Name: My Life as a White Trash Zombie
ISBN: 9780756406752

Diana Rowland

After overdosing on painkillers, Angel wakes up in the emergency room with a craving for brains and an anonymous letter that states that there's a job offer she shouldn't refuse at the county morgue.

My Life as a White Trash Zombie

Melissa Palmer

Book #60 Read in 2012
My Life as a White Trash Zombie

This is the first book in a series. Angel wakes up in the emergency room, not really remembering how she got there. She gets a note telling her that she now has a job in the coroner's office. She does not know who got her the job but she needs a job and money. Then she gets a note to eat brains. She is not sure why but this makes sense to her; she is actually craving brains. Eventually she realizes that she is a zombie.

There is someone going around killing people and chopping off their heads. Angel fairly quickly figures out that the victims had all been zombies. So now she knows that there is a zombie killer on the loose. To further complicate things, her drunken father destroys her brain stash. Things escalate quickly from bad to worse. But help comes from some surprising sources at times.

This book was a good, fun read. It had mystery elements, a hint of romance, good action and humor. Angel is a complex, interesting character. She seems to be hard core but she has a soft center. There are decent secondary characters in the book as well. Angel's father is a character that readers will love to hate.

I enjoyed this book and have the second book on my Kindle to read. Hope to get to it soon.

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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 an 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 parish morgue--and that it's an offer she doesn't dare refuse. Before she knows it she's dealing with 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.

Janice Hopper

Or, How I became a zombie and changed my life for the better!

I've been aware of these books for a while. Zombies and vampires don't really appeal to me, so I hadn't given it serious consideration. But after reading James Nicholl's review, I thought I might give it a try some day. Then it came up on sale at Audible, so I bit. Heh.

I quite enjoyed the book. Angel's slow discovery of who she is and what happened to her to make her who she is carried me right along. She's sassy and foul-mouthed, and has a low opinion of herself. But, while being a zombie has some drawbacks, it also has some benefits. The story of all this unfolds throughout the book. It's a witty book, in a dark way. I laughed out loud numerous times.

It's a light, enjoyable read (or listen). I liked the narrator (Allison McLemore) for the Audible version. I'm not sure her Southern accent is really Louisiana authentic, but it's close enough for me.

Nickie Mohler

Angel is what you would probably call white trash. She dropped out of school, lives in a dump with her drunk dad, can't hold a job, and is into all kinds of drugs. One night, she goes out partying as usual, and her whole life changes. She gets into a terrible car accident, she's a bloody mess, then wakes up in the hospital with not a scratch. Did she hallucinate the whole thing? Read the book and find out!! I really enjoyed this book. I liked the characters. Angel, Marcus, and even Nick the prick. I look forward to the next book.

Christina Baltimore 

I really enjoyed this book. I purchased it as an audiobook over a year ago and just haven't been able to get myself to read it. Oddly, cover is what drew me in and kept me from reading this book.

Once I started reading, I realized that this was going to be one of my favorite series. This was a one day read for me. Angel is a great character. She is the definition of white trash and she knows it. She is also smart. I did figure out where things were going far before the story led to it but I enjoyed working through the story with Angel and realizing her struggles. She grew as a character and prevailed.

The narration in this audio book was superb. There was a fluid transfer from character to character and I was impressed with the inflection of each character. Most often the narration doesn't change a book for me but Allison McLemore is awesome.

I am excited to start book 2.

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After waking up in the ER after a horrible car crash, without a mark on her, Angel soon suspects that life is about to take a rather unexpected turn.

My Life as a White Trash Zombie

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