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.
I loved this book and this series. I can't even remember how I came across it, but I read the first one and immediately had to have the rest. They were laugh out loud funny and had plenty of romance, mystery and action to boot.
Angel is a fantastic kick-ass heroine. She's very relatable before and after she gets her shit together. I loved her sense of humor, her revelations, and everything. Reading her was a breath of fresh air and a relief, like I've been waiting for her to come along without knowing it.
I loved the mystery (though trigger warning: drug abuse, date rape attempt, abusive alcoholic and abusive mentally ill person) of what happened to her and what's happening to her.
I loved these zombies: their science, their lifestyles, their communities. I've played more zombie games than read zombie books and even I was bored with their stories. This set up was great and Angel is the perfect protagonist for it.
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