Review: Reposted from my blog but still valid...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2013
A novella in a new series from PJ Schnyder released today. If you are listening to what I say at all, there is a better than even chance you are a fan of the undead. Or more specifically... zombies. If so, this is your wheelhouse... your jam... or whatever the kids these days are saying. As long as they stay off of my lawn.London is being overrun with zombies. Barricades have been set up to keep the zombies in and from going wild over the country. Of course those blockades are also keeping the humans stuck inside. This brings us to the meeting point of our two heroes. Maisie is a human fighting the undead and protecting the living. I would almost venture to dub her an womanly version of Daryl Dixon. A total zombie killing badass (but with feelings).Seth (our other hero) comes upon her saving a group of people. He is the alpha of the London werewolf pack. The London pack has recently outed itself to the humans in an effort to help protect them from the outbreak of zombies. They are also trying to figure out what caused the outbreak and how to eliminate the virus. Not the least of which is due to the zombies starting to hunt in a more organized fashion.As PJ's editor put it during a Google+ meetup interview they did over the weekend, a zombie hunter romance as opposed to a zombie romance story. The physics if the latter is just... um... ew. This is like many good zombie stories and more about the survivors and less about the zombies. Also not nearly as apocalyptic as the Walking Dead. It meets in the middle giving us more opportunity to explore the romance alongside the zombie dispatching.What the author does, and does well, is she keeps pacing, gives us a solid plot. All the time keeping it real. Which is to say that the sexy bits are definitely sexy - as you would expect from a romance writer. At the same time the action scenes are realistic and believable. As you would expect from someone who knows how to fight. I've see a video of the author's right cross. Though the solidness of it has no bearing on the review. Really. She only scares me a little.If you are a fan of paranormal romance looking for a little more action, a bit more horror, or even just a new setting for your shifter hotties, pick this up. If you are an urban fantasy reader that understands that people sometimes shed the clothes and get crazy, you should also pick this up. For my part the entire thing felt a bit more urban fantasy, but the relationship between the two does lean it more towards the PR category. Fans of both I think will be pleasantly surprised.And if you enjoy the novella, the second entry in the London Undead series will be out in November. So a short wait to get your next fix. Overall I am going to give this one... 5 StarsMore because of the zombies, the action and the quality of writing than the author's wicked combination punch. Really.