Yeah, I liked a lot of things about Boneshaker -- even when Briar and Zeke were doing dumb stuff, it mostly seemed to make sense to me, which was cool. And I did really like the fact that the sort of core emotional relationship was familial instead of romantic (I loaned my copy to my mom when I got done reading it, because I suspected she'd have a lot of sympathy for the mother-of-a-difficult-teenager theme).

And oh man yes on having a lot of cool, capable women around.

Really, for me, it felt like the weak point was the zombies -- otherwise the book seemed to be so...scientifically explicable, I guess? And then there were the zombies, who were sort of a mystery and didn't really obey natural law very well. Which I guess is part of the usual zombie "canon," but it was much less compelling to me than the rest of the story.