The nitty-gritty: The zombie apocalypse meets Watership Down in Kira Jane Buxton’s glorious, emotional and hysterically funny debut. This book will change the way you think about animals, life and death, and may even give you a deeper appreciation of Cheetos® I fluttered my gular, hating the part of me that they recognized, desperately wanting […]
The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey Genre: Adult horror Publisher: Orbit Books Release date: June 10 2014 Source: e-ARC from publisher via NetGalley Pages: 407 What she thinks is: this could have been me. Why not? A real girl, in a real house, with a mother and a father and a brother […]
Welcome to my stop on the Dark Metropolis Blog Tour, hosted by Itching For Books. You can read my review below. Series: Dark Metropolis #1 Release date: June 17th 2014Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Cabaret meets Cassandra Clare-a haunting magical thriller set in a riveting 1930s-esque world. Sixteen-year-old Thea Holder’s mother is cursed with a spell that’s driving her mad, and […]
Thank you to everyone who entered! Rafflecopter has selected Aleksandra Nakova as the winner! Congratulations:) I’m super excited to be part of the Vamps vs. Zombies Blog Hop, hosted by My Shelf Confessions! You can hop to each blog that is participating and enter to win a different vamp or zombie item at each one. […]
Desper Hollow by Elizabeth Massie Genre: Adult Horror Publisher: Apex Publications Release date: June 3 2013 Source: e-ARC from publisher Pages: 226 In a word: Deliverance with zombies! Good bloody fun combined with comedic timing, an authentic southern back-woods voice, and an unexpected hint of heart. Ain’t nothing else to do in Desper Hollow. Ain’t […]
“Everything may be the same all around me, but I wasn’t the same girl anymore. I’d fallen in love with a flesh-eating member of a superior race currently living beneath our feet.” I “met” Kate Evangelista online and helped promote the trailer for Taste. Later, I was able to convince her to send me an […]
Usually in this blog, I try to keep my reviews to current releases, which makes sense because I rarely “go back in time” to try to catch up with books I’ve missed. This October, however, I broke that rule and picked up Handling the Undead, a book that was released a year ago. I did […]
Let’s get this straight: Zone One is a zombie novel. There is blood, viscera, various bodily fluids streaming through the gutters, dead men walking, and heads being blown off right and left. There is terror and running away and hiding from the dead. There is a dying world without electricity, ash-covered streets, and bleak prospects […]
As promised last week, I am featuring Colson Whitehead’s newest, Zone One, in bookstores and online today. Arriving on the heals of season two of The Walking Dead (AMC), Zone One is a Zombie Novel, one I am very excited to read. Yes folks, zombies are everywhere. The trend is alive and well and not […]