I received this book for free from Reviewer Purchase in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.<\/p>Dread Nation<\/strong> by Justina Ireland<\/a>
Series:<\/strong> Dread Nation #1<\/a>
Published by<\/strong> Balzer + Bray<\/a> on 4\/3\/18
Genres:<\/strong> Fantasy & Magic<\/a>, Historical<\/a>, Horror & Ghost Stories<\/a>, Young Adult<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 464
Format:<\/strong> Ebook<\/a>
Source:<\/strong> Reviewer Purchase
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Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania\u2014derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever.<\/p>\n

In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and\u00a0laws like\u00a0the Native and Negro Education Act require\u00a0certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead.<\/p>\n

But there are also opportunities\u2014and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do.\u00a0It's a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane.\u00a0After all, not even\u00a0being the daughter of a wealthy white Southern woman\u00a0could save her from society\u2019s expectations.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not a life Jane wants.\u00a0Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston's School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn\u2019t pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose.<\/p>\n

But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies.<\/p>\n

And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t