Carrie Ryan writes young adult post-apocalyptic fiction about survival, isolation and the stories communities create to make danger feel manageable. The Forest of Hands and Teeth follows Mary in a fenced village surrounded by the Unconsecrated, infected dead who have destroyed the wider world. Her desire to know what lies beyond the village conflicts with religious rules, arranged relationships and the need to survive. Companion novels move to other characters and locations within the same ruined world. Ryan has also written middle-grade adventure and other speculative fiction. Her prose is tense, atmospheric and relationship-aware, fitting YA zombie fiction, post-apocalyptic survival and dystopian community stories. The Forest of Hands and Teeth is the defining entry point for Ryan's post-apocalyptic fiction, with the fenced village and surrounding infected dead establishing the series' central tension. Read more Less
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