What I loved most about this was the intimacy of it. If you're looking for a good time, great sex (gay and straight), a few good laughs, and lots of chills and thrills, then look no further. I'm very much looking forward to the sequel. The good news here is that Zombielicious ended with a glimmer of hope for the remaining survivors. In most of the zombie stories I've read, all the characters have died. They live in a messed-up world where zombies are not the only danger. I enjoyed the easy interaction between the characters and though a couple of them were very unlikable, I was invested enough to care what happens to them. Then there's Walt and Molly, who are twins, and as different as night and day. There's Ace, an ex-cop now working as a security guard who knows about Jill's past and harasses her every chance he gets. There's Joey, who is a lab rat at a drug-testing facility in order to save enough money to get a place with his transgender friend, Ever. There's Jill, an ex-porn star once known as Katie "Killer" Cummings who is now working as a nurse. It was nice getting differing individual perspectives on the same events. It also worked well later on in the story, when the characters were together much of the time. This style worked well for me, as it made their stories more personal and made it easy for me to connect with them. This story is told in the first person from the perspectives of five main characters, one character per chapter.
I read the story in two sittings and loved the fast-paced and suspenseful action scenes, the suitably creepy zombies, the sad and touching moments, and the sizzling sex that was in turns tender, desperate, angry, and downright hilarious. The blurb and the cheesy cover art that reminds of B-horror films made me grin and I knew I was going to be in for a wild, action-packed, fun and lusty ride. I'm happy to report that Zombielicious succeeded on all counts. Others contain way too many boring, pseudo-scientific details about what caused the zombie contagion in the first place, and others contain zombies that are just not scary enough. Some move along at a breakneck pace, but the characters are so one-dimensional that it doesn't matter if they all die at the end. Not that all of them are good, of course.
OK, I'll admit I have a weakness for zombie novels. Cross-posted at Outlaw Reviews and at Shelf Inflicted
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