Closer to 4.5. My first zombie read and it was quite good. Megan is a Settler, she thought this life was over when a horrible accident with zombies took her powers away. Just when she is being a normal teenager the zombies show up again. THis book has the normal teen angst in, but is delivered in a funny way. I had quite a few LOL moments reading it. Being a debut novel, it took while to get the writing in gear and have the characters and plot and subplots to come together. The ending was suprise that I didn't see it coming. It was a fun read with some mystery thrown in.