Review: This Is Funny.  Seriously Funny.  Really, Really Funny.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2011
This is a Samhaim Publishing title, but unlike any I have ever read.  Don't get me wrong, a lot of the Samhaim titles are funny.  And hot.  As in "Hot" hot.  Not how this book is hot.  This book is hot because of the pyromancer-leader-of-the-mercenaries-who-do-battle-against-the-evil-zombie-minions of Jeremiah.  Not nookie hot.Yep, I said  Jeremiah.  He's the bad guy who simultaneously resists his number 2's efforts to change his name to something more impressive, while plotting for the dominion of the gelatin industry.  Yep, I said gelatin industry.  How?  By using slave zombie labor--leveraging his ability to use a workforce without a union, lunch breaks (if you don't count the occasional annoying salesman), OHSA standards, or protective equipment concerns (what's a little zombie flesh mixed in the product???) and that work 23 hour days without comprehensible complaint--the ultimate in cheap labor.The Department of Homeland Security considers this a serious destabilizing threat to the economic status quo around the world, thus posing a threat to National Security and possibly even allowing the public's faith in the sanctity of the Food and Drug Administration to falter.  Unfortunately for Homeland Security the normal 'interventional units' are busy, so the mercenaries are called in...with explosive results.Thankfully there is no active nookie going on, because, well, that would be gross in a book about zombies.  (If you are wondering why I bring up the hot/nookie issue, then you might not know that this publishing house is a font of well, hot nookie).  This on the other hand is true-red Urban Fantasy.  Oh, there is a little romantic subplot, and one of the characters is a succubus (but shy) and another is a gay demon, and did I mention the seriously horny werewolf?  But nothing to take this out of the realm of urban fantasy, so if you are looking for a more typical title from this publisher, well this is not it.All I can say is that this is one terrifically funny urban fantasy novel.  Truly enjoyable and worth the read and I can only hope more are on the way.Highly Recommended!!JTG