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Tooth And Nail: From the iconic #1 bestselling author of A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES

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They also have a whole chapter on a will reading that is incredibly boring because that’s just what is it nothing more. An ingeniously imaginative alternative to stale word list books for building a strong vocabulary for the verbal sections of the SAT. As a former military officer, I can attest to complexity and uncertainty of the difficult decisions faced by second lieutenant Todd Bowman and his men, as they faced an increasingly deadly and nebulous viral threat on the streets of Manhattan. He also chose to cut to different scenes pretty abruptly, deciding to wrap up the previous scene by telling the reader what happened instead of allowing us to "see" it for ourselves. I felt like they could have been fighting any kind of enemy and the book would have read the exact same way, it just so happened they were fighting zombies.

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They are charged with protecting a hospital in New York City and keeping the desperate crowds under control. Underneath Tooth and Nail's whimsical and propulsive plot is a truly effective SAT and ACT vocabulary-building program--complete with numerous reading comprehension exercises and more than 1300 of SAT examiners' favorite test words. I do hope to see a sequel to this book, but it certainly can stand on its own as a excellent entry into the infected/zombie apocalypse genre.

Unlike a lot of zombie books where it seems like no one on the planet knows what a zombie is, in this one they do, but it takes a while to connect the dots.

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Tooth and Nail starts with a disease that sweeps through the city with rapid pace, beginning as a virus with a high mortality rate, and morphing into a 'zombie' disease. Esas son mis opiniones, pero como siempre digo: lean el libro, juzguen ustedes mismos y déjenme en un comentario su opinión.

The effect of this is that the author went to some pretty good lengths to detail out this virus and its effect, giving it a realistic edge where the science felt pretty solid. However the lab which she is working in is locked out and is surrounded by Mad dogs both within and without.

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Each soldier's role in the story is examined and expanded through gritty action, well constructed conversation and personal narrative introspection. The military personal are very realistic and believable, there are no SUPERSOLDIERS who do extraordinary feats. The speaker foresees the time when our unpleasing youth will confront a heart-wrenching situation, where men will fight tooth and nail with all possible means. When Rebus is offered a serial killer profile of the Wolfman by an attractive female psychologist, it's too good an opportunity to miss. It's also pretty light on the whole anatomy of a virus scenario - this is something that has resulted to me skimming in other novels of the same genre (I read these books for a guilty pleasure, not to increase my knowledge of virology!

Morris Gerald Cafferty makes his first appearance, in the background as a gangster Rebus has to give evidence against. Otro detalle que no me gusto fue la trama algo “plana” no sentí que el avance de las paginas me llevara a entender o predecir el final y eso es por que el final queda abierto, dándome la completa sensación de libro inconcluso. In the first 10 chapters it focusing too much on these secondary characters that have no true role or even just benefit the plot. The body count is also high as no character is truly safe as would be the case in a real-life scenario. But I am pretty sure my ESL students won't be at the level where they are engaging with the 2-dimensional nature of the characters, so I'm not too worried about it.

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The make good/bad decisions and all along the way their characters develop to where the reader feels a certain kinship to what they are going through.There are many characters here, which might be a bit confusing at times, although DiLouie manages to confer each a unique voice and feel without wasting precious words and pages on lengthy descriptions.

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