The Enemy by Charlie Higson
Charlie Higson , Horror , Puffin / October 15, 2010

“They’ll chase you, they’ll rip you open, they’ll feed on you…” I have a confession to make. I’m thirty six years old and when I first decided to do a zombie themed month on The Eloquent Page I didn’t even consider including any young adult fiction. In the last couple of years I have read exactly two books that could be described as YA fiction. Both were pretty good, and I’ll be reviewing one of them next month but I never thought something like zombie fiction could really exist for a younger readers.  Let’s be honest, flesh eating killers tend not to be the most upbeat bunch. In my experience, a lot of zombie fiction isn’t really what you would consider ideal for a younger audience. I guess, in hindsight though, that is the challenge – creating a zombie novel that does work for teens. Initially, I was somewhat sceptical of The Enemy by Charlie Higson. A couple of years ago I tried to read Silverfin, his first Young James Bond novel and failed rather epically. It’s not that the book was bad, I just tried to read it at a time when I could not give it the attention…