My Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland

My Life as a White Trash Zombie (White Trash Zombie, #1)

by Diana Rowland

Horror meets humorous urban fantasy in first book of the White Trash Zombie series • Winner of the 2012 Best Urban Fantasy Protagonist by the RT Awards

Angel Crawford is a Loser.

Living with her alcoholic deadbeat dad in the swamps of southern Louisiana, she's a high school dropout with a pill habit and a criminal record who's been fired from more crap jobs than she can count. Now on probation for a felony, it seems that Angel will never pull herself out of the downward spiral her life has taken.

That is, until the day she wakes up in the ER after overdosing on painkillers. Angel remembers being in a horrible car crash, but she doesn't have a mark on her. To add to the weirdness, she receives an anonymous letter telling her there's a job waiting for her at the county morgue—and that it's an offer she doesn't dare refuse.

Before she knows it she's dealing wth a huge crush on a certain hunky deputy and a brand new addiction: an overpowering craving for brains. Plus, her morgue is filling up with the victims of a serial killer who decapitates his prey—just when she's hungriest!

Angel's going to have to grow up fast if she wants to keep this job and stay in one piece. Because if she doesn't, she's dead meat.

Literally.

Reviewed by Amanda on

4 of 5 stars

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I think what I appreciated most about My Life as a White Trash Zombie is the mystery aspect. As this was my first ever zombie novel (though I suppose Pride and Prejudice and Zombies counts? I always forget about it), the mystery helped win me over and ease the transition to reading about zombies. Like Angel, the bulk of my exposure to zombies has been what is portrayed in the movies, so Diana Rowland’s take on zombies was a new one to me. And I liked it.

There were two interrelated mysteries here, and both were well-crafted. Because I read My Life as a White Trash Zombie while on vacation, I read in bits and pieces over two days, and I hate reading books in this way; it is not conducive to writing reviews. My Life as a White Trash Zombie wasn’t the type of book that I found difficult to put down, but it was still an intriguing mystery that had me guessing almost right up until the end. And though I am not ready to call it the best last 4 chapters in a book like Felicia, the ending was definitely fantastic, and I am excited to see where Diana Rowland will take the series.

Angel is not your average heroine, but that is also part of her draw. She doesn’t realize right away that she has become a zombie, and her sudden craving for braaaaainssss as well as her disgust by the craving is nearly comical. Though she lacks even a GED, Angel is proof that you don’t need diplomas or degrees in order to be smart; intelligence is not something that can be taught. I am interested to see where the next books take Angel. The supporting characters were almost as compelling as Angel herself, and I hope that we will see more of them in book 2.

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