Book Watch: This Is Not a Test
May 24
This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers will be released in the U.S. on June 19, 2012 in paperback and eBook formats.
It is currently available to pre-order online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble in both formats.
Published by St. Martin’s Griffin, the print edition is 336 pages.
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There are two awesome books releasing on June 19th that I can’t wait to get my hands on. But This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers is the one I’m most dying to read. It sounds so absolutely dark, chilling and utterly fascinating. And yes, very, very scary.
I believe I first heard about this book months ago on Twitter. And it may have been a tweet by author Rachel Vincent that put this book on my radar. While I haven’t yet read anything by the author, I do own two of her books and heard that she’s an amazing writer. And while I haven’t read very many zombie stories, this one sounds incredible.
I am excited (scared? morbidly curious?) to see what happens with Sloane Price and the five other students trapped in Cortege High while outside the world falls apart and people are turned into zombies with just a single bite. And I can’t wait to see just what happens with them when their survival instincts kick in and they begin to turn on one another.
I am always intrigued by stories where the mentality shifts from “us against them” to “every man for himself” and I can’t wait to see how all this plays out. Especially where one of the six survivors is someone who initially doesn’t care whether she lives or dies.
And I am absolutely dying to find out the answer to the question posed in the description, “When everything is gone, what do you hold on to?”
Between the description, the cover – with what looks like blood spatter in the top left-hand corner – and that trailer which totally creeped me out, there was absolutely no question in my mind that This Is Not a Test would be the book I’d be spotlighting this week.
To check out an excerpt on the author’s website, CLICK HERE.
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Places to Watch
The author on TWITTER
The author on FACEBOOK
The author’s fanpage on FACEBOOK
The author on GOODREADS
The author’s WEBSITE
The author’s BLOG
The author’s TUMBLR
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About the Book
It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self.
To Sloane Price, that doesn’t sound so bad. Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then, she’s failed to find a reason to keep going. Now seems like the perfect time to give up. As Sloane eagerly waits for the barricades to fall, she’s forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually want to live.
But as the days crawl by, the motivations for survival change in startling ways and soon the group’s fate is determined less and less by what’s happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids for life—and death—inside.
When everything is gone, what do you hold on to?
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Book Trailer
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Other Amazing Books to Watch
Here is another awesome book releasing on June 19th:
Blood Moon (Drake Chronicles #5) by Alyxandra Harvey
I LOVED This Is Not a Test! It’s one of those ‘one sitting’ kind of book, and Courtney’s writing is spot on.
Great trailer too!
Yes, I can’t wait to read this one! I’m going to be getting a finished copy of it soon!
Oh that’s awesome! I could not stop thinking about this book the other day and now all I want to do is read it. Sounds so amazing!
I saw this months and months ago, but promptly forgot about it until now. I haven’t actually read that many zombie books (only The Forest of Hands and Teeth) but this one looks amazing
I only read HOLLOWLAND and half of FoHT (which I loved but had to set aside for a bit.) I am also looking forward to Something Strange and Deadly and want to read Dearly Departed. But this one sounds out of this world amazing! I hope you get a chance to read it.
Agh, I love Courtney’s writing so much. I’d marry it if it were legal.
I own her books and audiobooks and never get tired of them , re-read them at least once a year <333
I definitely want to read this one too! It sounds really good! This was the first time I’ve seen the trailer…that was creepy! *shivers* Makes me want to read it even more! LOL!
I didn’t know it was a zombie book
and I've been told her writing is good 
But I’ve been stalking the author >.< I like her