4 factorial

When I saw that the second book in Carrie Ryan's trilogy was about Mary's daughter as opposed to a continuation of her own story... I was worried I wouldn't enjoy it. I was very wrong to worry... The Dead Tossed Waves was even better than The Forest of Hands and Teeth. Though the main story is about Gabry, you do eventually learn about what happened to Mary and her friends after the first book ended. Mary is still as selfish, in this book, as she was in the first one. Everything she does is for herself or to make herself feel better. Gabry believes she is as selfish as her mother but I don't believe that. She may have made some bad decisions but not all of them were to benefit herself. She really did try to help her friends and correct her mistakes. Once again we see a love triangle among the lead characters, but Carrie Ryan was able to make it a completely different triangle... often authors make the books in their series far too similar and it becomes redundant. Nothing about this story was anything like the first one or anything else I have ever read. It was fresh, new and captured me fully in the first chapter.