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Allison Hewitt Is Trapped: A Zombie Novel is one of my favorite zombie novels, right up there with WWZ and Ashes. I was so excited to read Sadie Walker is Stranded.

Sadie takes place after the initial breakout, she is surviving in Seattle with her boyfriend and her nephew, Shane.

The writing is still tight, the story bogged down for me though because it was less about zombies and more about surviving with group dynamics," Lord of the flies" with zombies.

I agree with another reviewer, the ship and the island both seemed to claustrophobic for me. I did enjoy the interaction as the tribes tried to mesh.

Sadie as a character never fully developed for me. She talks about becoming a leader because of her mad wilderness skills, taught to her at her daddy's knee, but she never really foraged, killed any animals with her bow, provided food, etc, so while she talked about her skills she never seemed to really utilize any of them.

The zombies honestly were more of a catalyst for the story of Sadie and survivors, rather than having a starring role. There are some scary moments and sad moments (and a few amusing moments).

Overall I give this 3 1/2 stars, a solid B. A good solid read and I would still read any books Roux writes.


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Sadie Walker Is Stranded Madeleine Roux 9780755379163 Books Reviews

Madeleine Roux’s Zombie series is by far one of my favorite series in the zombie genre. There is an amazing mix of sassy, snarky fun and all-too real creepy danger. One minute I’m giggling at something that Sadie said or did, the next minute I’m gripping the book so tight my knuckles are turning white and I’m worried that someone isn’t going to make it. I feel like this book revved up the creepy quotient with the zombies. They seemed to behave differently, maybe smarter in this book and we learned that they can swim and survive under freaking water. WTH?!?! Gives me goose bumps just thinking about it.

Sadie is really fun and feisty. I loved her attitude and some of the stuff she said had me laughing out loud. She isn’t as strong and willful as Allison Hewitt was, but she wanted to be and I loved that she kept wondering What Would Allison Do? I really enjoyed the boat and the island settings for this book. The settings really made everything feel even more on edge. I couldn’t put the book down and I didn’t want it to end. I would love for there to be more in this series.
A few months ago, the Outbreak happened and the dead rose and started eating the living. Nothing has been the same since. Sadie Walker lives in walled off Seattle and works as an illustrator just like she used to before the Outbreak. However, it doesn't support her as much as it used to since art is seen as a nonessential job when resources are scarce. Things aren't good, but the dead aren't banging down their doors until a fringe group called Rabbits who are intent on having as many kids as possible break down the wall. Seattle is overrun and Sadie escapes with a friend on a boat with a bunch of strangers. They lose their captain and a storm washes them onto a deserted island. How will they survive? What will they do next? What if the island isn't so deserted?

Sadie Walker is Stranded is a companion novel, but not really a continuation of Allison Hewitt is Trapped. The events exist in the same universe and the two books share at least one character, but Allison's story is done. Sadie Walker is directly influenced by Allison's blog that recorded her own account of the Outbreak. She saw it as inspiring and necessary for others to see stories of success during this time. Writing and art are seen as unnecessary during this time because they don't directly contribute to survival. Sadie makes her money creating cutesy and optimistic kid's stories to provide them an escape. In her spare time, she creates adult comics about surviving the Outbreak, but it's soundly rejected as being too depressing and too close to everyone's every day life. I like that this idea is explored because art is very important to humans in general. Just because it isn't needed physically for our survival doesn't mean that it isn't needed for our mental and emotional health. I've never seen the subject explored and it's nice to see someone fighting for it.

I enjoyed the first half of the story very much. Sadie lives a relatively normal life with her brother and her boyfriend. Then one day, everything goes to hell when the Rabbits break through the wall surrounding Seattle, letting all the zombies in. Not only that, but her boyfriend suddenly decides to kidnap her brother and attack her, but it goes wrong and he ends up dead. These scenes are very intense and the tenuous life they have all built after the Outbreak is shattered because of one messed up cult. I wish Roux had explored this cult a bit more because I find them morbidly interesting. The Rabbit cult's goal is to have as many children as possible to repopulate the earth and of course it's powered by religion. Anyone can see it's insane since there aren't resources for that many newborns and people are just trying to survive at this point. I can't even fathom the amount of self absorption needed to destroy a whole city because they don't support your crappy religious views.

I didn't like the plot on the island as much. Sadie is pretty self absorbed and borders on Mary Sue territory when all the attractive men somehow go after her. One major plot point at the end just jumped the shark for me a woman was able to manipulate zombies because she had briefly died. What?? I'm pretty sure zombies can still sense you're alive what with making noise, moving around, and doing unzombielike things. It doesn't make sense with the rest of the world building and honestly made me pretty angry since the first half of the novel was so good.

Sadie Walker is Stranded is half very cool zombie book and half not very good. I hope the series continues and goes more in the vein of Allison Hewitt is Trapped than this one. I would read other books by Madeline Roux, but many more like the second half of this and I would not.
nothing like her first book. boring as hell and drawn out...you can tell she was forced to pop this book out fast..don't both reading it. her first book was soooo good...this one was crap.
Roux's second novel is a more interesting and tighter tale than Allison Hewitt is Trapped. The author has focused this post-apocalyptic world and plot. The prose is much more fluid so the novel moves at an improved pace and is less disjointed. It is basically a "Ten Little Indians" on an island with zombies playing supporting characters with good twists to the genre. This and her previous novel play more to the young adult crowd...perhaps ones who would appreciate something a little darker and rougher than The Hunger Games.
Allison Hewitt Is Trapped A Zombie Novel is one of my favorite zombie novels, right up there with WWZ and Ashes. I was so excited to read Sadie Walker is Stranded.

Sadie takes place after the initial breakout, she is surviving in Seattle with her boyfriend and her nephew, Shane.

The writing is still tight, the story bogged down for me though because it was less about zombies and more about surviving with group dynamics," Lord of the flies" with zombies.

I agree with another reviewer, the ship and the island both seemed to claustrophobic for me. I did enjoy the interaction as the tribes tried to mesh.

Sadie as a character never fully developed for me. She talks about becoming a leader because of her mad wilderness skills, taught to her at her daddy's knee, but she never really foraged, killed any animals with her bow, provided food, etc, so while she talked about her skills she never seemed to really utilize any of them.

The zombies honestly were more of a catalyst for the story of Sadie and survivors, rather than having a starring role. There are some scary moments and sad moments (and a few amusing moments).

Overall I give this 3 1/2 stars, a solid B. A good solid read and I would still read any books Roux writes.