The Village + any generic zombie film - shotguns + obnoxious nuns = Forest of Hands and Teeth.

Very quick read that I'm sure teens will latch onto though. Carrie Ryan does excel at making the reader sympathize with the narrator. I was so glued to my dislike of one character I couldn't even change my mind when I was supposed to consider him an okay guy again.

There's apparently two sequels to this I don't see the significance of. Not every YA book needs a sequel. That's certainly not a gripe specific to this book though.

***Spoilers***

I did like how the second village was a glorified Ewok town in the trees. If you're going to be surviving the zombie apocalypse, making for the trees is brilliant.