Unsicker Road: A Kayla Hicks Book Review

What is Unsicker Road: A Wrack and Ruin Book Series about?

When the red rains ended the world, the undead weren’t the only monsters left behind.

Zoe McCallister and her found family have built a fragile refuge in the well-stocked farmhouse of Benson Meyer, a man as enigmatic as the plague consuming the world outside. But as Zoe and Oliver begin to unravel the truth about Ben, they realize he’s hiding more than they ever imagined.

Meanwhile, in River City, a new threat is gathering. A gang of violent ex-convicts sets its sights on Unsicker Road, seeing the farmhouse as their kingdom and Zoe’s people as nothing more than an obstacle in their path.
As if the living weren’t enough to fear, the infected are changing—evolving into something far worse. And when an old enemy, one they thought dead and gone, returns—not as a mindless monster, but as something far more terrifying—the battle for Unsicker Road becomes a fight against something bullets can’t stop.

With secrets surfacing and danger closing in from all sides, Zoe and the others must uncover the truth about the parasite before the past—and the dead—consume them all.

My Review:

I love this series more than you know. Why? Because I am a huge zombie fan and apparently of apocalyptic stories in general and not only does this series hit those marks, but it throws in deep attachments to the characters, moments that leave me on the edge of my seat, and the want for another book in the series. And like every other book in the series, I finished it in just a few days.

We find Oliver, Zoe, Jurnee, and Louie have managed to escape the church that was overtaken by zombies. Taking a chance, they knock on the door of a secure home belonging to a mean rich man living in town on Unsicker Road. The man offers them only a few nights rest in his home but what Oliver, Zoe and the rest the other four members of the church group who escaped don't know is that something is coming for them and even the bulletproof glass and brick walls of the rich man's home can't save them.

I enjoyed how this book expanded and brought in new characters, even if some were unfavorable. It allowed the storyline to show the rest of the world beyond what the reader sees with Oliver and Zoe. In addition to this, the additional group members that came with them from the church slowly helped Oliver and Zoe to form a new kind of family.

I can't wait for the next book in the series to come out as the way it ended opened the story up to seeing what else is beyond Oliver and Zoe's small cluster of towns and to expand on the new version of the world.

I give this book a 5-star review.

You can get the series here: The Wrack and Ruin Series