Sick by Tom Leveen

Breakfast Club meets The Walking Dead as a group of unlikely allies tries to survive a deadly outbreak.

Brian and his friends are not part of the cool crowd. They’re the misfits and the troublemakers—the ones who jump their high school’s fence to skip class regularly. So when a deadly virus breaks out, they’re the only ones with a chance of surviving.

The virus turns Brian’s classmates and teachers into bloodthirsty attackers who don’t die easily. The whole school goes on lockdown, but Brian and his best friend, Chad, are safe (and stuck) in the theater department—far from Brian’s sister, Kenzie, and his ex-girlfriend with a panic attack problem, Laura. Brian and Chad, along with some of the theater kids Brian had never given the time of day before, decide to find the girls and bring them to the safety of the theater. But it won’t be easy, and it will test everything they thought they knew about themselves and their classmates.

Goodreads Summary

Imagine that group of delinquents from your high school, they skip

class by sneaking out the back door and jump the fence, cuss every

other word, and fill that tough guy guise by sporting a mohawk and

leather jacket. Meet Brian and his friends, who for all intents and

purposes, are not the most motivated of students out there at this

typical Arizona high school. While on their daily ditching debauchery,

they notice a few events begin to unfold that seem

individually disconnected, but soon they piece the shards together to

find horror when they return to school: bone-crunching, face-eating,

blood-spilling zombies. This horror forces them into a life-changing

apocalyptic pandemonium that will glue your face to the book till the

last drop of blood trickles down the drainpipe.

     Where the author Tom Leveen really shines 

is in the book's overly gory, very descriptive presentation of zombie attack.

If you like all the blood-spattering, flesh-ripping details, this

book is right as a severed head in a river of rotting ruby flesh.

Another way that this book really stands out is its clever use of

foul language through the character Chad. He will leave you rolling

your eyes and laughing even through all the death and moments of

suspense. A third great element that makes this book a fun read is the

mental struggle  that the kids face when they see the monsters that

are chasing them. Are they a sick friend that can be healed, or a

 zombie? There are moments where you can feel

the pain of the students as they struggle to decide "cripple or

kill?" Add in getting hosed down by blood, protruding broken bones,

and a medieval sword swinging fiercly at a mob of the undead and you

get, quite literally....... "Sick," thanks to Tom Leveen.

*Reviewed by Chris*

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