Mordacious - Sarah Lyons Fleming

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Title: Mordacious (The City, #1)
Author: Sarah Lyons Fleming
Genre: Dystopian
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: Audiobook ~18 hours
Date read: June, 2018

Sylvie Rossi has the loner thing down pat, with the exception of her best friend, Grace. But when the two are trapped in a hospital during the last gasp of a dying city, alone time is no longer an option. A nurse's offer of sanctuary promises Sylvie the supplies she needs to survive the zombies - it's the coexisting with people that might do her in.

Eric Forrest will do whatever it takes to get into the dead city for his sister, including ending up dead himself. He's used to taking risks, but with every mile he travels death looks likelier and likelier, and finding his sister may be his only prospect for survival - if he can make it home.

Sylvie doesn't need more than food, water and shelter. Eric wants only to find his sister. But sometimes what we think we need isn't what we need at all, and what we find is more than we expected.


A companion series to the "Until the End of the World" series, featuring (among others) Cassie's brother and Penny's mother. I was really curious to see what happened to both of them, so I was happy to see this. However, what mostly appealed to me about the UtEotW series was the world building, and there was hardly any of that here, as the universe had already been established.

I still enjoyed it though, especially as it wasn't quite as heavy on the zombie-bashing (literally) as I'd feared. I'll probably read the rest of the series eventually, but right now I think I need a break from all the zombies.