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When I first heard about Suzanne Winnacker's debut THE WEEPERS thanks to its gorgeous UK edition cover (and title of THE OTHER LIFE), I knew I had to have this book. So I got my hands on a Netgalley copy, forgot about it for a few weeks, and then came back to it when I started the Bout of Books marathon. Once again, this was a book I went in with very high expectations for, only to find myself extravagantly disappointed when I turned the last page.

THE WEEPERS follows 15 year old Sherry, a girl who has spent the past three years in a bunker beneath her house after a rabies epidemic that killed people - and turned others into zombie-like creatures. Her family has run out of food, and the only answer is for Sherry and her dad to go out and find some, but when he's captured by the monsters and she's saved by a hunter named Joshua who takes her to a safe haven along the outskirts of town, Sherry has to stand up and fight back if she is to save her family from the remnants of society.

I think my name and the phrase "WHERE IS THE WORLD BUILDING?!" have almost become synonymous. If the world building is lacking, I am going to point it out. For me, there was world building here, but what it brought to the story was nothing new or remarkable - a government experiment gone wrong. The specifics of the story here are a spoiler, so I won't go into detail, but it really isn't anything new for the zombie genre. Also, there are some rather unbelievable escapades, events, and decisions that make little or no sense. It kind of distracts you. Kinda.

But I think where this story fell flat for me was in the characterization. We have Sherry, a shell-shocked girl who loves to count the exact days since she last saw rain, last had chocolate, last heard from her best friend, and so on. I actually kind of enjoyed this - up until the point where it became a several-times-a-page thing. The story is told in her first-person narration, which helps the reader connect with Sherry and her plight, but outside of Sherry, we find a cast of very flat, cardboard characters, from Sherry's family (parents, grandmother, brother Bobby, and little sister Mia) to the designated love interest Joshua to the people we find at the safe haven. There is little development or background about these people, and the dialogue doesn't help us get to know them. By the end, I was still confused about who anyone was - Geoffrey and Tyler, for instance, are still one character in my mind.

Oh, and Sherry dear? You've known the boy for what, a week tops? That's not love. Feel free to make out with him all you like, I don't care, but don't risk your life for him when you know he's an idiot. Signed, Megan.

I don't know with this one. The story zipped along at a great pace, but it was really short. Goodreads claims it is 352 pages long and it's lying. In fact, I am going to change that when I post my review. Right when you get into the story and you are thrown into their world, guess what? The story is over! You have to wait until book two to find out anything else because the ending hits you out of nowhere almost. The pacing is excellent, I will give Winnacker that - she knows how to pull you along, and you can finish this story in two hours or so if you read at an average pace and take ice cream breaks.

My final issue with this book that leaves the story at two stars only? For a story about rabid Weepers, there aren't nearly enough. I wanted more horror, more action, and instead I got make out sessions in the vineyard and grandma knitting. I might check out book two, but I will be waiting for reviews before I make up my mind. THE WEEPERS just didn't do anything for me.

VERDICT: THE WEEPERS doesn't bring anything new to the zombie/post-apocalyptic table besides a crash-course in shoddy characters. Skip this one.


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The Other Life The Weepers Susanne Winnacker Books Reviews

When I picked up The Other Life to read I was surprised by how quickly it moved. Within half an hour I’d read a great big chunk, and the same happened throughout. This book is very fast paced and the writing style is easy to race along with, meaning that I’d finished it in just a couple of sittings.

The Other Life is also slightly predictable I could have foretold the ending after reading the first few chapters. However, that did not detract from my inability to put the book down.

I actually felt the beginning of the book to be realistic, even though I found it annoying. Being stuck for over 3 years in a sealed bunker sounds horrible and would logically be enough to drive someone mad, even more so when they are with others. To me, the portrait of a family on edge was very convincing; I mean, every family in real life has quarrels and arguments, siblings fight, parents disagree, children want to be treated like adults, and every now and then we need our space from them, no matter how much they mean to us, so imagine how it must be to be trapped together within a small compound underground for years. Sherry’s family runs out of food, they haven’t heard from anybody in months and they don’t know what’s going on. There is a lot of tension going on, people snap at each other and even small incidents result in strong emotions.

Sherry’s parents constant bickering and whining were annoying, to say the least, but it added to the realistic feel of the situation.
I actually wound up hating her parents for the rest of the book, because their attitudes were simply that annoying. Her mother was also one of the most annoying characters within the book to me, that continued to annoy me till the very end.
The most annoying one of all was Sherry's grandmother who sat around knitting the whole time. I wanted to take one of her needles and just stab her with it.

