The Girl With All the Gifts by M. R. Carey

Category: 50 Books

girlwithallthegilfts

Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class.

When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don’t like her. She jokes that she won’t bite. But they don’t laugh.

Melanie is a very special girl.

Okay, how could I read that blurb and NOT pick up this book? I couldn’t. I HAD to know.

I do not read a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction (and when I do read it, I make sure it’s a good one, Stephen Irwin’s The Broken Ones comes to mind.) I do not enjoy the feeling of hopelessness that these types of books tend to leave with me. That being said, this book grabbed me right away and I could not put it down.

Melanie is a special girl, but also she’s more than that. And I feel it is impossible to talk about this book without giving all the good stuff away!

I’ll just say this, the plot was good, the characterizations were great, and the relationship between Melanie and her teacher, Miss Justineau, was so sweet. The book length was perfect, there were no wasteful pages, the whole story was off like a shot, and when it ended I was relieved. I don’t think I could’ve handled any more intense situations.

I was expecting this book to be good, but it turned out to be great.

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