Review: Barely Alive

Barely Alive by Bonnie R. Paulson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Paul's a high school senior who gets into a fight with his mom and runs away. While on the streets he meets up with Tom, who is seems to know how he feels and encourages him to join him and a group of boys. Everything's cool in the beginning, he gets to do what he wants and go wherever, but that ends with Dominic, who runs the group, shoots him up with a virus. Dominic only cares about himself and creating more zombies. Regretting his actions, Paul realizes he only has 12 weeks before his body is completely deteriorated. He continues to try to hold onto his humanity and hopefully find a cure for the zombiesm, while slowly falling for Heather, a girl that he and the guys kidnapped.

This is a great book and I love this take on zombies keeping there human side while fighting off their need for meat! Paul is a good looking athletic teen with heart and you have to like him. The other characters are very real and the story line just pulls you in.

This is part of a trilogy and this is book 1 of the Barely Alive series. The story continues with Falling Apart and Mostly Dead.

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