The second book in the Walking Dead universe doesn't start off where we finished the first book, The Ruse of the Governor, instead focusing on a completely different and new group of survivors who have banded together in a huge tent city. If you're thinking that tents are a terrible way to hold off zombies you'd be correct. The Road to Woodbury The Walking Dead By Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga Read by Fred Berman Thomas Dunne Books / Macmillan Audio October 2012 The story this time focuses on Lily Caul, a young strawberry blonde, freckled girl overcome with grief over losing her father and with certainty that the tent city won't last. (It doesn't; but you knew that.) As she moves on from place to place with her small group of survivors she finds herself at the gates of Woodbury, home of the infamous Governor, Philip Blake. She and her friends find that civilization isn't all that civilized and when some of her companions end up dead she crosses over from victim to aggressor and decided to facilitate a regime change in Woodbury. This, the second book in the planned trilogy, doesn't add as much to the world as the Rise of the Governor did and doesn't flesh out the characters in this story arch as well either. Not as much happens in this book and not as much character development takes place. And some things don't make a lot of sense. Why did Lily decide to attack the Governor when he wasn't directly tied (from her perspective) to her friend's deaths? I can't go into more details on this trail without giving away spoilers. But this isn't the only plot point that seemed to be forced on the reader, instead of naturally developing. Also, after reading both books back to back it is painfully clear that the authors have only a few ways to describe things (or everyone wears the same lumberjack coats, chambray shirts and everyone hides behind cyclone fences, for a few examples.) I'd like to see some more diversity in description. And character! (Lily is almost the same character as Brian Blake was in the first book). An interesting addition that doesn't move the story forward much. I enjoyed it, though, and am looking forward to the conclusion.