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Violence
A lot
Regular zombie violence and death; characters are killed throughout
Language
Barely any
Mild language in the YA register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild YA romantic content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
The weight of a world where survival is never guaranteed and loss is constant creates the series' characteristic melancholy
What this book is about
The second Forest of Hands and Teeth novel follows Gabry, who has grown up in a village protected from the Unconsecrated (zombies). One night beyond the barrier changes everything, and Gabry is forced into the same world of relentless death and survival as the previous novel's protagonist. Ryan's zombie-apocalypse series is literary YA horror — the tone is elegiac and the stakes are real. Violence is significant throughout.
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Regular zombie violence and character deaths
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