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Personal Narrative: The Girl With All The Gifts

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So, I want to begin by saying, I didn't finish this book. I had so many problems with the writing and characters that I did not enjoy reading it for the most part. The first thing that struck me about this book is that it was not at all about what I had expected. 'The Girl with all the Gifts' is such a misleading title as it has little to do with the story and the blurb does not give much away. So when I actually got into the story it was a real shock for me to find out it was about *Spoiler Alert* Zombies! I've not had much luck with Zombie based novels in the past, for example: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan; This disappoints me because I love zombies in television, movies and games and would love to add books to that list, but sadly so far I can't do that. …show more content…

This is not helped at all by the large amount of comparisons with other literary texts because most of them I had not read myself, and the little explanation given was not much help either. This novel is wrote in a third person narrative which distances the reader from the characters and led to me not really caring about what happened to them and really impacted my enjoyment of the book. My lack of empathy may have also derived from the absence of a solid form of character development. The characters are described to the reader in facts rather then emotions, making it hard to connect with each of them useless you had something in common; which I did not as none of the perspectives in the novel were from anyone remotely like me. The one advantage to this direction in writing is that the reader receives more information about the world of the novel that some perspectives could not tell us; along with creating dramatic irony as the reader knows more than some of the

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