Book: Kiss of Life(Generation Dead book 2) by Daniel Waters
Rating: 4 Stars
Summary:
The phenomenon that’s been sweeping the country seems to be here to stay. Not only are the teenagers who have come back from their graves still here, but newlydeads are being unearthed all the time. While scientists look for answers and politicians take their stands, the undead population of Oakvale have banded together in a group they’re calling the Sons of Romero, hoping to find solidarity in segregation.

Phoebe Kendall may be alive, but she feels just as lost and alone as her dead friends. Just when she reconciled herself to having feelings for a zombie — her Homecoming date Tommy Williams — her friend Adam is murdered taking a bullet that was meant for her. Things get even more confusing when Adam comes back from the grave. Now she has romantic interest in two dead boys; one who saved her life, and one she can’t seem to live without.

Overall:

WARNING: If you have not read Generation Dead, this review will contain SPOILERS. DO NOT CONTINUE if you haven’t read it!

Welcome back to the world of zombies. Teenagers in America are continuing to rise from the dead and return to a semblance of life. Not everyone returns as a zombie and not everyone is happy about all the people that do return as zombies.

At the end of Generation Dead, Adam took a bullet to save Phoebe’s life. As a result, he died and returned as a zombie, but without most of his regular functions. He can barely walk, talk, or do anything without the help of somebody. Surprisingly, his family has taken him in more than they did when he was alive.

Phoebe has also started to take more of an interest in Adam now that she realizes his feelings for her. Adam had always loved Phoebe, but always from afar, and it seemed like his chance was gone when Tommy and Phoebe started dating but when Adam saved her life, she saw how much he truly meant to her.

Since he has been back, Phoebe has been spending all her time with Adam but things don’t seem to be going anywhere. She knows that it is all her fault that he is now dead but she still can’t seem to decide whether or not she loves him or Tommy. Tommy never really seemed to love her, but the idea of her, and Adam doesn’t seem to love her at all anymore.

Meanwhile, some a group of renegade zombies has decided that they need to take action against the crimes that are being committed against zombies all over the nation. Most of their actions are just stupid pranks but when things go wrong and people start going missing, the zombies are always the first to blame. And there group has only made them seem more like the guilty party.

Will Adam and Phoebe ever truly be together or will Tommy always stand in their way? Will the nation ever find out the truth about the crimes committed to frame the zombies? Who will live and who will die, for good?

Kiss of Life was a fantastic sequel to Generation Dead. Daniel Waters continues to do an amazing job of revealing the true nature of the zombies’ thoughts and feelings, along with showing the continuing discrimination against them. These are definitely not the flesh-eating zombies of the past, but a new kind, one that only wants to live in peace with the living.

To find out more, you can actually visit the main character, Tommy’s, blog at mysocalledundeath.com.

Kiss of Life will be released on May 12 and you can pre-order it here.