Nube de mariposa: zombis

"Mr. Jenkins is spread-eagle on his lawn, in his housecoat. He's twitching. Mrs. Jenkins is kneeling over him. She rips his shirt wide open. Heart attack, I think.

Except that's not what is it at all. Mrs. Jenkins's determined fingers have torn past the material of Mr. Jenkins's shirt. And now they are tearing into his chest."

Título: This Is Not a Test (2012)

Autor: Courtney Summers

Género: terror juvenil, ciencia ficción, Apocalipsis, zombis

Editorial: St. Martin's Griffin

Año de publicación: junio 2012

Edición: rústica sin solapas

Páginas: 326

Web: Courtney Summers

Extras: Booktrailer

Valoración: 6/10

¿De qué trata?

It's the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won't stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self.

To Sloane Price, that doesn't sound so bad. Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then, she's failed to find a reason to keep going. Now seems like the perfect time to give up. As Sloane eagerly waits for the barricades to fall, she's forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually want to live. But as the days crawl by, the motivations for survival change in startling ways and soon the group's fate is determined less and less by what's happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids for life—and death—inside. When everything is gone, what do you hold on to?

This Is Not a Test 1/2: This Is Not a Test // Please Remain Calm

This is Not a Test vino a mí como en un sueño. Buscaba una lectura amena pero con un toque a terror amargo y él apareció de la nada con la única presentación de que tocaba el género y que me lo habían recomendado antaño. Tras devorarlo con atención y descubrir que contenía una ligera trampa en su sinopsis pero no por ello dificultaba su degustación, no puedo decir que haya sido mi panacea apocalíptica, pero sí una lectura interesante y diferente.