6/24/2023 0 Comments Contagious emily goodwin![]() ![]() ![]() Goodwin has shown that female writers can make flesh crawl, both living and undead, just as well as her male peers.”. “In her narrative storytelling, Emily Goodwin presents a refreshingly strong female hero in her zombie-infested, survival tale. When she finds herself a reluctant leader of a group of survivors, she must make a choice: set aside her issues and help the others or go off alone in search of her own family and friends. Orissa is used to only being responsible for herself. A virus breaks out across the country, leaving the infected crazed, aggressive, and very hungry. Down on her luck, Orissa doesn’t think she can go any lower. Unable to find a job, she moves in with her aunt in Indianapolis. It terrified me, right down to my very core, to be alive while the rest of the world was dead.”ĭuring the Second Great Depression, twenty-four-year-old Orissa Penwell is forced to drop out of college when she is no longer able to pay for classes. Living, while everyone around me had their flesh savagely torn from their bodies to be shoved into the festering and ever-hungry mouths of zombies. ![]() My worst fear wasn’t of dying, it was of living. ![]() “I can’t give this post-apocalyptic story six stars but I wish I could!” -Tamara Rose Blodgett Summary First in the zombie pandemic series by the New York Times–bestselling author. ![]()
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