Decent premise, but really really shitty execution on the writing front. The art is good, but this is a 60-odd page story that should have been at least double that.

Awful. ( )

This book was so EXTRA. In every single way. Bloody, emotional, terrifying.

Longer review to come. ( )

This book got really creepy as time went on. Like wow.

It's always nice to read a book with LGBT protagonists where the romance is not the main thing, the protagonist just happens to be in a relationship with another girl while also being in a different genre.

This is a story of a girl's family as the apocalypse (?) breaks out, and yeah, it gets pretty stressful and disgusting at times. I liked how it was shown that the world gradually changes as the blood gets worse. ( )

What a strange book. Not bad, not the best I have ever read. It kept me turning the pages because it was such a weird premise that I wanted to know what happened next. That all being said there are some serious flaws, but the oddity of it all kept me going. The earth is bleeding? It is growing hair and bones? Whyyyyy, tell me why! So...needless to say I ended up staying up way too late to finish this book.

The main character is absolutely the kind of person that would be the first to die in a real apocalypse. She is so very immature and concerned about all the wrong things during a very grisly worldwide crisis. There were of course moments of realism. For instance, when the main character unthinkingly gave a glass of water to her best friend and her mother rightfully lost her everloving mind over it. And when the main character encountered her gruesomely murdered best friend family and was at a loss on how to cope in any way other than to keep going.

But so many times I wanted to reach out and slap her over her misdirected attentions during a time of crisis. Of course you want to know that the people you love are okay but you don't go to a kegger in the middle of the bloodsoaked woods and even entertain the idea of drinking said blood from a straw when you know its dangerous; nor do you dare someone else to do it?! For the love of god, Darwinism in action. Honest to goodness I understand why her mother probably lost her mind trying to cope with her daughter being a brat and the dad being super secret about setting up a safe base and just leaving the pair of them completely in the dark (literally after they boarded up the house) and tried to kill the pair of them.

Just...fault after fault was to be found in the book. But I also couldn't put it down. I'm low-key mad they never really explained why in the world it all happened) but hey, what can you do?

Read it for a quick and bizarre trip through a bloodsoaked landscape with a whiny teenager while pondering why the hell this is all happening and what would you do. But don't expect to be overly fond of the characters. The writing itself was nice, easy to read. ( )

I don’t know. I didn’t hate it. I read the whole thing. It just...kind of reads like a very long mid-tier creepypasta? I don’t think it’s totally bad but I don’t know that I’d call it good either.

There was a crazy tone shift maybe a little more than halfway through the book, after Lea decides to attend an apocalypse party. Everything up to that point had felt like a YA book with gross blood, and after that felt like an actual horror novel—like, people start dropping like flies. The later sections are better, in my opinion, and I actually think the section right before it ends is pretty decent, the long treacherous slog toward safety, but then it just...ends? No explanation for the blood, no follow up on the world or Lea and Aracely, no anything? I’m all for keeping it succinct but it was a real disappointment to make it through the whole thing and get almost nothing at the end.

It’s not very long, if it was something you wanted to give a shot. There are some things I liked, but mostly it just didn’t really stand out for me.
( )