You Are So Undead to Me by Stacey Jay

[description from B&N]

Q: HOW MANY ZOMBIES DOES IT TAKE TO RUIN A SOCIAL LIFE?

A: NOT MANY.

Megan Berry is a Zombie Settler by birth, which means she's part-time shrink to a whole bunch of semi-dead people with killer issues. All Megan really wants is to go to homecoming, but when you're trailed by a bunch of slobbering corpses whenever you leave the house, it's kinda hard to score a date. Let's just say Megan's love life could use some major resuscitation.

Megan's convinced her life can't get any worse - until someone in school starts using black magic to turn average, angsty Undead into scary, hardcore flesh-eating Zombies. Now it's up to Megan to stop the Zombie apocalypse. Her life - and more importantly, the homecoming dance - depends on it.

Review:

It's no secret that I am on Team Zombie. I find unicorns icky (Except I really do want to read Rampant. Oh, and a note to those who have read/have Rampant: I HATE YOU.) and find zombies much better. Because I find zombies much better, I kind of had high expectations for this book. I want my zombie books to be good and not give zombies a bad name. Because if zombie books give zombies a bad name, those people on Team Unicorn would have something to support their argument that unicorns are better. And I think this book did a pretty good job of not giving zombies a bad name.

I really liked the whole concept of Settlers. Because Settlers aren't explained in the summary, you all get a explanation from me (sorry): Angry zombies with "unfinished business" on Earth climb out of their graves. These zombies go to the nearest Settler. Settler writes down their problems and says they will fix them. Zombie walks back to the grave and goes underground forevermore. As far as I'm concerned, this is a way to prevent the zombie apocalypse. Make the zombies happy, and the zombies don't eat us. Sounds good to me.

I did not, however, really like Megan. She's kind of annoying, but kind of awesome for going all ninja on those zombies. She's always talking about how hot she thinks Ethan is. ("He's like an Abercrombie model!" She said something like that once. I would just like to say that I think that simile should be eliminated from all books.) But after she goes on one of her "Ethan is hot why won't he take me to homecoming?" rants, there was usually a zombie fight scene or something unrelated to homecoming and Ethan. These fight scenes were what made me not want to throw the book at a wall.

But then Megan would say the words "pom squad" instead of cheerleading squad and I would want to throw the book at a wall again. I hatehatehate that term. Almost as much as I hate it when people describe guys as Abercrombie models.

Despite my extreme annoyance with the shallow main character, I will be reading the sequel when it comes out because 1) it will have more zombies and 2) I really liked the twist at the end of the story. I think the twist was kind of easy to figure out earlier on but not so obvious that there wouldn't be a little surprise.

8/10

Released January 22.