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This was a tough one for me. This book had me feeling bipolar in some ways. It had these really great moments where I felt the author would redeem the female lead for me, and then he would go back down into this pit of unlikablity. Hannah wasn't a character I would call strong. I guess with the way the author wrote her, he pulled if off if that was his goal. She was weak-minded, superficial, selfish, and really mean. But I also felt that every female character in this book was laid out to be this way. I couldn't figure out if this was the way the author wanted this 'town' to be, but based on Hannah's introspect, the author seemed to make a generalization of how girls are in high school. It is laid out that every teenage girl wants to be popular, blonde, worshiped, and adored. This guy has obviously never met the comic book|fangirl|nerd chick (That was me.) I didn't care about popular, actually I related to Lukas if I am being honest. I live my life in origin stories, revenge stories, or redemption stories aka comic book story arcs. But I'm not sure if this author was venting a personal hatred towards high school girls in general, or if he was writing a cautionary tale. I honestly was thinking one way, then Hannah's action would have me going towards the other story arc option. Not to mention the author built TOO much tension. He waited until the last 2 1/2 chapters for anything amazing to happen. I was waiting and waiting for zombie action, how this was going to take place, and I was WAITING. When you spend too much time in a characters head who is unlikable you tend to not care about the awesome gruesome action when you get there.

I kept finding myself wanting more Lukas, then feeling bad when he came into the scenes because Hannah treated him like garbage. Then she realizes AT THE END he was a good person? I kinda wanted to toss her ot the flesh eating cheerleaders at that point. When I don't care if a cheerleader lives or dies that is a problem. It was written similar to old school Tales from the Crypt episodes because the leads in those were very rarely good people. You always were waiting for them to get their comeuppance. At the end of the day, I just wasn't totally feeling this story. I am not sure it was right for him to write in a female POV, I would have totally enjoyed the book if it was in Lukas's POV. The book gets two stars for him putting in what I like to call one of MY people into the story, and for the fact he isn't a bad writer, he just wrote in a female POV and it didn't work for me. I have to like the girl who's head I'm in. I see this as more of a 'boy book' he wouldn't mind it because I'm pretty sure teen boys think this of teen girls. But on the other hand with the rise of the comic book films no one has to face persecution for showing you like comics now--so this book might prove to date itself a bit.

As a whole, I would recommend this book to the teenage boy crowd. I don't think females would find this book very flattering.

*I purchased a copy of this book at the friends of the library bookstore*


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Zombie Blondes Brian James 9780312372989 Books Reviews

2.5/5

Fifteen year old Hannah and her dad are always moving to run away from his problems. When they arrive in Maplecrest, things seem strange. The town is eerily quiet, and most of the houses are deserted and up for sale. When she meets the popular girls at school, nearly identical pale, blonde cheerleaders, she’s desperate to fit in. So desperate, that she doesn’t heed her friend Lukas’ warning they’re zombies, and they’ll turn her into one too if she’s not careful…

I love zombies. I’m waiting for the day a zombie apocalypse befalls us, and I. will. be. ready! So, I was excited to read this book. It seemed like a fresh, unique take on the zombie tale. But, *sigh,* was it ever disappointing.

First of all, this was hardly a zombie tale. No zombie action happened until the very end. Leading up to that, the zombies seemed like regular people, if a little strange. It was lacking all the excitement and action of a zombie story, and until the end, the zombies were very unconvincing. They don’t act like zombies at all. Robots, maybe, with their (nearly) identical appearances and actions… but zombies? Notsomuch.

Okay, so aside from that major issue, the book wasn’t bad. Hannah is the new girl in town, she wants to fit in but struggles, she meets boys, has problems at home, etc. See, this could have been a good story, if it wasn’t trying to be a zombie story. I wanted zombies and I barely got them. Either there needed to be a lot more zombie action, or this should have not been a zombie book at all, just Hannah’s story and struggles with moving all around and whatnot.

The writing was good. The characters were interesting. The book moved along at a really fast pace; I read it in a day and a half… so I definitely didn’t hate it, I was just disappointed because my expectations were much different from what was presented.
This was a tough one for me. This book had me feeling bipolar in some ways. It had these really great moments where I felt the author would redeem the female lead for me, and then he would go back down into this pit of unlikablity. Hannah wasn't a character I would call strong. I guess with the way the author wrote her, he pulled if off if that was his goal. She was weak-minded, superficial, selfish, and really mean. But I also felt that every female character in this book was laid out to be this way. I couldn't figure out if this was the way the author wanted this 'town' to be, but based on Hannah's introspect, the author seemed to make a generalization of how girls are in high school. It is laid out that every teenage girl wants to be popular, blonde, worshiped, and adored. This guy has obviously never met the comic book|fangirl|nerd chick (That was me.) I didn't care about popular, actually I related to Lukas if I am being honest. I live my life in origin stories, revenge stories, or redemption stories aka comic book story arcs. But I'm not sure if this author was venting a personal hatred towards high school girls in general, or if he was writing a cautionary tale. I honestly was thinking one way, then Hannah's action would have me going towards the other story arc option. Not to mention the author built TOO much tension. He waited until the last 2 1/2 chapters for anything amazing to happen. I was waiting and waiting for zombie action, how this was going to take place, and I was WAITING. When you spend too much time in a characters head who is unlikable you tend to not care about the awesome gruesome action when you get there.

I kept finding myself wanting more Lukas, then feeling bad when he came into the scenes because Hannah treated him like garbage. Then she realizes AT THE END he was a good person? I kinda wanted to toss her ot the flesh eating cheerleaders at that point. When I don't care if a cheerleader lives or dies that is a problem. It was written similar to old school Tales from the Crypt episodes because the leads in those were very rarely good people. You always were waiting for them to get their comeuppance. At the end of the day, I just wasn't totally feeling this story. I am not sure it was right for him to write in a female POV, I would have totally enjoyed the book if it was in Lukas's POV. The book gets two stars for him putting in what I like to call one of MY people into the story, and for the fact he isn't a bad writer, he just wrote in a female POV and it didn't work for me. I have to like the girl who's head I'm in. I see this as more of a 'boy book' he wouldn't mind it because I'm pretty sure teen boys think this of teen girls. But on the other hand with the rise of the comic book films no one has to face persecution for showing you like comics now--so this book might prove to date itself a bit.

As a whole, I would recommend this book to the teenage boy crowd. I don't think females would find this book very flattering.

*I purchased a copy of this book at the friends of the library bookstore*