Review: Different but funny in an offbeat way
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2014
What you say?...I'm reading something that is way not a category romance? Not even close.Who would have thought that after training all her life for the Zombie Apocalypse, Q would almost miss it because she was distracted by a boy. Beautiful Rabbit who shows up in her classroom singing New McDonald had a farm with graphic details about what happens to the little piggies. This triggered a rash of images from the Kindy kids that caused grave expressions on the faces of Q's superiors. It also triggered love, followed by stalking, followed by being in the company of a whole lot of radical vegans when the zombie apocalypse hit.This is not your average romance. Yet there is a classic love triangle between the beautiful Rabbit, the evil Pious Kate, and our socially dysfunctional heroine, known as Q. Or Qarantene when slaying zombies on-line keeping her hand in.For a zombie story this is quite light hearted. All the standard stuff happens but it is filtered through Q's experiences and quirky view of the world and softened by her feelings for Rabbit. Until the zombies came, Q's quirkiness was just weird. After...well she was made for this.This was a very different read...I suspect it would be different for most people. Q was an interesting non-standard heroine and Rabbit would not even make it in the alphabet for romantic heroes. But I have to say I enjoyed it. I had a slow start with it and put it down a couple of times but it speeds up halfway through and I was with it all the way to the end from there.In terms of romance this would qualify as sweet. Even the zombies were not gross, gross. Not the stuff of nightmares though there was a little tension towards the end that had me worried.Only thing that niggled a little, apart from the slow start is that at the epilogue I wasn't sure whether somewhere under the humour about hippy vegans wasn't a message that secretly we should want to be like them. It just made me want to eat beef jerky.