Zombies of Leningrado 2

Author: Javier Cosnova
Series: Zombies of Leningrado #2
Genre: Historical Fiction
Original publication date: July 2017
Book description: A novella story about zombie and cannibalism where we get the courageous struggle of a city that decided to get to eating human flesh instead of bow down under Hitler and the Nazi siege. 

 Thoughts:
Again we follow a few different characters who have been living in Leningrado for the duration of the siege.
The main perspectives are of a group of the second grade of an orphanage. 
It starts in a few different timelines perspectives. It is set up in five parts. The first part is about a few different people how they live their life after the worst part of the hunger.
People lose their families, lose their homes, have immense hunger, they are trying to find anything left in the city to turn it into food. 
The city is being evacuated, the very sick, the people who have family outside.
This is very heart-wrenching and yet it feels unreal and too real at the same time. There is no real supernatural element, the zombies are the name kids give the monster, the only cannibal left in their city.
Hunger made people become cannibals in order to try to survive, not everyone but that certainly made some people go out of their normal mental state. 
There is a person in the city who is going around killing and eating people using the Ten little niggers (and then there were none) by Agatha Christie as inspiration. Only a group of children know this is happening and they try to get help from the adults but no one believes them. 
I really enjoyed it. But yet my heart was feeling it, it described very bad situations of suffering for the people. It was awful, and great at the same time.
It included pictures of different situations and people from Lenigrado in this period. 

This book was picked because it the ending of the duology Zombies of Lenigrado started last year and also because as part of the read more Latin, Spanish authors, so this is a book by a Spanish author and it was obviously in Spanish so it helps practice Spanish as well. 

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