'Unfed' By Kirsty Mckay

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Unfed is a horror/Comedy novel written by Kirsty McKay, it is set in Scotland in the near future. This is the second book of the series and I have not read the first one and if I had I would have understood this book a bit better. The plot of the book is that there has been an outbreak in a virus and has infected millions and turned them into flesh hungry, undead monsters. The author uses a scary tone which results in a scary mood when reading Unfed. There are five main characters, Bobby who is telling the tale, Alice, Pete, Russ and Smitty. The theme is a zombie apocalypse. The main complication is that Bobby has to find a way to get help so she can then find her best friend smitty then find her mum, find a cure for the virus and then find

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