Author: Diana Rowland
Series: White Trash Zombie
Genres: Zombies, Paranormal
Publisher: DAW
Release: October 6th, 2015
Source: ebook
Pages: 325
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BLURB:
Angel Crawford has buried her loser past and is cruising along in undead high gear--that is, until a murder-by-decapitation sends her on a hazardous detour. As Angel hunts for the killer, she uncovers a scheme that would expose zombies to the public and destroy the life she's built, and she's determined not to rest until she finds out who's behind it.
Soon she's neck-deep in lies, redneck intrigue, zombie hunters, and rot-sniffing cadaver dogs. It's up to her to unravel the truth and snuff out the conspiracy before the existence of zombies makes headline news and she's outed as a monster.
But Angel hasn't quite escaped the pill-popping ghosts of her past--not with an illicit zombie pharmaceutical at her fingertips. Good thing she's absolutely sure she can handle the drug's unpredictable side effects and still take down the bad guys...or maybe she's only one bad choice away from being dead meat--for real this time.
Angel knows a thing or two about kicking ass, but now the ass she needs to kick might be her own.
EXPECTATIONS: The last book was very action driven, with a lot of messy secrets left and right, and zombies going rogue due to their parasite going crazy. I expected a continuation on that, more lab action, research on what reanimates people, etc.
THE WORLD: I still can't recall where exactly is this place located. It's 2 hour drive from New Orleans, that's what I do remember. Anyway, in this wonderful little town there's a tribe of zombies living, and Angel is a part of it. Back in the day people filmed a zombie movie here, and some bad people used real live zombies for it, without anyone the wiser. Today it all seems to be attempting to bite them all in the posterior. This is the world of Zombie Exodus, Internet edition. For the movie filmed was indeed a zombie documentary, and some organizations are more than ready to expose the truth and create yet another hunt for zombies, forcing all of these people out.
CHARACTERS: Angel was a junkie before she got turned into a zombie. It changed her life for the better, it seemed, because all addictions she ever had - had to go, for nothing really worked on her, and she would've needed brains to fix the damage drugs induced too. And brains aren't all that easy or safe to obtain without creating a mess. But as the lab tries to do their best to help her Zombie Baby, the man she was forced to turn or let him die, a brand new pharma just for zombies gets created, and it has oh such nice effects. The only con is: will Angel stoop so low as to skim the meds from her Zombie Baby, a man who was nothing but kind to her ever since? There was very little focus on any other characters. In fact, at times it seemed absolutely illogical, for some people not only went their own ways and made their own lives after the last book, some even decided they hate Angel and think she's a burden. For no reason. She pulls her weight well, and then some. The only spotlight shone on others were Angel's father, who is becoming the father of the year ever since he stopped drinking. And Nick the Prick, her co-worker, who is undergoing something very, very stressful and straining, thus accidentally allowing the mask slip.
ROMANCE: Nick the Prick. After he helped Angel study for her exams he at least wasn't all that nasty to her anymore. He even took in her father after some disasters, without her even asking really. And in this book it escalates a step more, for the pressure he received from his father has cracked his immaculate angry-bitter-distant man fasade, and Angel was not only there to witness it, but to console and support him too.
GOOD: I do like the development in romance here. And the action was pretty great, even scary at points, for some zombies reanimated when they seemingly weren't supposed to anymore.
BAD: I don't understand, so everyone involved in the previous mission just decided Angel is no longer part of the Tribe? They all decided, after she saved the day, that she sucks and is not worth being friends with? Didn't make much sense.
OVERALL: As paranormal action romance detectives go, this one was above average. I did enjoy it enough, even if a lot of things made no human-feelings sense.
What do you think about WHITE TRASH ZOMBIE GONE WILD?
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