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Kirsty McKay

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Obres de Kirsty McKay

Undead (2011) 234 exemplars
The Assassin Game (2016) 223 exemplars
Unfed (2012) 70 exemplars
Killer Game (2015) 17 exemplars
Have You Seen My Sister (2023) 15 exemplars
Ogres do disco (2016) 3 exemplars
Ogres don't dance (2014) 3 exemplars
Zombies Panic (2012) 1 exemplars
play2live (2016) 1 exemplars

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How can kids survive the zombie apocalypse and how to evade the zombie’s bite?

The central conflict problem is when the classmate drinks something that turns them into flesh-eating zombies in Scotland. It relates to the characters because they have to survive a zombie apocalypse. The story's action is when they have to fight and survive from zombies and the plot is when they have to kill zombies even if they are their own friends or family members. It relates to the characters because they have to survive a zombie apocalypse.

The main characters are Bobby, Smitty, and Alice in the story but, Bobby and Smitty are trying to survive from becoming their classmates' next meal. The zombies are the antagonists and Bobby and Smitty are the protagonists. The protagonists are Smitty and Bobby because they are the main characters and they are in a real situation. The antagonists are the zombies because they are trying to eat Smitty and Bobby, the two main characters in the story.

The one-word topic is the UNDEAD and the author’s perspective on the topic is all about two kids trying to survive their classmate who became zombies and the characters have to find ways to survive. I know the central theme because they are teens trying to survive a zombie apocalypse and find other people alive.

The setting of the story was taken in Scotland at the ski park. The author chose this particular setting because the students went on a field trip to Scotland and the classmates drank some juice that turned them into flesh-eating zombies.

I recommend this novel, “UNDEAD”, because whoever is into horror books like zombies or serial killers, but the bad part. The book had only two characters alive during the zombie apocalypse, so the good part. The book is about how they have to loot around to find weapons and food to survive.
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26magchr | Hi ha 24 ressenyes més | Dec 8, 2023 |
CW:faked suicide, medical event as a result of poisoning, anxiety

3.5 Stars

Well I totally understand why this book has really mixed reviews!

I think seasoned Readers of this genre will have little patience for the quite predictable plot and the fact that the main character is as smart as a box of rocks, but in my opinion it was still a fun and sometimes tense YA mystery thriller. It's a pretty exciting concept filled with hijinks and shenanigans as students try to work out who the 'killer' is. There are enough red herrings to keep the target audience guessing and some spectacularly executed 'murders'. I think this will actually be really fun to booktalk and expect the demand to be quite high so will order two copies for the library.… (més)
 
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Mrs_Tapsell_Bookzone | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Feb 14, 2023 |
I received this book for free from NetGalley. I am not obligated to review the book positively, but I am obliged to state how I received the book.

I will admit the cover for The Assassin Game by Kirsty McKay got me. Without knowing anything about the book, the cover was such a striking image that I instantly requested it.

As I read through the book, the story grabbed me. On a private island in a private school, 13 students are selected to play a game- Killer aka Assassin (yes, that game). Students are "killed" one by one through the use of a prank of some sort- the bigger the prank the better. There are rules to how one is killed, but the main point is not to hurt anyone, don't get caught, and don't get the teachers angry.

Cate is one of the students picked in the middle of the night. After the initiation, her old friend, Vaughn, from when she was 8 shows up out of nowhere with new ideas for the game- a social network (the school only has an intranet). He is strange, keeps appearing out of no where, and falls for Cate.

As the game progresses, things start getting serious and people really start getting hurt. Is this still or game or has it become something else?

I did not know this was a YA book AND it was already published under a different name- Killer Game with a different cover. Those two things should have warned me about this book. As stated in other reviews about YA books is character development and the high amount of drama from insignificant things. This book is no different- Cate is developed well as is Vaughn her childhood, but everyone else is so lightly developed that when something happens, I had to keep asking myself- "who is that?" It becomes difficult to care about someone in a book if they are not developed.

The other difficulty is nothing major happens until page 200! It isn't a spoiler, since it is the premise of the book, but our first student majorly harmed is 200 pages in of a 300 page book. I would think that if there was a sense of peril, peril should have happened pretty early in the book. There was a lot more explaining the game rather than playing the game.

It isn't a terrible book at all. There were lots of fun parts to the book and the story moves pretty quickly. I read it in a single day due to the quick pacing of the book. I will say that I guessed the antagonist very, very quickly. I used two verys because I kind of knew at about page 50 or so.

I will say that I also recognized that I wasn't the target audience for the book, as I am an adult and not a pre-teen. That is audience for this book, unlike a Hunger Games or a Maze Runner, two series which can be enjoyed as much as an adult as a teen. This one is Hunger Games for pre-teens and I do mean pre-teens. I think an older teen would enjoy Hunger Games much more than this one.

I rated this one 3 stars for pre-teens or on a YA scale. It would be much lower if it was on an adult rating, as I don't think adults will not get much out of this one.
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Nerdyrev1 | Hi ha 10 ressenyes més | Nov 23, 2022 |
Boarding school on a island with little contact with the rest of the world? Sign me up!

This was such a atmospheric story, which I didn't expect for a YA thriller. I felt like I was in a cold boarding school on a small island in Wales!

I was so sure who the killer was, but then it flipped it on its head! All these teens have seemingly gone crazy and it's so interesting to dissect, but good luck figuring it out before the end!
 
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Susz13 | Hi ha 10 ressenyes més | Jul 18, 2022 |

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