Review: Hilarious + heartwarming series
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 21, 2013
I am totally and utterly addicted to this really fun series of novellas!And it's mostly because of the outrageous humour, it really lifts the series up out of the zombie muck, though there is lots of that too! It's comical every time our main character Reagan (ex-cheerleader and serious survivor) has to wash zombie brains and other unmentionables out of her hair.I'm going to throw a few of my favorite quotes in here:"I had clown feet even for my 5'8 frame and most of the time I found myself searching for dead men with oddly small feet." - Reagan, about looking for shoes to fit."And I definitely didn't want trench foot. Not that I knew what trench foot was exactly... but I knew it was a big deal for everyone on Band of Brothers - my go to reference for everything survival." - Reagan, the shoe stuff was pretty gold. So were her comments about guns at the beginning of the book, but it's too long to quote."Basically, this sucked. [...] there were at least three of them, these two and the one munching away on all that delicious dead flesh.""The difference between girls and boys was that the boys could go days without a razor and they looked better. I went days without a razor and people started reporting Big Foot sightings."In this world, anyone who has contracted herpes and goes to get the medical cure for it becomes zombified, and it spreads from there. Zombies are extra cool in this one, I really like how they are described, things seem to go in stages from confused to like super evil red-eyed nutjobs. It's even theorized that they are organizing themselves, very unique, at least for me anyways. I am not necessarily a connoisseur of the genre, but after watching teens handle the apocalypse in Elle Casey's Apocalpysis series, I was game to try another series and this first novella was free! I love a nice free kindle purchase :)So the story starts with Reagan, her first zombie encounter was with a cheating ex-boyfriend who tried to kill/eat her. She beats the ever-loving crap out of him, decapitates him by running over him with her car and takes off with her best friend Haley in search of a safe place to start the world again. They are heading to Peru, but it's slow going and almost two years later they have gone as far as Missouri from their original starting point of Iowa. Of course they run into some boys... a LOT of boys. Well, okay five. They are brothers and they have a little sister with them too (she is like 8 or 9 and is an adorable addition to the story by the way! Some of the sweetest moments involve protecting Page).I really appreciate how much work the author has put in to giving them all their own individual personalities, I think that can be tough sometimes with so many brothers. For Reagan, I am Team Hendrix, because nothing beats his dry humour, he seriously catches me off guard all the time with the things that come out of his mouth! But, I am sooo happy with the slothlike progression of their relationship, it is realistic! Who has time to hook up with boys when you are fending off zombies all the time!? So yeah, you can tell there are some romantic interests in this series, and it's all good fun, but it isn't the be all and end all of this series. I just can't help myself from picking a side up front, I think I've been brainwashed in the YA/NA genre... yeah, that's it!