My Life as a White Trash Zombie

I'm giving this a four not because it is a literary classic or a book that will change your life. However; it is quite simply delicious. I snurled my nose more than once when she graphically describes her new found favorite brain treats and how to enjoy them - straight up, mixed with other delicious foods that when combined with brains gives you an odd sense of ewww...that sounds yummy (not the brains part), and hey who wouldn't love a brain smoothie. Of course there are also the frozen dinners which when eaten without being heated give you “brain freeze”. I apologize but that totally cracks me up.

If you don't like zombies then this a great introductions to the genre that stands on its own merits.

Pure fun, and the cover art kicks arse!

I'm thinking more of a 3.5 kind of rating. Angel, a high school drop out, addictive to pills, and lives with her drunk father, wakes up in the hospital thinking she has been in a serious accident but the medical staff tells her she was brought in from an apparent overdose. Fussy memories things only get stranger when she is released with a note and “bottled shakes”. Set up with a job she now must drive around dead bodies and assisting in autopsies. Things that use to disgust Angel out, like the site of blood, don't anymore. In fact they make her mouth water. So as Angel tries to come to terms with her undead life while still dealing with her dead beat dad and friends and an increased number of decapitated bodies keep turning up.
I liked Angel's voice. She was funny in a WTF is going on but hey still going to ride this rollercoaster sort of way. At times the corny was a bit too much, and I was a little shocked about how well she dealt with certain situation but it wasn't enough to pull me out of the story. Angel's interaction with other characters came across as authentic relationships. The author has a way of taking a gory topic and making it humorous and amusing.
The idea and concept of the book was great but somewhere the story line or pacing seemed to slow down that made the book drag. The ending was great. Made up for the sluggish parts and rapped up the mystery unfolding in the book.

Pretty good. I didn't see the ending coming. But I'm glad it worked out the way it did.