Review: I loved it being the zombie lover I am.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2011
Book Title: The Undying Apathy of Imogen ShroudAuthor: Ben WhitePublished By: Clover Island Publishing (April 14, 2011)Genre: HorrorRecommended Age:  +14Reviewed By: Emily Tuley / AngelsCryHavocBlog Reviewed For: Great Minds Think Aloud Literary CommunityRating:  4 RavensFirst upon my receiving of this book I forgot that I had registered to win it off of Librarything. Being swamped with recent reviews and as well as the holidays I glanced at the title and then selected it for one of my weekly reads. Imagine my surprise when I realized this wasn't your normal Zombie story.  Being the lovers of Zombie literature I was expecting a lot of the same old same old.  I'm pleased to find that it was nothing of the sort and actually enjoyed this book thoroughly especially with the odd turn of events.  The Undying Apathy of Imogen Shroud will have you laughing, crying a little and then laughing more as she struggles not only to save her life but her brothers , mothers, grandfathers and ... dad?Imogen is a 17 year old girl, dealing with the loss of her first girlfriend and the fact that she is a lesbian. Depressed clinically to the point that she doesn't even want to leave her room.  She finds the only reason she gets out is to do what her mother forces her to do. Which are take care of her brother and go see her senile and little crazy grandfather. Who brings a very laughable dirty old man to the mix. He's quite crazy but Imogen clearly loves him.  Upon returning from visiting with her grandfather, Imogen is told by her mother that she is taking her brother to his comicon a comic book convention at the convention center.  Unknowing of the crazy day that will begin for them both once there.As if the costume wearing comic geeks weren't enough for Imogen as she things of them at times. She's stuck with a crowd of people, nowhere to smoke and the feelings of depression struggling just to go home and stay in her funk wishing she was dead. For someone who wishes so hard to die it's clear later that Imogen wants to live. Due to a weather experiment from some Japanese scientists a crazy wind is unleashed upon the whole of the US and Imogen finds herself in the middle of the whole crazy thing when whatever was in those winds starts to bring the dead back to life. The problem with these dead is you can't kill them by just a hole in the head. In fact they can't be killed at all only disabled but that begins the whole crazy hard display of life or death situations making Imogen fight... fight for her life and fight for her little brother who she loves just to get home. Meeting a list of crazy characters and other people as well as Zed Imogen and her group fight to get out of the city and home.