Not Every Girl Can Be Katniss Everdeen.Did she learn to hunt and survive in a post-crisis world?No. Her father was a scientist.Her battle is with a parasitic virus that is threatening to wipe out all life on the planet.The world needs her data before it’s too late. There’s just one problem……she’s three hundred miles away from the people that can do something with it.You’ll love this … something with it.
You’ll love this post-apocalyptic thriller because it will take brains, trust and a whole lot of courage for Alexandra to save the world.
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This was a great read with tons of action. Alex is brave, smart, witty and strangely street smart. She’s gone through a lot since the start of the virus spread, being experimented on by her father, having to get her mother through the country to find her sister, and all the horror in between. Just when she thought she’s lost everything that mattered to her, she makes an unlikely friend in Wyatt. When they find themselves in tight spot and needing help they get a leg up from a brother and sister duo, Cole and Chloe. But sticking together doesn’t help as much as they hoped it would, when Alex and Cole get captured. They bond while in captivity and Alex learns some unsettling truths about Cole, but in the end it brings them closer together. The Zombie Apocalypse is more difficult than just dodging the eaters. Can’t wait to read what happens next, in book two. After all the crud poor Alex has gone through in book one, the hardships, family and new found friends, finding danger in every circumstance she gets into I hope she at least finds an ally maybe even some romance while helping to find the cure.
Oddly enough, I didn’t pick up this series first. I picked up Angel Lawson’s book FanGirl. It was a cute romance about a girl obsessed with a zombie comic book getting to meet the comic book’s author and their falling in love. Angel published the romance in 2012, with lots of little scenes from the zombie comic book interspersed in the story. Then the fans must have cried out. Because in 2016, Angel published The Girl Who Shot First. It IS the zombie comic book story, in novel form. I thoroughly enjoyed FanGirl, and give it a 5/5 stars. It doesn’t matter whether or not you read FanGirl with the Death Fields series. But any “spoilers” in FanGirl all appear in the first book, so don’t worry about knowing too much about later books.
Although I am not typically a zombie fan, I did enjoy The Girl Who Shot First. I enjoyed the plot (which I had roughly known from reading FanGirl) and the descriptions and the characters. I was thoroughly satisfied when I got to the end of the book, but I debated picking up the others. I really, really enjoyed The Girl Who Shot First. But I was ambivalent about continuing the series. This rarely happens with me, but to be fair, it usually happens in a genre I don’t read often, like zombie apocalypse.
While I can heartily recommend The Girl Who Shot First, I cannot tell you about any of the other books in the series. I thought, “Well, I’ll go read something else, and if my curiosity kills me, I’ll come back to this series.” It never killed me, so I never went back. Like I said, I was thoroughly satisfied at the end of The Girl Who Shot First. However, if you really love zombie apocalypse books, you’ll most likely enjoy the entire series because the first one really was very good. 5/5 stars for The Girl Who Shot First.