As she chooses to leave the Dark City to make her own path and discover what may have happened to her family in the forest, fate has her come across a girl that looks like a smoother, unscarred version of herself – Annah’s twin sister, Gabry. Keeping her head down to avoid the cruel, prying eyes of others, Annah makes her solitary way through a bleak life of endless gray, clinging to the hope that Elias will soon return to her.Īfter three years without word from Elias, though, Annah must deal with the reality that he may not ever be returning. But when Elias decides to leave and join the Recruiters, the protective forces charged with hunting down the infected undead, Annah is left alone for the first time and forced to fend for herself. In the maze of brutal desperation that is the Dark City, Annah and Elias have grown up pretending to be brother and sister, clinging to each other for solace. When she was five, she survived the Forest of Hands and Teeth with the help of her friend Elias – though it came at the cost of leaving her twin sister behind. The only reason I took so long reading this book is because I didn’t want the series to end… is that selfish of me?įor every year of her life, the scarred, isolated Annah has survived and endured.
Why did I read this book: I absolutely loved The Forest of Hands and Teeth – it was one of my top 10 books of 2008 – and while I wasn’t quite as blown away by The Dead-Tossed Waves, the second book in the series, I loved the book and eagerly awaited the third novel. Stand alone or series: Book 3 in the Forest of Hands and Teeth series
And now it’s up to Annah: can she continue to live in a world covered in the blood of the living? Or is death the only escape from the Return’s destruction? Dark, terrifying truths that link him to a past Annah has longed to forget, and to a future too deadly to consider. Until she meets Catcher, and everything feels alive again.īut Catcher has his own secrets. Somehow, without him, her life doesn’t feel much different than the dead that roam the wasted city around her. But most of all, Annah would like to forget the morning Elias left her for the Recruiters.Īnnah’s world stopped that day, and she’s been waiting for Elias to come home ever since. There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister’s face before Annah left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the Horde as they swarmed the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. Publication Date: March 2011 (US) / April 2011 (UK) Publisher: Delacorte (US) / Gollancz (UK) Genre: Speculative Fiction, Horror, Post-Apocalypse/Dystopia, Young Adult
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