All around the fence are the Unconsecrated (code name for zombies), so you can’t go too near the fence of you’ll get bitten, become infected, and then you’ll have two choices: be killed or let yourself die and then return as a zombie (obviously, you get chucked outside the fence). Mary has grown up in a small village surrounded by a fence. the forest of hands and teeth by carrie ryan Liking The Hunger Games is not an automatic guarantee that you’ll like The Forest of Hands and Teeth. I had heard a lot of comparisons to The Hunger Games, with good reason – a strong female character, death galore, a post-apocalyptic world – but while I’ve assured dozens of people that, despite being about kids killing each other on television, it’s not that dark or depressing, The Forest of Hands and Teeth is quite depressing. I still don’t really know what to make of the book. Only one of the Unconsecrated could put this book down.7 of 10: Gorgeously written, but fairly depressing. I thoroughly enjoyed it.'-Melissa Marr, bestselling author of Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange This is a beautifully crafted, page-turning, powerful novel. 'Opening The Forest of Hands and Teeth is like cracking Pandora's box: a blur of darkness and a precious bit of hope pour out. Mary's world is one that readers will not soon forget.'-Cassandra Clare, bestselling author of City of Bones Could there be life outside a world surrounded in so much death? 'A bleak but gripping story.Poignant and powerful.'- Publishers Weekly, Starred 'A postapocalyptic romance of the first order, elegantly written from title to last line.'-Scott Westerfeld, author of the Uglies series and Leviathan 'Intelligent, dark, and bewitching, The Forest of Hands and Teeth transitions effortlessly between horror and beauty. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Now, she must choose between her village and her future, between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And, when the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness.

She's learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth.īut, slowly, Mary's truths are failing her.

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