is still seen as a liability by the soldiers on board the rosie, as he has a tendency to wander off, single-mindedly pursuing his own research, keeping his findings to himself. he’s a part of the science team while being completely independent, his only viable relationship is with dr. samrina khan; the woman who rescued him after both his parents died, and the only one allowed to touch him, if only with the tip of her finger. she loves stephen and feels responsible for him, but she’s somewhat distracted by an unexpected pregnancy, unsure what will happen when her baby comes, and the state of the world she is bringing new life into. well-armed and -trained men and women, brilliant scientists, and a teenage savant heading out into the wastes to save the world. seems pretty promising. however, people are people, and even with one goal to unite them, there’s plenty to divide them - the strain of close quarters, sexual dalliances, power plays, resentment, questionable reputations, the threat of aggressive bands of junkers, the choice between following orders vs. making informed decisions, the pressure of saving the human race from inevitable destruction, and one person in secret communication with beacon, being issued orders that might not have the team’s best interests in mind. and then the game changes. in carey’s imagining, the undead are mindless, static until they sense a warm meal. …a few hungries stand at street corners as though they’re waiting for someone to come and lead them back into the lives they lost. They will stand like this until their body’s systems fail, barring occasional headlong sprints in pursuit of local fauna. It’s an afterlife that not even the grimmest and least user-friendly of the old world’s religions ever imagined. on one of stephen’s unsanctioned journeys, he discovers a band of feral children who display the inhuman speed and predatory characteristics of the hungries, but the communication, strategy and mental acuity of humans. which discovery he, naturally, keeps to himself for his own investigations. and that’s when things get really messy. i’m pretty sure this would be satisfying as a standalone, but it would be doing yourself a disservice to miss out on gwatg, since that one is SO MUCH FUN, and more action-y overall. this one takes its time to get going; developing characters, supplying backstory, setting the scene, which for me was slow going because half my brain was preoccupied with "am i supposed to remember these people? because i so don't remember these people!" but there's plenty of payoff, and i am hoping there's still more to come! come to my blog!

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Original Title:	The Boy on the Bridge
ISBN:	0316300330 (ISBN13: 9780316300339)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Girl With All the Gifts #2
Literary Awards:	British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award) (2018), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Horror (2017)

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I decided that this book was worth another try at a real review and take my chances that Goodreads software won't lose it again. The Boy on a Bridge is worth another chance at a decent review. It's one of the best books I've read in a long time. M R Carey seems to be on a roll with this one coming on the heels of The Girl With All the Gifts.The Cordyceps fungus has wiped out most of the world's population. How it started no one really knows but they do know that one bite from a person who has it

This is the prequel to The Girl with All the Gifts and takes place about 20 years before. It involves the crew (military and scientists) of the Rosalind Franklin, AKA Rosie. They leave one of the only known survivor camps called Beacon to investigate the hungries and search for a cure or any knowledge that will help them understand the disease. Unbeknownst to the crew, there are some political actions taking place. The crew has a spy/traitor. Two of the crew members have fraternized and one is

The beginning and end - simply stunning. The middle - a giant cesspool of infected matterThank goodness that the plot holes from the first book (The Girl with All the Gifts) were patched and filled in. And I was delighted that the hopeless-ending from the first book was wrapped up beautifully in this book's epilogue. For that alone, the book gets 3-stars but that middle? Completely ruined the novel. Why? It was the same as the first novel. Between the similar narration and the overlapping plot,

oooh, goodreads choice awards semifinalist for best horror! what will happen?the bleak philosophy of the post-apocalyptic world:he doesnt see whats so great about leaving your mark on things. You have a life and then it ends and youre dead. Living it is the point, not proving to other people that you were there. The whole thing is really just water pouring down a plughole, but thats absolutely fine. Standing water gets stagnant.im sure this is something i knew and just forgot in the period

I really love the clean, scientific style with which M.R. Carey writes zombies. Its completely engaging, and less of a gory, chomping, blood-splattering mess, and more asking human questions. This was the story of what happened to one of the scientific expedition tank/car/busses that went out ten years before the events of The Girl With All the Gifts and was never seen again. Of course, we see it in that book, but never have any answers. Seeing it, and having *some* clue as to whats going to

The Girl With All the Gifts easily became one of my five-star reads of 2014, the year I read it. But I hesitated to pick up this chronological 'prequel' because I couldn't see how Carey could recapture the fabulous combination of innocence, self-discovery, world-building, and disaster that characterized the first book. Sadly, he doesn't.In this book, a team of twelve is headed off in the Rosalind to retrieve samples from the Charles Darwin expedition, as well as conduct their own research, in

3.5 stars! The Boy on the Bridge is the, (at least for me), eagerly awaited prequel to The Girl With All the Gifts. This book tells the story of how the abandoned tank/lab they found in TGWAtG, the Rosalind Franklin, got to be where she was and what happened to her crew. It also tells the story of a special boy on board, (who was possibly autistic?), along with the crew consisting of both military and civilian/scientific contingents. They are ordered out to reconnoiter and to collect lab