Courtney Summers
Paperback | Pages: 326 pages Rating: 3.86 | 13251 Users | 2355 Reviews
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| Title | : | This is Not a Test (This is Not a Test #1) |
| Author | : | Courtney Summers |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 326 pages |
| Published | : | June 19th 2012 by St. Martin's Griffin |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Horror. Zombies. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Fantasy. Paranormal. Apocalyptic. Post Apocalyptic |
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It's the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won't stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn't sound so bad. Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then, she's failed to find a reason to keep going. Now seems like the perfect time to give up. As Sloane eagerly waits for the barricades to fall, she's forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually want to live. But as the days crawl by, the motivations for survival change in startling ways and soon the group's fate is determined less and less by what's happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids for life—and death—inside. When everything is gone, what do you hold on to?Mention Books As This is Not a Test (This is Not a Test #1)
| Original Title: | This Is Not a Test |
| ISBN: | 0312656742 (ISBN13: 9780312656744) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://us.macmillan.com/thisisnotatest/CourtneySummers |
| Series: | This is Not a Test #1 |
| Literary Awards: | The Inky Awards Nominee for Silver Inky (2013), White Pine Award Nominee (2014), The Inky Awards Shortlist for Silver Inky (2013) |
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Ratings: 3.86 From 13251 Users | 2355 ReviewsAssessment Epithetical Books This is Not a Test (This is Not a Test #1)
I get the hype.This Is Not a Test reminded me of Lord of the Flies meets The Walking Dead -- the first season when you're actually cheering for the humans and not the zombies -- with a dash of The Breakfast Club. Not only was this my first Courtney Summers book, this was also my first zombie book. Verdict? I'd like more of both please.Sloane, a physically and emotionally abused girl, finds herself barricaded inside her high school along with five other students. While they know each other, they"I am so sad it makes me heavier than the sum of my parts."This book was so wonderful, it surprised me a lot. I picked up this book because I love good books involving zombies and this one has been getting decent review. I've actually wanted to read this book for about a year and a half now but I never got around to it. This morning I just decided to pick it up and 3 hours later I was finished with it. It was so good and intense and interesting and this is so much more than just a zombie
*2.5/5 stars* Maybe the only way our story can end is varying degrees of sad. My reaction after finishing: What the hell did I just read??So, this book and I didn't really work well together. Though I liked the idea of the story, it didn't work for me in reality. I've heard nothing but amazing things about it and was very hyped up about this as a result, but.. I think it says something when it took my more then a month to finish this, almost DNFing it two times at that. The story had a lot of
I honestly don't know what to review.Thank to May, I'm officially Courtney Summers trash.This book is not about zombies, why they mutated, finding a cure, or having some badass fighting scenes with them. It just has zombies in them. This book is about survival, difficult decisions, loss and heartbreak.This is the second book I've read by Courtney Summers and I wasn't dissapointed. Her first book I read was a realisitic contemporary about rape and bullying and this book is totally different from
Talk about book that leaves you feel it long after you put it down....There was something extremely hypnotizing about this book, or perhaps it's the writing, inspite of my not wanting to read an emotional book at the moment, after just a prologue, I kept wanting to pick it up and find out what happens and to read her writing more. I... I don't know what it was, I cannot explain it. ^even Klaus approved~It has this calming effect on me while still made me very jumpy and extremely sad. It did
2015 reads : Do not give me zombies, 'kay?▨ This is not a book about zombies, this is a book with zombies.And I'm so okay with that. I mean, to be frank, I'm not into zombies. Like, at all. Usually, they never manage to : a) Scare meb) Interest meDead people who come back to life? Come on! That's just gross to me. Therefore I end bored more often than not, except if I take it as a parody, changing myself into this annoying buddy who can't help but laugh at awkward moments (sorry guys for all the
4.5I owe a huge thanks to Courtney Summers for giving me a second chance to read and review this after my netgalley rejection. It made my day and I'm so glad This Is Not a Test was all that I'd hoped it would be.I'm going to say what I said at the start of my reviews or before I started reading: Feed, The Forest of Hands and Teeth, The Other Life and even the one I was sure would be the exception to the rule - The Reapers Are the Angels, and that is that zombie novels have never been my thing.
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