My mind keeps doing an accidental mashup of this title and the title of the first book. I don't think Ms. Littlefield and her editor anticipated the possibility that people would start thinking of her novels by the title Afterbirth, but there you have it.I'm still annoyed by the lack of consistency in her portrayal of the zombies (and, honestly, annoyed that she calls them Beaters instead of zombies--everyone knows if zombies showed up, we'd just call them zombies), but this was certainly a page-turner, and I loved the times when the POV rotated to a couple of the other characters (who, quite frankly, are more interesting than Cass). I'm interested to see where she takes the third book.