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Book Blitz + Giveaway: Alive? By Melissa Woods
Just in time for Halloween is a fabulous new zombie series! Check out that amazing cover. Let’s dive in and find out more about this brand new release. Title: Alive? Author: Melissa WoodsSeries: The Alive? #1Published by: Clean Teen PublishingPublication date: October 30th 2018Genres: Post-Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Zombies Everyone knows the first rule of the zombie apocalypse: Don’t. Get. Bitten. Too bad Violet has never been great at following the rules. Walking home after a night of partying, she manages to let one of the Dead take a chunk out of her only hours after they’ve begun walking…
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Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Undead Ultra by Camille Picott
Are you ready for some zombie goodness on this fine Tuesday, my bookish friends? I certainly hope so, since that’s exactly what I have to offer today. My ongoing joke is that I’ll only run if there are zombies chasing after me. Well, in the case of Undead Ultra, that’s exactly Kate and Frederico’s motivation. Camille Picott has meshed together the ultramarathon, with the walking dead. Intrigued? Read on. Undead: a reanimated corpse with a craving for human flesh. Ultramarathon: any footrace longer than a traditional marathon (26.2 miles). For ultrarunners Kate and Frederico, a typical Saturday morning is spent…
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Book Review: End Time (Vol. 1) by Daniel Greene
Media Type: Ebook Title: End Time *Series: End Time Vol. 1 Author: Daniel Greene Publisher: Rune Publishing LLC Pages: Kindle; 416 Release Date: March 10, 2016 Source: Author ————————————————- Genre: Thriller HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love fast-paced, zombie filled stories with excellent protagonists. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes The fall of mankind is nigh. And it all began in the dark primal jungles of the Congo River basin. Easily ignored with just a click. When protests turn violent in front of the US Embassy Kinshasa, only the foreign policy…
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Graphic Novel Review: The Extinction Parade (Vol 1)
Title: The Extinction Parade: Vol 1 *Series: The Extinction ParadeAuthor: Max BrooksIllustrator: Raúlo Cáceres Publisher: Avatar PressPages: Paperback; 160Release Date: July 1, 2014Source: NetGalley Max Brooks, the best selling Zombie writer in history, unleashes an all-new horror epic! As humans wage their losing fight versus the hoards of the subdead, a frightening realization sets in with the secretive vampire race: our food is dying off. This is the story of the vampire’s decent into all-out war with the mindless, hungry hordes of the zombie outbreak as humanity tries to survive them all! This collected edition contains the entire first chapter of Extinction Parade (Issues #1-5) and a…
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Book Review: The World Without a Future
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The World Without a Future Author: Nazarea Andrews Publisher: A&A Literary Pages: Kindle Edition, 358 pages Release Date: December 1, 2013 Source: InkSlinger PR ——————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of zombie fiction. Readers who are okay with some blood and gore. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N She was born the day the world ended… Nurrin has lived her entire life with zombies—trapped behind walls meant to keep them safe. She’s mostly happy there. But when a zombie horde breach the…
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Book Review: Domino Falls
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Domino Falls *Series: Devil’s Wake #2 Author: Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due Publisher: Atria Books Pages: Ebook; 384 Release Date: February 19, 2013 Source: NetGalley ——————————————————– Content Screening: Violence; Adult Language HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of zombie stories! Especially those who love new twists in their literature. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N It began on Freak Day—that day no one could explain, when strangers and family members alike went crazy and started biting one another. Some thought the outbreak was caused by a…
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Book Review: This Is Not A Test
Media Type: Print Book Title: This Is Not A Test Author: Courtney Summers Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Pages: Paperback; 323 Release Date: June 19, 2012 Source: Library ———————————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence, Sexual Situations ———————————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a good zombie novel, with a very realistic twist. Add it: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite…
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Book Review: Warm Bodies
Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Warm Bodies Author: Isaac Marion Publisher: Vintage Pages: Hardcover; 256 Release Date: April 26, 2011 ======================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild zombie gore; mild violence HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart A zombie who yearns for a better life ends up falling in love—with a human—in this astonishingly original debut novel. R is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He doesn’t enjoy killing people; he enjoys riding escalators and listening to Frank Sinatra. He is a little different from his fellow Dead.…