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 The
last thing zombie socialite Amanda Feral wants to do is
visit her dying mother, unless it's to "help" nature take
it's course. Unfortunately for her, Gil offends one of his
new million dollar vamping clients and picks up a retinue of
hitmen determined to kill him. When Amanda and Wendy are
turned away from a swanky night club opening as a result of
Gil's misfortune, a road trip on short notice starts looking
like a mighty fine idea.
Traveling across
three states in a filthy, roach-infested hulk posing as a
Winnebago, with no extra clothes and only Wal- Mart to
remedy that is not what Amanda had in mind though. Add in a
mostly accurate psychic, Fishhook, a small horde of neo-Nazi
skinhead mistakes, a blonde Korean zombie hunter, an ex-cop
werewolf stalker and a freaky, Stepford family and you have
the road trip from hell!
Amanda is back!
And snarkier than ever, thank goodness. (Or more accurately,
thank Mark Henry's imagination.)
Road Trip of the
Living Dead will definitely have you laughing out loud! I
think it is even funnier than Happy Hour of the Damned, if
that is possible. Mark has definitely done it again,
footnotes and all! It's one of those books that takes
Murphy's Law seriously...if anything can go wrong, it
definitely does, much to Amanda's disgust. What could be
worse than having to shop at Wal-mart? Seriously?
I really enjoyed
seeing Amanda out of her element. She is a little tougher, a
little kinder and a whole lot more gutsy than I first
thought. She's mellowed enough to take on a couple of
"strays" but she's not so soft she'd miss commenting when
Wendy wears something that makes her look fat.
Favorite quote,
well...second favorite quote:
A blood curdling
scream split the night into before and after, * a scream
that blended the feminine quality of a horror movie starlet
with all the masculine panic of a proctology patient.
* As far as
screams go, blood curdling is the way to go. Don't settle,
victims.*
This is one of
those books I've been waiting all year for, very impatiently
I might add, and it was absolutely worth it. Road Trip of
the Living Dead is action packed, disturbing, disgusting and
hilarious - not exactly for the faint of heart or tender
stomach, but it is an awesomely funny read! I highly
recommend it.
Book three, Battle of the Network
Zombies, is scheduled for release in March, 2010. |
