My Life as a White Trash Zombie

This book was just okay. The cover art is literally the best part. Seriously, 5 stars to the artist. I do not recommend the audiobook at all - the sad attempt at an Asian accent is horrendous.

The mystery is extremely weak, the entire plot was predictable, the confrontation with the murderer is laughable (the dialogue made me roll my eyes so hard), and the end romance was so cliché I can't believe more people don't find it lazy. The entire end of the book felt lazy to me. It wrapped everything up in a nice little package within maybe, I don't know, 5 pages or so. The pacing of it was just way off.

It's basically Sookie Stackhouse with zombies, but with fewer distinct characters and a less intelligent main character. Seriously, down to the best friend of someone the main character cares about being the bad guy.

I loved how a secondary female character talked to Angel about rape, both making sure Angel didn't blame herself and talking about how there are different ways to be violated. I thought it was extremely well done and made me feel all sorts of emotional.

If you like chick lit or the Sookie Stackhouse series, you'll probably like this enough. I didn't hate it by any means. It's just okay which is what the Goodreads rating says 2 stars is supposed to mean, so that's what I'm going with. Don't @ me.

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.