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Picking up many years later, The Dead-Tossed Waves is all about Mary's daughter, Gabry. She's never known anything beyond the relative safety of her seaside town, and is terrified of what lies within the forest thanks to her mother's stories. She's also never crossed the barriers into the old amusement park like the other teens. Until she does, and the dead (the locals call them Mudo) attack. Gabry runs, her friends that weren't bitten are severely punished, and she's left feeling like a coward. If only she could be as brave as her mother. Then things happen, forcing Gabry to flee and she's learning more about herself than she ever knew before.

The Dead-Tossed Waves wasn't as creepy as the first book. Gabry isn't on a slow decent into madness. She's having a personal crisis. It's very much a "who am I, what am I doing, who will I be" type of story. Gabry has always wanted to be like her mother, but she learns things that shake her small world to the core. Then she meets Elias who knows all kinds of things about the Mudo that she's never heard before, and it's all just a mess that she doesn't know how to straighten out. I wasn't as invested in her story as Mary's, but I still found her journey into the forest (of course she has to do the reverse path of her mother) very fascinating.

I do think The Dead-Tossed Waves is a worthy sequel. It fills in some of the gaps from the end of the first book in terms of what happened to Mary and her group, but it is a whole new story. The second half was much stronger for me, since that's where all of the action and danger is. It also answers some of my questions about why Mary's village was isolated the way it was. The only thing I can say I really disliked was the romance. I wasn't sold on either love interest at all. I was actually hoping that Gabry wound up being Elias' lost sister! That would have been much better!


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The DeadTossed Waves Forest of Hands and Teeth Book 2 Carrie Ryan Books Reviews

This is the second book in The Forest of Hands and Teeth series. Gabry, a teenaged girl, lives in a lighthouse with her mother, Mary. On a dare from her friend Cira, she goes outside the fence with a group of teenagers, including Cira’s brother, Catcher to an abandoned amusement park. What was a lark becomes a tragedy as they are beset upon by the Mudo, infected with the zombie virus. While Gabry escapes, Cira and many of the others are either killed or captured upon their return and sentenced to work as soldiers/guards in the city, which is a death sentence for most. Cira begs Gabry to find her brother, who she finds has been bitten. Along her perilous trip she meets the mysterious Elias who keeps her safe and provides some key insight into Catcher’s condition. Her mother’s revelation and disappearance, along with some trying circumstances lead to an escape into the Forest and to secrets of Gabry’s past. While uneven, at times, I appreciated the building of the world mythos and would have liked to have learned more. I am hoping that the third book will provide some resolution to the story.
Just finished this book a second ago, and was happy with it as a whole.

Ryan's writing style is unique. Some people will take issue with that; they will not be able to get accustomed to the lack of adjectives and the "inner voice" monologue going on throughout. But I think a certain beauty is in that which is different.

It's true there is a voracious amount of inner dialogue in this book. The protagonist talks about how she's frightened very often, and about how she doesn't see a point in pushing on through the zombie apocalypse. But that's the only "con" I can see here. The rest of the novel makes you think, makes you fall in love with the new characters, ties up some loose ends from the last novel, adds to the overall worldbuilding and look & feel of what surrounds their villages.

I REALLY liked the character development. I also felt like I was there with the characters, living it with them. I know that sounds odd, but Ryan really does write in such a way that it feels like you're right there, living it with them. Putting yourself in their shoes, urging them to take the next step. And then they do, and it's magnificent.
Picking up many years later, The Dead-Tossed Waves is all about Mary's daughter, Gabry. She's never known anything beyond the relative safety of her seaside town, and is terrified of what lies within the forest thanks to her mother's stories. She's also never crossed the barriers into the old amusement park like the other teens. Until she does, and the dead (the locals call them Mudo) attack. Gabry runs, her friends that weren't bitten are severely punished, and she's left feeling like a coward. If only she could be as brave as her mother. Then things happen, forcing Gabry to flee and she's learning more about herself than she ever knew before.

The Dead-Tossed Waves wasn't as creepy as the first book. Gabry isn't on a slow decent into madness. She's having a personal crisis. It's very much a "who am I, what am I doing, who will I be" type of story. Gabry has always wanted to be like her mother, but she learns things that shake her small world to the core. Then she meets Elias who knows all kinds of things about the Mudo that she's never heard before, and it's all just a mess that she doesn't know how to straighten out. I wasn't as invested in her story as Mary's, but I still found her journey into the forest (of course she has to do the reverse path of her mother) very fascinating.

I do think The Dead-Tossed Waves is a worthy sequel. It fills in some of the gaps from the end of the first book in terms of what happened to Mary and her group, but it is a whole new story. The second half was much stronger for me, since that's where all of the action and danger is. It also answers some of my questions about why Mary's village was isolated the way it was. The only thing I can say I really disliked was the romance. I wasn't sold on either love interest at all. I was actually hoping that Gabry wound up being Elias' lost sister! That would have been much better!