The format of this book was pretty cool. It had audio links in it like music and other things to go along with story. To be honest I didn't really pay all that much attention  to the story because I was too busy playing with the links. I didn't like that I had to read the book while online and click to different sites for the link to the noise. It would have possibly been better to just have a big file containing it all at once. It sort of distracted from the story. It's a new idea and I hope that improvements are made. I would have rated it much better if the concept had been better executed.

This is for young adults, and read like a middle grade novel. It was a neat concept though. Yes you get zombies, the regular kind. Then you have the nes with a conscience. 

Opening Excerpt:

When I was a kid, I always knew I was different. I could feel something burning down deep inside. I always knew I was different. I could feel some burning down deep inside. I always imagined I would grow up to be a special, maybe become the President, maybe a rocket scientist. What I did not expect to become was a leader of an uprising zombie army.

And yet , here I was…

Description (Amazon):

They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But sometimes, under extreme circumstances, it's exactly that which kills you that makes you stronger. And faster. And a member to a new, elite race of zombies.

Armed with a current address for his biological grandfather and a slightly unusual, yet loyal best friend, Doyle Hawthorne sets out to discover the truth about his past. But answers don't come easily, and the closer Doyle arrives to his destination, the more confusing things become. Disturbing alterations to his physical appearance as well as to his personality flicker on and off as Doyle searches for a logical explanation.

Despite the increasing severity of these uncontrolled flare-ups, Doyle is determined to keep his first date with Addy - a beautiful, young woman he has met upon his arrival into town. After narrowly subduing his raging impulses, Doyle quickly decides not even death itself can keep him from her. Unfortunately, he is about to test that theory.

Once initiated, nothing can alter the process of shading - the term given to the three distinct phases of becoming a higher classification of zombie, commonly referred to as "royals". Doyle must learn to control his tendency toward violence as well as his newfound royal powers if there is any chance of protecting those he loves from a mad scientist, the government, the colony of royals, and most importantly... himself.

My thoughts:

I didn’t know how well I would like a book where the main character was a zombie, but I liked this, a lot. It wasn’t a heavy, life altering read. It was just plain FUN! The writing is solid, there are no major errors in grammar or spelling. This is in the New Adult category, and it reads like it belongs there. This is written from in first person from Doyle’s perspective. I said recently that I am not a fan of stories written in first person viewpoint, but this worked for me. I didn’t get tired of read the word "I" over and over, or get so annoyed with Doyle that I couldn’t stand him by the end of the book. You get insight into the other characters of the story through dialogue and actions, and the characters by the end of the story are well developed and left me feeling like I had gotten to really know them. They are young college aged students, and act like it.

This is a trilogy. There was romance in this, but not as much as I thought there would be. I do expect that part of the story to evolve in the next two books. This book focused mostly on the transition Doyle went through as he became a Royal Zombie, and it was an interesting transformation. I was expecting something similar to the Twilight series. While I do think readers of that series would enjoy this, it felt a little older. There were scenes that reminded me of The Vampire Diaries, the T.V, series, not the books.

Recommended To:

Fans of Twilight by Stephanie Meyer, The Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith, The Lux series by Jennifer Armentrout, Dante Walker series by Victoria Scott, etc.

An Excerpt I Enjoyed:

(Jenny is Doyle’s adoptive sister)

I closed the door, shutting Jenny out, and stepped into the tub. Vaguely, I realized I hadn’t showered since my “bed baths” with Addy. I sniffed my armpit. My entire face puckered instantly. Zombie B.O. was definitely the worst. I set the shower to hot and lathered twice.

When I had finished and was fully dressed once again, I opened the door and Jenny shook her head at me. “You didn’tbrush your teeth,” she scolded.

Brush my teeth? Was she Kidding? I was pretty sure zombies didn’t have dental plans. It wasn’t like I was going to get a cavity. But I wasn’t able to communicate my thoughts on the subject effectively yet, so I rolled my eyes and reached for the toothbrush on the sink. I squeezed a line of toothpaste on top and after two passes along the front of my teeth, I realized the bristles had all been sheared off. I glared at Jenny.

She covered a smile and said, “Well there’s no reason you can’t at least do a shot of mouthwash.”

At the time of this review:

US Link ($0.99):

http://www.amazon.com/Royal-Descent-Doyle-Hawthorne-Series-ebook/dp/B00F2YAX9M

UK Link (€0.99):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Royal-Descent-Doyle-Hawthorne-Book-ebook/dp/B00F2YAX9M/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1442022491&sr=1-1&keywords=of+royal+descent

Aust Link ($1.36):

http://www.amazon.com.au/Royal-Descent-Doyle-Hawthorne-Book-ebook/dp/B00F2YAX9M/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1442022749&sr=1-2&keywords=of+royal+descent

I won this book in a Booklikes giveaway.

I saw this in the giveaway section here on Booklikes. It says this version is with cool horror music and videos. I have never read an ebook with music  and videos. I signed up for it. There are 100 copies up for grabs.

Love Zombies of San Diego

E Z Graves

isbn: 9781492863298

language: English

format: ebook

categories: Horror, Science-Fiction, YA

Finalist in the San Diego Book Awards, 2014, and in the Global eBook Awards, 2104, this novel by E. Z. Graves contains a lot of zombie killing. San Diego has become infested with a strange breed of "zombee," and the Love Zombies are out to make a name for themselves. Led by Josh, this gang of mutant humans--not quite homo sapien and not quite zombie--joins with some breather teens in La Jolla to fight the plague. This is the embellished version with cool horror music and videos.

The zombie apocalypse is upon us, the government is attempting to nip it in the bud by wiping out entire areas where full permeation has occurred. The smartest people—who use their brains and don't believe everything the government tells them—are convinced that's not the solution. But some of the more slimy yet enterprising degenerates of the business world are trying to make a buck off the zombie invasion. Zombie porn anyone?!

Enter Henry and his whacked out friend Sam, who head to Las Vegas on a job that will net them a huge sum of cash to retrieve a zombie from the vast desert north of the Vegas strip and deliver it to the Sharks Hotel & Casino. Voila! Everyone's happy! Only things don't go down quite that easy... and Henry is in for the run of his life!

Though it took me a little while to get into the writing style—the overuse of colons and abundance of section breaks—I found after awhile that the choppiness of it worked well here and actually added to the overall tone of the story.

At only 90 pages, this short book is full of non-stop action, at 100 mph! What you get for investing only an hour or two of your time is a campy, dark comedy with a highly original plot and lots of humorous tongue-in-cheek dialogue—and inner monologue. Oh and of course, hungry shambling zombies. :)

"Talk about your minority groups!"

And this is me.

Look, I think there are good ideas behind some rather stilted writing.   But sighs.   The whole love zombie thing has me doing a Spock eyebrow anyway. 

But then I read that one line and I'm all like hells no.   

I need this, I want this, and I'm also kinda like