Review: Hilarious and kooky
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2014
It became evident early on that in order to give this book the credit it deserves I would need to embrace my inner weird.Twenty-two year old Q is an odd duck. Her best friend, Hannah, is a six year old student in her kindergarten class. Mrs. Mason, her mentor is an evil dictator, paranoid someone is stealing items from her pigeonhole. Rabbit, a vegan hippie folk singer catches Q's eye when he comes to school and traumatizes children with his version of "New McDonald". Much like I was traumatized when I bought Skinny Bitch and thought it was a diet book. I guess graphically describing the process of how animals are slaughtered and all the gross things that occur along the way would cause someone to lose weight from sheer starvation.Desperate to find Rabbit and form a love connection, Q cyber stalks him and joins an assortment of vegan groups in hopes of running into him. Her tenacity pays off and Q finds herself travelling in a hippie bus on a weekend retreat with Rabbit and his group, the Yowie's. The trip doesn't turn out to be the bliss Q envisions, because the zombie outbreak she's spent years prepping for has finally arrived. So caught up with her lust for Rabbit, Q missed all the signs of the apocalypse. Ever the proper prepper, Q makes sure to give Hannah a satellite hotphone to the two can stay in touch.Q assigns fitting nicknames to her new "friends". Pious Kate, Rabbit's ex-girlfriend, lawyer-vegan extraordinaire hell bent on winning Rabbit back, and may or may not be infected. Along with Sheath of Power, the Scarlet Terror, Tinkabella, Princess Starla, and creepy old caretaker guy, Dave.I don't see the allure of Rabbit. No amount of good looks could make me pine for a wimp. I'm all for women wearing the pants in the relationship but that doesn't mean I want to see the men in skirts. The idea of two women fighting for this man's affections is so outrageous that it's almost believable. The only thing I couldn't get fully on board with was the relationship between Q and Hannah. To be best friends with a six year old, not related to you, struck me as inappropriate.A Single Girl's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is hilarious and kooky. This is definitely not your run of the mill zombie fiction. I fully recommend this book to readers, and look forward to seeing what JT Clay comes up with next.