Parrot
Of course, when food is offered to us, we're not obliged to eat it. When it's on the menu, we don't have to order it. But this takes more than willpower. As an individual, you can practise eating the food you want in a controlled way. As a society, we can identify the forces that drive overeating and find ways to diminish their power. That's what happened with the tobacco industry: attitudes to smoking shifted. Similar changes could be brought about in our attitudes to food – by making it mandatory for restaurants to list calorie counts on their menus; by clear labelling on food products; by monitoring food marketing. But until then few of us are immune to the ubiquitous presence of food, the incessant marketing and the cultural assumption that it's acceptable to eat anywhere, at any time.
David A Kessler
Shannon is an adult and isn't quite happy about her life; with a dodgy job in a software company, a boyfriend who is borderline abusive and a therapist who gets annoyed with her point of view.
It is true that at one point in everybody's life they wish that their parents were dead; in The Enemy, however, you better hope they are or they are coming after you. A strange disease has affected everybody over the age of eighteen, leaving the kids to cope with survival; finding food and shelter and oh, yeah coping with the unlucky adults who have now turned into flesh eating zombies. This book is the very definition of the term "unputdownable" I started the book about five o'clock last night and finished about eleven the same night. It is like a rabid dog, grabbing you by the neck and shaking you repeatedly till it drops you, leaving you an odd mix of bewildered and exhilarated. Yes, this book follows the classic post-apocalypse formula but a) this is for kids and they won't know the formula and b) with writing this good and fast-paced who cares if as a seasoned reader you can kinda guess what happens next.
I am jealous that I am not under fourteen - partly because I would be a mindless zombie if I was a character in this story but mainly because this would be a GREAT book to read as a teenager!
The grown-ups took one look at each other, then turned and bolted, leaving their dinner behind.
Maxie laughed, Achilleus joined her. Blue put his arm around her waist. The other kids joined in and soon their laughter was bouncing round the square and echoing off the empty houses, filling the night, chasing away the demons.
Everything was going to be alright"
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