Zombies are flesh-eating flavour of the month. If vampires have been co-opted as the perfect, pallid romantic emo boyfriend, the flesh-eating undead are the unlovely lumpen rest of us, hanging out in shopping malls, staring into space until the prospect of convenience food piques their interest.
You’d be forgiven for thinking there wasn’t much that could be added in the way of a new twist to George A Romero’s definitive recipe after their starring role in Pride And Prejudice And Zombies. In MR Carey’s terrific speculative-fiction thriller The Girl With All The Gifts, though, the ancient Greek myth of Pandora, the girl whose curiosity led her to open the box and unleash horrors into the world, and an inter-species love story, combine to create a book that is original, vividly memorable and unexpectedly poignant.
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