At its core the book delves into a spectrum of black girls’ and women’s experiences, kinship, and necessary resilience. Then it’s a glorious race to the finish, with compelling moral examinations of human experimentation and killing for hire to fuel reader interest. The pacing is steady throughout the first part of the story, building and exploding into a gut-wrenching plot twist halfway through. Alternating between Jane’s haunted life with its Shakespearean overtones and Katherine’s more devout but no less deadly existence, each chapter takes readers farther west, with hopes resting on happy endings for the duo in California. This sequel to Dread Nation (2018) is told from the perspectives of the irascible Jane McKeene and her unlikely best friend, Katherine Deveraux, after they escape the unholy hell of Summerland, a social science experiment run by a maniacal minister through which black people were forced to protect whites from attacks by throat-chomping, undead shamblers. Two young black women kick zombie ass from the post–Civil War East to the late-1800s American West.
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