I’m generally not a fan of zombie lit, nor do I generally prefer my monsters to be anything other than horrifying, but when I read the first book of this series for Halloween Bingo last year, I fell in love. The titular zombie, Angel, is the perfect heroine: sassy and feisty and fiercely independent, but also vulnerable and even tenderly caring at times. In this third book of the series, she is still learning to navigate her new place in the world as both newbie zombie in a hidden zombie society and as a newly semi-respectable, drug-free, contributing member of society with “the Normals”. She’s trying to figure out how to have a healthy, functioning romantic relationship. In one really sweet and sad moment, she is delighted and amazed that she actually has real friends who would show up at her party. But there is plenty of action with a budding war between the zombie mobsters and a defense contractor trying to develop the means to control and weaponize zombies.

Audiobook, via Audible. Alison McLemore’s narration is still absolutely perfect.

I read this book for the Booklikes Halloween Bingo 2019, for the square Dead Lands: Elements of the undead - zombies, wights, vampires and other revenants. This story is chock-full of zombies, of course!

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Thoroughly enjoying this 3rd book in the White Trash Zombie series. Angel is one of my favorite fictional characters. 

I desperately needed something light and funny, and this was perfect. This second book in the series was almost as much fun as the first, as Angel settles in to her new life and begins to understand something about zombie pathophysiology and even zombie society, such as it is. Of course there is mystery and danger and action, because that's the kind of book it is, but we also get to see a touching side of Angel's relationship with her father, and witness Angel struggle to redefine herself as a person of worth and sense, deserving to be treated (by herself and others) with common dignity.

Audiobook, via Audible. Allison McLemore's performance elevates a very good book into a five star read for me. 

Review of the first book, "My Life as a White Trash Zombie".

So refreshing. I needed a laugh after the gray fug left by The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

On the ereaders and ready to go for April!

And I'm kidding myself even planning a TBR because no telling what I'll wind up reading or how many.