The Boy on the Bridge

[b:The Girl With All the Gifts 17235026 The Girl With All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts #1) M.R. Carey https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1403033579s/17235026.jpg 23753235] was a once-in-a-lifetime sort of book: smart science, interesting existential quandaries. The Boy on the Bridge is the Girl With All the Gifts redux. But unfortunately, literally: the smart but loving female scientist, and the precocious but different kid and they travel with a small crew who are deadset against them, all together exploring a land laid waste by the zombie plague. Unfortunately with all of the clever twists done already in The Girl, there wasn't much new and I felt like The Boy largely dragged. That's not to say there weren't well-drawn characters and emotional beats – there were, but it really hit basically all the same emotional, plot and character notes as The Girl did.