The Reapers are the Angels

The Reapers are the Angels
by Alden Bell

Temple is a teenager with excellent survival skills and provides for herself in the zombie wasteland (think Katniss, but with zombies).  The book is written in third person, but is exclusively from Temple's point of view and in her own English patois.  I really liked this book until the end.  I would have gladly paid for a series of books about Temple and her journey through the zombie wasteland.  How would Temple deal with Moses Todd (he chases her throughout the book) over time?  Would she start her own enclave of survivors or keep moving with her charge, Maury?

Then, the end happened.  I don't want to give it away because I'm still going to recommend you read this book.  But.  It's almost as if Temple changed into a different, weaker character.  I get that it's supposed to be redemption of another character in their grief over her but I feel that character does not deserve to be redeemed, not that way.  Perhaps that's the point.  In a zombie wasteland, good people get deaths they don't deserve while people with shady, ridiculous motives survive because the good people are too honorable to kill them when they should've.

Grade:  C+