There are also some racial slurs of the era ("darkie," "colored," "pickaninny," "coon," etc.) in the story. Like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the book features a good deal of violence, as is appropriate in a story about zombie slayers (lots of deaths either from the undead eating live humans, or from humans shooting, stabbing, decapitating the undead, or from people beating, stabbing, and shooting one another). Author Justina Ireland explores what would've happened had zombies (or shamblers, as they're called in the book) stopped the war in order for Americans to come together to battle the undead (or force black and indigenous folks to fight them). Civil War ends - not with the South's surrender, but when the dead begin to rise up on the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville. Parents need to know that Dread Nation is an alternative-history zombie thriller that takes place after the U.S. Adults drink at dinners, men smoke pipes use of laudanum, smelling salts, other medicines is mentioned.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.
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