SuitabookZomburbia
Adam Gallardo
- Reading
- Consider checking in before and during the story about zombie attacks and loss, especially its account of suicide. You could pause after a death or intense scene and let the reader choose whether to continue.
- Themes
- Selling Vitamin Z: Courtney sells a hallucinogenic drug made from zombie brains to help fund her plan to leave town for college. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Death and mourning: The book addresses death and mourning; the detail of how it is developed remains unclear. The deaths and different responses to them bring loss and friendship into the story’s survival setting.
- A changing threat: Some zombies are becoming faster or smarter after years in which people have grown accustomed to their slow movement. The changing behaviour unsettles a world whose routines have formed around the undead.
- Worth knowing
- Expect zombie attacks and deaths, including a friend’s death by suicide through exposure to zombies.