Angel Crawford is happy in her new life. She and her dad are
getting to know each other again, she (mostly) loves her job
at the coroner's office and she is even dating a fairly
normal guy; well, normal for a zombie.
Then things go a little pear-shaped. She discovers a
requirement for her parole is getting her G.E.D. and she
doesn't have much time left to accomplish it. Then one of
the bodies she gathers has no scent of brains to her,
despite the open skull fracture. When she gets held at
gunpoint by a masked man with an interest in that same body,
life gets weird. Discovering hints of a zombie mafia and
signs that Ed the zombie hunter is still hanging around make
life a bit too interesting.
I loved Diana Rowland's first book in this series, My
Life as a White Trash Zombie, and have been anticipating
EVEN WHITE TRASH ZOMBIES GET THE BLUES for months. I was a
bit fearful of a let down as sometimes happens with second
books but to my relief book two is at least as wonderful,
and quite possibly even a smidge better than book one! At
the core these are mystery stories but Angel's uncertain
steps on her new forcibly-sober path (the zombie virus does
not allow her to ingest harmful substances) are what give
the books depth. It's not a doom-and-gloom, there-but-for-
the-grace-of-God kind of series, though. Rowland writes with
a great balance of humor and darker emotions and always
keeps the action moving in the right direction. The mystery
is superbly done but her handling of Angel's growth as a
human being (well, 'humanish' these days) is what makes the
books glow for me. I highly recommend the series to anyone
who isn't too squeamish for frank discussion of brain as a
comestible.
Angel Crawford is finally starting to get used to life as a
brain-eating zombie, but her problems are far from over. Her
felony record is coming back to haunt her, more zombie
hunters are popping up, and she’s beginning to wonder if her
hunky cop-boyfriend is involved with the zombie mafia. Yeah,
that’s right—the zombie mafia.
Throw in a secret lab and a lot of conspiracy, and Angel’s
going to need all of her brainpower—and maybe a brain
smoothie as well—in order to get through it without falling
apart.
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