The story begins as our eponymous heroine is learning about ancient Egyptian anthropology and stumbles upon a taboo gravesite, where she is infected after a strange scuffle. EVE BRENNER covers a lot of ground: geographically from small-town Canada to the Egyptian ruins and back again, and emotionally from a tight-knit trio starting college together to total zombie pandemonium. It's rare to read a debut novel written with such confidence, not to mention such momentum. I can think of little to compare it to outside of Stuart Gordon's film version of Lovecraft's RE-ANIMATOR. I was delighted to receive an advanced reader's copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.Įqual parts sexy and gory, hilarious and heartwrenching, EVE BRENNER: ZOMBIE GIRL is an astonishing debut.
She was a great story teller and I hope to hear more of her stories in the future. I appreciated the reach out by the author and hope she continues to learn from her work and to grow with her passion. You knew they were best friends and they talked as if they were best friends, but I didn't feel anything below a surfaced relationship between them. I would say that the relationships were kind of assumed, not shown, to the reader.
There is a lot of room to grow with that. There was some gore, as it is expected with any zombie book, but it wasn't to the point that I was finding myself gagging from the details. I'm not sure why it is labeled New Adult, because there isn't any New Adult content in it. The writing was a little out of bounds for me. She had a fresh pair of eyes on an over-done type of story and it was refreshing. The author took a lot of liberties with her folk tale and I appreciated that. You don't get enough of this kind of paranormal, so I really loved that. She is still kind of human and can pass for human and such, but she still needs to feed on flesh and all that disgusting stuff. This one reminds me a little more of iZombie. There are about a zillion types of zombie lure out there. Well, she got the life altering part down. They were all at a dig site when Eve decided to be an idiot and try to find something so life-altering, that they would name a prize after her. Why would you cross over yellow tape and go into an unmarked cave that only someone your size could fit through by yourself? Girl, you are lucky getting bit was the only thing that happened to you.Įve, Cam and Alex are the closest friends.
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