Review: Hormones vs. the Walking Dead
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 21, 2013
I know this book belonged in the YA "zombie" category, but that is a ruse. It's about a jilted girl whose high school crush put her through hell as he tossed her emotions and self esteem around like a yo-yo, and never owned up to it.  It's only a convenient coincidence that a lot of dead people are trying to dine on them when they meet four years later, but it's still just a story about an unhappy girl meeting the wrong guy.  This poor girl still feels the pain of what he did to her, and some of the lingering love she wasted on a 17 year old jerk. Our poor girl doesn't have the wits to realize that this guy couldn't have changed that much in such a short time, no matter what lame excuses he babbles out.To compound this, we have to wade through two awful side plots dealing with the search for a worthless, snotty little sister, and a "Texas Chainsaw" sub-plot. So the two lead characters dance around each other with a good degree of mutual stupidity, mixed with hormone highs (mistaken for affection).  It's such a ridiculous plot, with very unlikeable characters, I can't believe I didn't drop this story into limbo after one chapter and write this review earlier! We all fall for this false hope sometime (You all know what I'm talking about:  "maybe the story will get better…").  My antennae for poor writing should have popped up earlier just based on the  numerous, atrocious spelling errors.Pop quiz:  When two people meet again after a disastrous high school romance (if you can call it that) goes south, and they're now about 21, surrounded by zombies they have just battled against, with more on the way, what's the first thing they should do?(1) Run like hell!(2) Stand around like idiots admiring how their bodies have filled out.(If you chose #2, you should immediately buy a book called "Zombies for Dummies", or something like that, in case that scenario should ever come about.)