Meredith and Heather Willis, only 10 months apart in age, are as close as two sisters can be, until the death of their father in a car crash that the girls refer to as "The Incident." Unable to move on with any real lust for life, both girls deal the best they can, each living their own private hell. Life is routine, boring, painful, dull...until a new neighbor moves in next door.
Adrien St. Germain has all the young girls' hearts racing at their high school. Everyone, including Heather, is madly in love with him. Everyone except for Meredith, who is completely immune to his charms. Not only is Meredith not drooling over the newcomer, she dislikes him on sight and even feels there is something off about Adrien. Her suspicions mount when she decides to spy on him. Meredith gets a peak into the St. Germain's creepy cellar through an uncovered window and the tiny bit she glimpses sends her imagination into overdrive.
The thing is, it may not be Meredith's imagination at all that's at work here. Could the reanimated dead have moved to suburbia and settled in next door? Are the disappearances in her small town linked in any way to her dreamy new neighbor and his crazy mother who never leaves the house? Meredith thinks yes, but she is the only one. Heather accuses Meredith of trying to sabotage her newfound happiness and her aunt is baking muffins for the interlopers. With no one on her side and only her wits to guide her, Meredith suits up to take on a zombie horde before everything and everyone she holds dear is devoured right before her eyes.
This was kind of a fun read, but Adrien and Marie (mom) have a few too many brain cells for zombies approaching the century mark. I was never sold that zombies could actually intermingle with humans successfully. Of course, with all the paranormal books and movies you have to let your imagination run wild a little but the zombie characters never really...came alive? Were fully fleshed out? Bad, bad puns, but you get the idea. The book had some creepy moments and is a page-turner though!
Meredith Willis is suspicious of Adrien, the new guy next
door. When she dares to sneak a look into the windows of
his house, she sees something in the cellar that makes her
believe that Adrien might be more than just a creepβhe may
be an actual monster.
But her sister, Heather, doesnβt share Meredithβs
repulsion. Heather believes Adrien is the only guy who
really understands her. In fact, she may be falling in love
with him. When Adrien and Heather are cast as the leads in
the school production of Romeo and Juliet, to Heather, it
feels like fate. To Meredith, it feels like a bad omen. But
if she tries to tear the couple apart, she could end up in
the last place sheβd ever want to be: the cellar. Can
Meredith convince her sister that sheβs dating the living
dead before itβs too late for both of them?
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