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Unfed
Written by Kirsty McKay
Narrated by Amy Shindler
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
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About this audiobook
The good news: Bobby survived her Undead school trip. Bad news: her best mate, Smitty, is missing. Bobby knows she's got to find him, even if it means risking it all and going out into the starving-zombie-infested wastelands again. Even if it means taking fellow survivors along for the ride. And even if the zombies are not the only ones who are chasing them this time.
Author
Kirsty McKay
Kirsty is a former actress and has written children’s plays for commercial theatre. In 2008, she won SCBWI’s competition to find new writers. She was born in the UK, but now lives in Boston, USA, with her husband and daughter. She is the author of The Assassin Game and Have You Seen My Sister. Visit kirstymckay.com for more.
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Reviews for Unfed
Rating: 4.173077 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book is the second in a series. If you haven't read the Undead, this can be kind of confusing because not much backstory is given. Funny, a little snarky, fairly conventional zombie story.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Unfed by Kirsty McKay is the sequel to Undead. Bobby awakes in a hospital and is given a load of bull about what has happened to her cohorts and with the zombie plague. More troubling, is that her mother is apparently dead.These books work for their remote, unknown (to the protagonist) locations. Before it was a restaurant and a tower. Now it's a hospital — one like she's never seen. To spice things up, the zombies have gotten smarter; this batch can figure out basic puzzles (including closed doors).The big mystery here isn't what's causing the zombie outbreak — that we know. Now the question is, where's Smitty and what really happened to Bobby's mother. Thus this one is more of a treasure hunt with zombies.As with the first one, the ending is rather open-ended. As of writing this review, I don't see any mention that a third is planned. As it stands now, the series closes on note similar to that of the ending of the original Italian Job, except that instead of gold threatening to dump our heroes off the Alps to their untimely deaths, it's zombies.Were a third one published (maybe Un-Zed... haha), I would certainly read it. Were McKay to publish a completely unrelated book, I'd read that too. She has a way with mixing humor and the macabre.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finally a sequel to one of the most fun books I have ever read. If you like your zombies with a side of sarcasm, you will find it here. This book is laugh out loud, snarky, fun! I was glad to revisit Bobby and Smitty, although a lot more Smitty would have been nice. I can't give 5 stars because I got bored toward the end and found my mind wandering. These are the funniest zombie books I ever read, and the zombie stories themselves are also wonderfully written. It makes a crazy mix of silly fun! I am dying to read McKay's next book and revisit Bobby and Smitty again!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reviewed originally @ Blood,Sweat and BooksUnfed if you haven't guessed by now is the sequel to Undead. Bobby and her friends have survived the school trip from hell and saved Smitty from a fate worse than death. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean the Happily Ever After they were looking for. Things in Scotland have escalated from bad to worse. Zombies roam freely through the streets and the stench of death is everywhere. Worst of all Smitty has gone missing and Bobby must decipher the clues to find him before it's to late.I read Unfed immediately after finishing Undead so I didn't have any sort of break between books. I really liked that the story picks up almost immediately after the events in Undead. However, unlike the first book the sequel kicks into high gear almost immediately. Just when we come to terms with Bobby being "safe" in a hospital having survived the horrific events from the first book the Zombies show up to mess things up. From that point on it's pretty much non stop, pulse pounding action until the end.Now while I did really enjoy Unfed I can't help but draw parallels between this book and that of Resident Evil. Bobby feels like Alice to me, Zanthro is the Umbrella Corporation and Smitty is clearly Carlos. I think above all that's what disappointed me the most and kept me from rating this sequel higher. Let me be clear, the story is really good and I'm glad I read it but it didn't feel particularly fresh. At least in the first book you have the sort of B-Rated 80's movie running through the background. I don't know... I guess what I'm trying to say is Unfed sort of read like Fan Fiction to me. I hate saying that because I don't want those reading this to dismiss the book but I can't help but feel that way after finishing it up.Another disappointment of mine is Alice. She's just such an insufferable B*tch 90% of the time. Either the Author really hates Bobby or she thinks it is acceptable for her character to treat others that way and get away with it. I was really hoping to see some character growth during the sequel or at the very least have others fed up enough to put her in her place but nope. Instead all we get is more inner monologue about how awful she is but everyone to afraid to confront her directly. Honestly, why do they keep saving someone they don't even like? It's just so infuriating to see.Lastly, I want to talk about how unrealistic portions of the book were. I know, I know it's a Zombie book so who am I to judge but personally I'd still like some sort of believability in the characters actions. Apparently that was a bit to much to ask for though since these teenagers living in the UK mind you know how to shoot guns (Bobby growing up in the US at least made sense), drive all manner of vehicles including trains and have crazy survival skills that rival the likes of Bear Grylls and Les Stroud. I can suspend disbelief to a point but this book went beyond suspending into straight up bs territory.Overall, despite some misgivings I really did like Unfed. While I wish parts weren't so predictable or outside the realm of reality the book is still a solid story of survival amongst the undead. Unfed has the perfect mix of action, adventure, heroism and romance that will certainly keep me coming back for more. If you liked Undead then you definitely need to give Unfed a shot! With that being said, I'll be rating Unfed by Kirsty McKay ★★★★.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is a sequel, so anything you read about it will contain spoilers about Undead.
Unfed picks up where the previous novel left off: on the bus that rescued Bobby, her friends, and her mother from the hordes of zombies roaming the Scottish countryside. Only now, the bus is rolling over in a horrific accident. Bobby is thrown, and wakes up to find Smitty trying to lift some heavy debris that has fallen over her body. She drifts in and out of consciousness, finally awaking in what she's told is a military hospital after having spent six months in a coma. Her head has been shaved and she is told that her mother has died (which Bobby immediately learns is not true, as her phone contains clues that only her mother could have given her), and when zombies attack the hospital, killing nearly everyone, Alice, Pete, and Bobby must reluctantly team up again--this time with a new hot guy named Russ (who behaves very suspiciously)--to find Smitty and Bobby's mom before everyone dies.
It really sucks that we get no Smitty for the first two-thirds of the story, but when he finally appears, it is worth the wait. While crossing the country to find Smitty, we learn a lot more about Bobby's life before the events of Undead, including her relationship with her parents (it feels like we're gearing up to have Bobby's mom sacrifice herself or something in book three, because she is really, really terrible), and it explains a lot about how this girl has been able to survive when very few other people could. And on top of being attacked at every turn by zombies, the gang is pursued by heavily armed military guys who work for Xanthro and have a billion guns and a helicopter at their disposal.
These books are enormous fun. I highly recommend.