April 1, 2020

5*Review: WORLD DEPARTED by Sarah Lyons Fleming

Title: WORLD DEPARTED

Author: Sarah Lyons Fleming

Source: KU



Goodreads....

In the zombie apocalypse, your worst enemy may be yourself.
From the Until the End of the World and City Series universe comes the story of the virus on the West Coast. Where the end of the world is only the beginning…
Rose Winter has enough problems. With a marriage going down the tubes and a dreaded anniversary party on the horizon, the last thing she needs is the zombie apocalypse. She wanted to get drunk and sing karaoke, not murder her undead neighbors. It’s clear the party’s over, however, and now Rose has more problems—a missing husband, an overbearing houseguest, and keeping her family alive.
Tom Jensen has inflexible rules. Rule number one? Don’t deviate from the plan. But when his life is overturned in the space of minutes, his plans die along with everything else. The world is finished, the future is uncertain, and survival means living in the last place he’d planned to be. Maybe his rules weren’t meant to be broken, but if he can’t change his tune, he risks losing the one thing he has left—his daughter.
Craig Matthews has a mission: get to Oregon. Doable, maybe, if he could bring himself to leave his apartment. With his food and water near gone and death closer than ever, a chance encounter may lead to finding his friends—if he can first find his courage.
Unfortunately, the new world doesn’t always mean leaving old problems behind, and as the West Coast succumbs to the virus, the survivors face more than the undead—they face themselves. But in an existence where fences offer dubious safety and zombies certain danger, people may save you in more ways than one.

My take...
I am once again blown away by another one of Fleming’s books. It was absolutely fantastic. I adored all the characters and the stories they had told throughout the book. It was exciting and entertaining. And it had one of my favorite parts to any zombie story: a beginning. Nothing I love more than seeing an epidemic start up. Strangely, I started reading this one right after it’s release, which was when the Coronavirus was amping up here in the US. But dude!! This book was a beast. It was forever long. Not complaining. I love a book that is long as long as I am loving the story. And love it, I did. All the stars!!

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