Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after.Mexico hasn’t been the safe haven Reagan had hoped it would be. With new enemies waiting around every corner and a baby on the way, the group must fight harder than ever to stay alive and stay together. When circumstances beyond their control finally rip them apart, help comes from an unexpected place.The Zombie Apocalypse isn’t all bad news. If only they could out run the demons of their past and find a safe place to stay, a place that’s as far from the Colony and their new enemies as possible. Except the past is quickly catching up with them. When Reagan and friends are distracted by territory wars and Zombie hordes, the Colony invades Mexico, ready to hunt them to the ends of the earth.Can they continue to outrun Matthias Allen? Or will they be forced to face him and risk everything for freedom?
Rachel Higginson is the best-selling author of The Five Stages of Falling in Love, Every Wrong Reason, Bet on Us and The Star-Crossed Series.
She was born and raised in Nebraska, and spent her college years traveling the world. She fell in love with Eastern Europe, Paris, Indian Food and the beautiful beaches of Sri Lanka, but came back home to marry her high school sweetheart. Now she spends her days writing stories and raising five amazing kids.
Volume seven of the Love & Decay series and there are things I really liked about this volume and things that I totally hated.
I liked like character development in Miller but hated the chapter from Page's point of view, I felt like she wasn't the same kid that I'd been hanging out with for seven volumes.
I'm really hoping this Mathias issue comes to an end soon as it's starting to turn into a real bore and for goodness sake will Reagan just get laid as I don't think I can read one more sentence of 'this zombie can't kill me as I don't want to die a virgin!'.
But all that aside it's perfect trash for reading poolside.
At the time of posting this series is available on Kindle Unlimited.
This is an interesting series. It has humour so things don't get too heavy but at the same time they do loose people and there is violence and killing.
The series is a long one and these main characters stories continue for 3 seasons. There is also a spin off series that deals with the sister later.
There is little intimacy. There is touching, hugging and a few kisses but no sex until much later in the last season. The main 2 characters have love interests but due to the nature of the start of the virus and the constant threat there are no intimate scenes until the end of season 3.
Each season ends on a HFN with an enemy thread running through the whole series. Each episode either ends as HFN with a goal set for the next or at times an immediate threat will run across several episodes. At the time I read these the whole series was on Amazon KU so it was possible to read one after the other or complete in a box set. If you start reading and want to get to a HEA you will need to read the entire 3 seasons. There is the immediate zombie threat which is constant but also the series deals with humanities reaction to survival. Often a bigger threat is the desire for power between the surviving groups and these at times use lack of resources and scientific experimentation to control the main threats. Later in the series there is a love triangle situation of sorts for the heroine. It's not exactly a love triangle but there is a dividing force between the main couple due to the interest from another man. There are no intimate details but there is a kissing scene with the other man, but at the time the main couple are not together. The characters are all very different, they have their flaws but they are college age so when they make mistakes and sometimes they are stupid ones I put it down to youth and although they have learnt survival through experience the threat is constant so it's not easy for them to be sensible all the time. There is a good bit of banter between the group and a great deal of humour. There are some serious issues dealt with too and the main human enemy threat is pretty evil.
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I have to say that this volume was definitely not one of my favourites from the series. I just found the constant wave of problems that the group faced to be really unrealistic. Also, I was really annoyed how their collaboration with Diego didn't end up working out. I mean, how is that even possible?! The author portrays the Mexican warlords as all mighty and powerful, so how is it that they couldn't even handle Matthias when he strolled in to THEIR territory? And don't even get me started on Reagan's dumb move when she pulled out the gun while they were trapped inside the jail cells... I really hope that the next volume brings about more realistic events for us to enjoy.
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Episode 5: ah yes, more drama. Can these guys ever catch a break? And...what's with he kiss? Episode 6: Paige's turn, for someone so young, she had to grow up quickly. But what's with Miller? Possessive, much? And does he even realize it? Episode 7: so, really what is up with Reagan and Hendrix. Is it love? Will we find out, with the zombie army coming their way? Episode 8: Can they not get a break? First a wayward zombie army and now the Colony...again. Geez, can they just get a break...for once?
Reagan's progress was more believable in this volume. The Parker brothers development was lacking, would like to hear more about the younger ones. Switching to Tyler's perspective was painful, no clear definition between her and Reagan's style and yet they are portrayed as very different characters. Definitely annoying me more with each book.