Frenzy (Frenzy #1) by Casey L. Bond

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Synopsis:
After the world was ravaged by a viral apocalypse, Blackwater is one of the only colonies that remains. The survivors came together to create this safe haven. Nestled between a fierce river and a city’s flood wall, the well-being of its residents hangs on a long-established treaty with the night-walkers. Sounds simple enough, but lately, the people of Blackwater have been dying, and the humans believe the night-walkers are to blame. 

Porschia Grant starves for more than her parents’ affection. Forced to enter the rotation, she will be given extra food rations in exchange for becoming a vampire’s breakfast and dinner for a week. The rotation has an extra responsibility as well: leave the colony and enter the dangerous forest to hunt for food. A night-walker will protect the hunters from the infected that roam the woods. But with the treaty hanging in the balance and tension between the humans and vampires rising, anything could happen in the darkness.

What would you do if your only chance at survival might kill you?

This book had a lot going on without much of an explanation. There are zombies that apparently came to be through biting and a virus that some people survived and others didn't. Then there are vampires who have formed a treaty with the people from Porschia's village to protect the humans  while they hunt for food in the woods in exchange for blood. The author didn't really give many details pertaining to why the world is the way that it is and how people came to know about vampires and/or interact with them. I suppose the author wanted the reader to know that that is the way that things are. 

I thought that the story was good despite the lack of details that were given and I am interested in reading the next one. The author leaves this book in a cliff hanger which I usually hate but I have a feeling that things will not be as catastrophic as the author would have readers believe. I liked Porschia as a character. She leads an interesting life with a younger brother that feels he must protect her, a bit of an absentee father, and an emotionally abusive mother who criticizes her whenever she gets the chance.  The book begins with her mother telling her that she is a waste of space and that she needs to join the rotation so that the family has more food rations or be forced to live somewhere else. She encounters further issues when she meets the night walkers that will be assisting her and others on the hunt. A few of them take an interest in her which has the potential to be extremely dangerous for her. I will warn anyone that plans on reading this that there is a love triangle or actually it might be a love square. If you are one of those people that can't stand those, I would stay away from this book.