Classic Courtney Summers with a brand new look and exclusive bonus material! This ebook edition of This is Not a Test includes a discussion guide and the novella sequel, Please Remain Calm. It's the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won't stop pounding on the doors and one bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn't sound so bad. Six months ago, her world collapsed and now seems like the perfect time to give up. As Sloane eagerly waits for the barricades to fall, she's forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually want to live. But as the days crawl by, the motivations for survival change in startling ways and soon the group's fate is determined less and less by what's happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids for life—and death—inside. When everything is gone, what do you hold on to? Also available from Courtney Summers: I'M THE GIRL, the new "brutally captivating" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) queer thriller based loosely on The Epstein case.

本作の本質は、死を望む少女が直面する生のパラドックスにあります。ゾンビの恐怖以上に、彼女の内面に広がる虚無と過去の傷が凄惨であり、極限状態で生存の意義を問う文学的強度は圧巻です。絶望の深淵を覗き込むような、鋭利で残酷なまでに美しい物語といえます。 映像版ではバリケード内の閉塞的な恐怖が強調されますが、原作は独白に宿る内面的な痛みを深く刻みます。映像の動的なスリルと小説の静かな絶望。この対比が、喪失の果てに何を掴むかというテーマを鮮烈に描き出します。両メディアを辿ることで、物語の真の深淵を体感できるでしょう。