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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Sep29 2%

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

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.

Just finished another installment of the White Trash Zombie series and I am loving it. I plan to continue reading this series until I am fully caught up so the next few reviews will be about this series.

Diana Rowland is a talented writer. I love how she has an conversational tone to her books. I feel as if I'm talking to a friend as I read these books. It's definitely a writing style I appreciate tremendously. I started reading the first book because I was looking for something to ease my mind from what was going on around me, and I found a friend in these books.

Angel Crawford is an amazing character. She grows so much throughout the series and we see her grow the most in this book. She has so much self-respect and dreams for herself. We see her grow into a maturity when it comes to her father that as the reader, we are left rooting for her, hoping she succeeds in whatever she decides to do.

My only complaint about this book, and it's a minor one that doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the book, is that I wanted to see her interact more with the characters that work of the coroner's office. In the previous two books, she established relationships with her co-workers Derrel, Nick, and Dr. Leblanc. However, we don't get to see them much in this book. In fact, she's hardly at the coroner's office at all. I missed that element of the book. Although, I didn't mind seeing her interact with new characters like Brian, a bodyguard who works for zombie mafia boss named Pietro, I still wanted to see her progressing and improving her older friendships. But like I said, it's not a problem that the focus this time around was not around the coroner's office and the workers therein. I just would have liked to see more of them.

In short, I really like this series. I love how action-packed it is, I love how conversational the writing is, I love the characters and how diverse the world is, I just love everything about this book series. If you haven't read this series yet, I highly encourage you to do so. It's a lot more enjoyable than I thought it would be and I am so glad that it is!

Our favorite white trash zombie, Angel Crawford, has enough problems of her own, what with dealing with her alcoholic, deadbeat dad, issues with her not-quite boyfriend, the zombie mafia, industrial espionage and evil corporations. Oh, and it’s raining, and won’t let up.

But things get even crazier when a zombie movie starts filming in town, and Angel begins to suspect that it’s not just the plot of the movie that's rotten. Soon she's fighting her way through mud, blood, bullets and intrigue, even as zombies, both real and fake, prowl the streets.

Angel’s been through more than her share of crap, but this time she’s in way over her head. She’ll need plenty of brainpower to fit all the pieces—and body parts—together in order to save herself, her town, and quite possibly the human race.

I really like how far Angel grew since book one. Not too much and not too little. Just the right amount. I also like that she has some setbacks throughout her journey.

She continues to build a better life for her dad and herself. She still works hard on her GED and of course she still works in the morgue.

The relationship with her dad still a bit strained but both are working on it. I love that it takes a while, instead just having a magic cure. It has his up and downs with them two. And things defiantly get tested for them in this book.

I love that Angel starting to be more and more “mushy” about people and really starting to let people in.

 We have some familiar faces and some new ones. But we never know who to trust and who not to trust. Some people we thought were with us but really were not. Others was the opposite.

Marcus Oh man I cannot decide on him. Should I like him or shouldn’t I?? I have no clue, I’m all over the place when it comes to Marcus. Sometimes I want to smack him and a few pages later I like him again.

Pietro. Hmmmmmm as much as I want to, I still do not trust him and we still not really know how much her really is the good guy. He has his hands in everything good or bad. He seems genuine but also seems to be playing it well…. I really don’t know. The jury is still out when it comes to him.

Phillip. I have a feeling I will like Phillip, evil or good it doesn’t matter.

Nick, (“the prick”). I really love Nick and wish we get more of him. Even hoping he and Angel hook up at one point.

I also enjoyed Brian, I think we will see a lot more of him and hopefully learn a bit more about him.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. It started out a bit slower than the first couple books but picked later on.

Also some things are better explained in this book, and we learn more about the zombies. It is also hinted that they might or might not be more to Angel. Why or what is a mystery for another book I guess.

I rate this book 4 ★

Some of my favorite quotes:

Zombies Anonymous? Hello, my name is Angel, and it’s been three weeks since I’ve shambled.

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Props to stubborn-bitch-willpower for saving the day.

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“...with that I turned into a punching, struggling, kicking psycho redneck zombie bitch.”

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“God damn, but there was nothing better tasting in the whole damn world than warm brain when you were shot the hell up. Like a cold beer after a long hot day of working in the yard.”

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