BACK COVER BLURB: The Good News: Jake's dream girl, Amanda Blake, finally knows his name. The Bad News: It's because they both contracted a mysterious zombie virus, ate half the senior class, and are on the run from a teen psychic who the government sent to track them down.

As Jake and Amanda deal with the existential guilt of eating their best friends, Cass struggles with a growing psychic dilemma of her own--one that will lead the three of them on an epic journey across the country and make them question what it means to be truly alive. Or undead.

OVERALL IMPRESSION: This was a really entertaining book. It was extremely humorous and fun, but also gory at times. I see this as a "fluff" read between more intense books. I'm not saying this wasn't a good book, because I did enjoy it a lot, it just wasn't a book with a deep meaning. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants a fun read to have a good time with.

CHARACTERS: I liked most of the characters in this book. Jake and Amanda were fun to watch interact with each other. Alastaire is a great villain.

COVER: For some reason the cover grosses me out a little, but I'm not sure why. That's not necessarily a bad thing though, this is a zombie book and it can get pretty gory.

**I received an ARC of this book from Amazon Vine for my honest review.

I liked it. There was some funny parts, some blah parts, but overall I did like it. Full review to follow soon.

This book is written from 2 POVs. Cass who works at the government and is a psychic teenage girl. Then we have Jake, who is our zombie with a conscience.

 

I applaud the book for showing another way of zombieness. This time it is like herpes, it is sexually transmittable. I really liked that idea, it is new (at least for me), no more biting people = turning into a zombie. No, no, you have to have sex (without protection it seems).

 

While I loved Jake, he was a really great guy, trying his best to survive in the crazy world as it is now. Suddenly he turned zombie on his friends and he is now on the run with Amanda another girl who turned zombie on her friends at the same time as Jake. He is trying to make the right decisions, doesn't want this, doesn't want to eat people, but has too, because well other means won't work that well.

 

I didn't like Cass, while it gave us an insight in the whole government thing, I also found it boring to read about it and I didn't really like Cass. And I got tired of the constant nose bleeds. :
Those chapters that featured Cass were quite a chore to get through.

 

And let me say this. I HATED the ending. By God, I was hoping for a conclusive ending, let the book be done, but noooo of course not. Well I am not going to be reading the second book. I will probably hunt for reviews and see what they say.

Initial thoughts upon finishing this book: Loved the interesting and different take on zombies. Liked the characters. Liked that it had more depth than I had originally thought it would. Didn't like the ending. Hated Alastair. Wondering if this will be a series? There was a lot left open at the end of the book

 

Helpful tip: It's not a good idea to eat while reading this book. 

So far this is really funny but also seriously gory. I'm loving the interesting and different take on zombies. I hope it holds up for the rest of the book.