Review: The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Review: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

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Title:	The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Author:	Ryan, Carrie
Publisher:	Delacorte Books
Pages:	336

People have recommend that I read Carrie Ryan’s” The Forest of Hands and Teeth for some time now. I was always hesitant stating the fact that I dislike zombies, and flesh eating, and rotting corpses and really anything undead that isn’t a vampire. Finally in search of a great book to read and after watching the trailer 50 times over the past few months (this book should really be a movie) I ordered the book and it came in the mail yesterday. I was immediately swept up in Mary’s story and feeling claustrophobic with her as she lived her life fenced in her small village ran by religious zealots.

Carrie Ryan created a world many generations after the zombie apocalypse (hey we all know its coming with all the wonky stuff they are doing in labs now) and what life is like for the few who survived the initial outbreak.

Author Carrie Ryan

Mary’s Mother told her there was an ocean with water full of salt as far as you could see. No one else in the village save for Mary believes these tales and when Mary is forced with the decisions pressured on her by her circumstances. Who to marry, to become a sister, or to run on a new path to find the ocean she is hit with many hardships with all her choices.

I gave this 4 out of 5 stars only because I wish we would have learned more of the secrets along the way. So many things were hinted about but left open. Maybe that is resolved in the next book which seems to pick up with Mary’s daughter possibly from the description.

THE DEAD-TOSSED WAVES

Coming March 2010

Gabry lives a quiet life, secure in her town next to the sea and behind the Barrier. She’s content to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she watches from the top of her lighthouse. Home is all she’s ever known, and all she needs for happiness.

But life after the Return is never safe, and there are threats even the Barrier can’t hold back.

Gabry’s mother thought she left her secrets behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, but like the dead in their world, secrets don’t stay buried. And now, Gabry’s world is crumbling.

One night beyond the Barrier…

One boy Gabry’s known forever and one veiled in mystery…

One reckless moment, and half of Gabry’s generation is dead, the other half imprisoned.

Gabry knows only one thing: if she is to have any hope of a future, she must face the forest of her mother’s past.

Tags: carrie ryan, Teen, teen fiction, the forest of hands and teeth, YA, ya fiction, zombie

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9 Responses so far

November 20th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
By: Beth F

Gabby is Gabriel — the girl in red.
November 20th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
By: Pam

Ah I thought Gabry was from the Unconsecrated town on the way that they found with the house and the old newspapers. I thought they were picking up later still even. Makes sense to tell the girl in red’s story, I like that.
November 20th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
By: Catherine

I think there are a lot of stories that could be told, and I do like the idea of doing Gabriel’s one. Would make a nice companion to Mary’s story, IMO.

I’m glad you liked this one – I did too. Can’t wait for Dead-Tossed Waves.
November 20th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
By: Yunaleska

It’s the front cover that lured me in to check out this review – and now I’ve read it I really want it!
November 21st, 2009 at 8:55 am
By: Pam

@Catherine: I thought they found Gabriel’s village though, and it was not at the sea?

@Yunaleska: It took me a while to pick this one up too but I am so glad that I did!
November 21st, 2009 at 8:57 pm
By: heidenkind

I will definitely read this book someday soon; it’s been in my TBR forever.
November 22nd, 2009 at 4:31 pm
By: Becky at One Literature Nut

I can’t wait for the second book!!! I’m glad you got to read it and post your review. I love seeing what others thought. I walked into it with no idea what was going to be in it, so I kept trying to figure out what in the heck was going on! I’m glad to see I wasn’t the only one!
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:46 am
By: Serena (Savvy Verse & Wit)

So many wonderful reviewers have praised this book. I think I’m convinced…off to put it on the wish list. Thanks for the great review.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:22 am
By: Jen - Devourer of Books

I think this ended up as a 3/5 or so for me for the same reason you knocked it down to a 4. Not learning the secrets made me unhappy with her world building, I wasn’t able to just relax into her creation without at least some hints about the secrets. I’ll be waiting to hear if the next book reveals more. If not, I likely won’t read it.