How the White Trash Zombie Got Her Groove Back

May 26, 2014
Introspective questions of loyalty and betrayal underlay spouting gore, zombie parasites, and brain-munching in the solid fourth installment of Rowland’s urban fantasy series (after White Trash Zombie Apocalypse). The unlife has been good to Angel Crawford, who’s gone from being a living high school drop-out and junkie to a GED-earning zombie and morgue
assistant. Then a “parasite-balancing procedure” for Philip, her “zombie-baby,” goes wrong, and Pietro Ivanov, the enigmatic leader of the Mafia-like collective called the Tribe, is kidnapped. Loyalties are tested and alliances strained as Angel and company flee from assassins toward a dark, unavoidable truth that threatens to shatter Angel’s precarious trust issues and the Tribe’s zombie network. This spiraling roller coaster is as full of heart as blood (and brains and guts), exploring themes of love, sacrifice, guilt, and vengeance amid splattery action. This orgy of super science, roadhouse rumbles, and slapstick
supernaturalism should satisfy readers searching for blood-soaked fun.

June 15, 2014

Angel Crawford returns in another winning entry in this series (after 2013's White Trash Zombie Apocalypse) that focuses on a group of Louisiana zombies battling an evil corporation intent on exploiting their kind. As usual, Angel struggles with her self-confidence and the legacy of her junkie past, trying to prove her usefulness to her zombie mentors. But her flaws only make her a stronger person, and when the head of the zombie group is kidnapped, Angel helps take the fight to the bad guys.

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