Justina Ireland's Dread Nation
Ireland's latest novel is a doozy—it’s set in the 1880s, in a world where the Civil War came to a screeching halt when the dead of Gettysburg began to rise, slavery was made illegal but black and native children were conscripted into “schools” to be educated to fight zombies—and protect white civilization. Our protagonist is a black teenage girl with a healthy amount of smarts and sass, not to mention a good hand with a pair of sickles, at one of said schools. The plot is definitely captivating and I liked the characters—especially the friendships between various women—a lot. It looks like this is the start of a series and I am HERE FOR IT. Badass teenage girls fighting zombies and lamenting about corsets is my jam. A/A-.
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released in April. Content warning for a lot of vicious racist and sexist characters (but the story of course acknowledges they are awful.)
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