Name: Breathers
ISBN: 9780767930611

Scott G. Browne

Andy Warner, a recently deceased everyman and newly minted zombie resented by his parents, abandoned by his friends, and reviled by society, is having trouble adjusting to his new existance, until he meets Rita, an impossibly sexy recent suicide who teaches him the joys of human flesh. Original.

A Zombie's Lament

Breathers

Kali Olson

** spoiler alert **
           I am new to zombie books, having found my way to Breathers via Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and then Word War Z. But I don't think I'm cut out for the sub-genre of zombie books where, like in Breathers, the zombies are the main characters. It's an interesting twist, certainly, but when they start eating humans, and weighing the pros and cons and moral dilemmas of eating humans, it gets just a little too gross for me (and zombie books are already too gorey for me to read during mealtimes or before bedtime). I think I definitely prefer my zombies to be mindless monsters, and my main characters to be the humans who are fighting for survival as they rid the world of the zombie threat. That said, I really wanted the zombie characters in Breathers to make it, to win their civil rights struggle and get equal rights with humans. The book was funny and clever and strange and gross and creative--I just can't hack it as a reader of books where sentient zombies eat their parents, that's all.

Breathers A Zombie's Lament

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