AH and Regina did an excellent review of this book here...http://badassbookreviews.com/review-the-reapers-are-the-angels-by-alden-bell/or you can read my much less exciting review below...4.5 stars out of 5If you could take all the strong, fearless, intelligent, compassionate female characters from all the books you have read, you'll come close to Temple's character.If you take all the screwed up, guilt ridden, angry, sad female characters from the books you have read, you'll come close to Temple's character.Temple will go down as one of the most memorable characters I've had the pleasure reading about in a long time.The zombies, the adventure across the country, is just the setting for the reader to meet and love Temple. It is a good thing too since there is alot wrong with the world building in this book. In fact, there is none. Why are the shelves still stocked with plenty of food? How is there still gas? How are the trains running? What caused people to turn into zombies? And so on and so on. Even with the lack of world building, the book was incredible!There is an incredible set of minor characters in the book as well. I fell hard for Maury. A wordless man that spoke volumes about love, compassion and gentleness.Oh and one more annoying point- There are no quotation marks. I'm not sure why, but not one quotation mark. I easily would have given this book 5 stars but I had to take a half star off due to the lack of world building and the lack of quotation marks. One of the best books I've read in 2011!
