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The Undertakers: The Rise of the Corpses (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Undertakers: The Rise of the CorpsesEngaging from the very first page, Ty Drago's thrilling children's debut has heart, it has humor, and it has straight up, gross-out horror.
Full description- Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
- Published: 19 May 2011
- Format: Hardback 480 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Adventure | Horror & Ghost | Science Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781402247859 ISBN 10: 1402247850
- Sales rank: 647,516
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Reviews for The Undertakers: The Rise of the Corpses
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Great read
One day everything was normal for Will Ritter, then he went outside to meet the bus for school and noticed that his neighbor looked like a zombie. He had just received what the others call the sight. He runs off from his neighbor, but soon finds out he can run from the walking dead.
Will is then helped by another girl with the sight and is taken to a place called Haven. It's at Haven were he meets the leader of The Undertakers. They are a group of kids who can see what nobody else can see, that people all over the city are dead, they call them corpses. Zombies are slow and dumb, corpses are aliens who have taken over a dead body.
As far as they know there has been only one adult who could see them and that was Will's father. As will learns more about the secrets his father kept from him, he learns to be a soldier in the Undertakers. A group of kids who are doing their best to stay alive and try and find away to kill the corpses.
Will Ritter is a great main character. He is twelve years old and acts it. When he is dragged away from his mom and little sister he whines about it. He is head strong and tough, but he often thinks about his mom.When he doesn't think the Undertakers are doing anything to get rid of the corpses he tries to do something about it, often not using rationalized thoughts. Because he is a twelve year old kid trying to be a soldier and save people from something that most of them can not see, and in doing so he screws up some. He think irrationally because he is angry and young. He is stubborn, strong and flawed, which to me makes him a great hero.
The other characters in the book are great too, each of them has a purpose and I am sure we will learn more about the secondary characters as the series continues. Tom Jefferson is the Chief of the Undertakers and to Will's frustrations he has only lead them on a defensive strategy. Sharyn Jefferson is Tom's sister and she is in charge of the group called Angels, she is one tough girl. Though she doesn't always agree with her brother she is fiercely loyal to him. Helene, is in the group called Schoolers, they infiltrate the school and look for other kids who can see the corpses. This is how Will and Helene meet, she was going to his school waiting for the day he got the sight. Helene is not really Will's love interest since he is only twelve, but his crush. There are a lot more I could name but these are some of the main ones.
I could really tell that Ty Drago enlisted the help of his child to make it feel more real. The characters definitely had a preteen to teen feel about them. They were doing grown up things but deep down they were still children. They had many flaws and they acted like kids. It is one of the things that made this book so great.
This is the first in the series so I can't wait for the next one to come out and I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes zombie type books. by Stormi Johnson
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