Zombie Queen of Newbury High by Amanda Ashby

[description from Amazon]

Quiet, unpopular, non-cheerleading Mia is blissfully happy. She is dating super hot football god Rob, and he actually likes her and asked her to prom! Enter Samantha—cheerleading goddess and miss popularity— who starts making a move for Rob. With prom in a few days, Mia needs to act fast. So she turns to her best friend, Candice, and decides to do a love spell on Rob. Unfortunately, she ends up inflicting a zombie virus onto her whole class, making herself their leader! At first she is flattered that everyone is treating her like a queen. But then zombie hunter hottie Chase explains they are actually fattening her up, because in a few days, Mia will be the first course in their new diet. She’s sure she and Chase can figure something out, but she suggests that no one wear white to prom, because things could get very messy.

Review:

I love zombies. I love books. Therefore, when an opportunity to read a zombie book appears, I immediately jump at the chance. I always have high expectations for zombie books, and I'm happy to report that this zombie book definitely met my expectations.

This book was too funny. The premise itself is funny (Although turning people into zombies is no laughing matter. Right, Sharon?) so obviously you'd expect the book to be funny. The whole "we must kill the zombies before they eat us" thing wasn't too dark or anything, but it was serious, and the book provided much comic relief. Mia's hypochondriac friend Candice was especially good at providing comic relief, with all her worries about what disease she had that week.

I loved pretty much everything about Mia. She was delightfully flawed and realistic. Her Buffy obsession, fear of heights, annoyance toward her sister, and her actual need for help to fight the zombies made her especially relate-able.

Also, I liked all the broken cliches in this book. I loved how Mia wasn't popular, but was still dating Super Popular Boy. I also liked how the zombies didn't just automatically go around eating people, but rather, they had to go through stages before they became flesh eating beasts.

I don't really have much else to say about this one, except that I really really liked it and high recommend it, especially if you want to read something lighter.

8/10