The Enemy by Charlie Higson

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Another Good Zombie Story.  This one is Lord of the Flies meets 20 Days Later.  In the not to distant future, London, and the rest of the world has fallen victim to a strange and horrible plague.  The sickness affected only people over the age of 16.  Everyone over 16 has been afflicted with a sickness that wiped out almost every adult.  Those who survived are flesh eating animals.  The kids are the only reasonable people left and they are trying to etch out an existence while avoiding starvation and gangs of flesh eating zombie adults.  

The book could have been cheesy, but it is poignant.  In the fashion of Golding, the author manages to portray kids and early teens as they are, and could be.  Higson shows us many sides of the main characters, and tells the story from the point of view of many different characters.  The story sucked me in and didn’t let go until the end.  Every time you think you know what’s going to happen next, you are surprised.  This is how a zombie story should be. the zombies are the backdrop for the real action...how the kids interact.  READ IT!