The Dead Tossed Waves
May 2, 2010
The Dead Tossed Waves
Companion to The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Author: Carrie Ryan
Reading level: Young Adult
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
(March 9, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385736843
ISBN-13: 978-0385736848
The Dew reviewed The Forest of Hands and Teeth on January 27th and was eager to continue the story as it quite left you hanging as to the outcome. The Dead Tossed Waves is a companion book, meaning the story revolves loosely, and in surprising ways, around the first story but it is not what I would consider a continuation.
The world has long been taken over by the "infection", which is basically.... zombies. Zombies have taken over the world and humankind now lives in little protected pockets surrounded by high fences. There are big cities that are safe, but you have to earn your way into them and so most people live with the fear of a wall breach by the zombies always in the back of their mind.
Gabry's mom is Mary, the main character of the first book. But Mary has stayed a quiet, mysterious woman who no one from town ever people once lived in the Forest of Hands and Teeth. She now runs the lighthouse and her job is to go out and decapitate the zombies, or Mudo, that wash up on the beach. They never die you see, even while drowned in the ocean.
Gabry's peaceful safe life takes a terrible turn when the teens in the village decide to climb the wall and leave the safety of their village to run around in a old, desolate amusement park. This is completely against the rules of the village.
I don't want to say more as it would give much of the story away, but this one event changes Gabry's, and her friends, lives forever. Gabry finds herself on a quest for her past into the Forest of Hands and Teeth with two boys/men - one who may be who she wants to spend her future with...if there is a future.
As with the first book, this is a story that is gripping to a young adult, or to their mom. :)
I am saving both books for my daughter when she's old enough to read them.
