The action is so compelling in this fantastic alt-history zombie thriller that re-imagines post-Civil War America, it's the kind of novel that's difficult to stop reading once you start. After Jane succeeds in installing Katherine among the white citizens, the two young women uncover a host of dangerous secrets - about the town, the undead, and the future. At Summerland, which is led by a racist religious fanatic and his lawman son, Jane manages to convince everyone that blue-eyed, golden-haired Katherine is white, and that she's the lady's Attendant. Jane is nearly done with her training at a prestigious Baltimore combat school to become an Attendant (a bodyguard to wealthy whites), when she and her beautiful light-skinned classmate Katherine are taken away to serve as border patrol at a dangerous frontier outpost, Summerland.
In an effort to help fight the undead, the government enacts the Native and Negro Reeducation Act, which forces black and indigenous children to attend combat school, where they're basically taught to be zombie slayers to protect whites.
Protagonist Jane McKeene was born just two days before zombies - aka shamblers - emerged, and the fact that she's obviously biracial has complicated life for her rich, white mother, the mistress of a powerful Kentucky plantation. Parents and teens who read the book together can discuss a host of sociopolitical and historical issues, from institutional racism and white supremacy to shadism, passing, educational segregation, well-intentioned but ineffective white benevolence, and more.ĭREAD NATION is a historical zombie thriller that takes place in an alternative universe in which the Civil War ended when the dead at Gettysburg began to rise up and consume soldiers from both armies. There are also some racial slurs of the era ("darkie," "colored," "pickaninny," "coon," etc.) in the story. Like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the book features a good deal of violence, as is appropriate in a story about zombie slayers (lots of deaths either from the undead eating live humans, or from humans shooting, stabbing, decapitating the undead, or from people beating, stabbing, and shooting one another). Author Justina Ireland explores what would've happened had zombies (or shamblers, as they're called in the book) stopped the war in order for Americans to come together to battle the undead (or force black and indigenous folks to fight them). Civil War ends - not with the South's surrender, but when the dead begin to rise up on the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville. Parents need to know that Dread Nation is an alternative-history zombie thriller that takes place after the U.S. Adults drink at dinners, men smoke pipes use of laudanum, smelling salts, other medicines is mentioned.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.
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