Sherry, from whose point of view we experience the whole story, counts a lot. She especially counts days; days without soap; days without sun; days without her grandfather…It’s a bit OCD, but it actually mirrors very accurately her mental state. If you don’t do anything else than waiting and nothing new ever happens, you start doing strange things to occupy your mind. It had gotten very repetitive in regards to the countdown of how many days it had been since Sherry had done this or that. The overuse of this narrative device lessened the impact of the notable moments that were truly important. But if I were coming from a realist POV rather than reader’s POV, I see the point of, again OCD…but as a reader, it simply was tedious after the first few chapters of her doing it.

I also found there to be a lack of character development. Even after finishing the book, I still have very little idea of who most of these characters are. Even with the POVs switching from the present to the past constantly, I still felt no real connection with any of the characters or that we truly were given the opportunity to see who they are.

The book also seemed to focus primarily on the romance section, rather than the post-apocalyptic, action section that is supposed to be the chief factor behind the novel.

There wasn’t enough action for a “zombie” book. There needed to be more Weepers, the books species of zombies. Since this story is all about the action, I would have liked to see more interactions and chase scenes and such.

I don't really like the romantic relationship that develops between Sherry and Joshua. In only a matter of days the two seem to be madly in love with one another and even confess their feelings half-way through. I understand that neither one had much—any—contact with the other gender, at least with someone their own age, in years, and that they are in a world where hope is everything for them…but it just happened too fast. I also am well aware of statistics showing that those that are stuck in life-threatening, or dangerous, situations with members of the opposite sex tend to develop romantic feelings for the other, that is a fact…but as I said, it was all rushed to me.

The only that is truly driving me to read the sequel The Life Beyond, beyond the fact that I despise leaving a series unfinished no matter how much I may dislike it, is the bit of a twist that was thrown in towards the end of the book. I feel that there may be an actual plot, rather than a simple romance, appearing in the next book.
When I first heard about Suzanne Winnacker's debut THE WEEPERS thanks to its gorgeous UK edition cover (and title of THE OTHER LIFE), I knew I had to have this book. So I got my hands on a Netgalley copy, forgot about it for a few weeks, and then came back to it when I started the Bout of Books marathon. Once again, this was a book I went in with very high expectations for, only to find myself extravagantly disappointed when I turned the last page.

THE WEEPERS follows 15 year old Sherry, a girl who has spent the past three years in a bunker beneath her house after a rabies epidemic that killed people - and turned others into zombie-like creatures. Her family has run out of food, and the only answer is for Sherry and her dad to go out and find some, but when he's captured by the monsters and she's saved by a hunter named Joshua who takes her to a safe haven along the outskirts of town, Sherry has to stand up and fight back if she is to save her family from the remnants of society.

I think my name and the phrase "WHERE IS THE WORLD BUILDING?!" have almost become synonymous. If the world building is lacking, I am going to point it out. For me, there was world building here, but what it brought to the story was nothing new or remarkable - a government experiment gone wrong. The specifics of the story here are a spoiler, so I won't go into detail, but it really isn't anything new for the zombie genre. Also, there are some rather unbelievable escapades, events, and decisions that make little or no sense. It kind of distracts you. Kinda.

But I think where this story fell flat for me was in the characterization. We have Sherry, a shell-shocked girl who loves to count the exact days since she last saw rain, last had chocolate, last heard from her best friend, and so on. I actually kind of enjoyed this - up until the point where it became a several-times-a-page thing. The story is told in her first-person narration, which helps the reader connect with Sherry and her plight, but outside of Sherry, we find a cast of very flat, cardboard characters, from Sherry's family (parents, grandmother, brother Bobby, and little sister Mia) to the designated love interest Joshua to the people we find at the safe haven. There is little development or background about these people, and the dialogue doesn't help us get to know them. By the end, I was still confused about who anyone was - Geoffrey and Tyler, for instance, are still one character in my mind.

Oh, and Sherry dear? You've known the boy for what, a week tops? That's not love. Feel free to make out with him all you like, I don't care, but don't risk your life for him when you know he's an idiot. Signed, Megan.

I don't know with this one. The story zipped along at a great pace, but it was really short. Goodreads claims it is 352 pages long and it's lying. In fact, I am going to change that when I post my review. Right when you get into the story and you are thrown into their world, guess what? The story is over! You have to wait until book two to find out anything else because the ending hits you out of nowhere almost. The pacing is excellent, I will give Winnacker that - she knows how to pull you along, and you can finish this story in two hours or so if you read at an average pace and take ice cream breaks.

My final issue with this book that leaves the story at two stars only? For a story about rabid Weepers, there aren't nearly enough. I wanted more horror, more action, and instead I got make out sessions in the vineyard and grandma knitting. I might check out book two, but I will be waiting for reviews before I make up my mind. THE WEEPERS just didn't do anything for me.

VERDICT THE WEEPERS doesn't bring anything new to the zombie/post-apocalyptic table besides a crash-course in shoddy characters. Skip this one.