A review by mxsallybend
Zombielicious by Timothy McGivney

5.0

What I loved most about this was the intimacy of it. By telling the story through the eyes of the 5 main characters, our view of the catastrophe is limited to personal experience. There are no highlight reels of zombie attacks across the world, no montages of military or political agendas, and no scenes of desperate scientists trying to find a cure. In fact, we never find out how the zombie plague started, why it mutated, or what the end result will be. When you’re 5 survivors thrown together by circumstance, the struggle to survive is far more important that indulging in philosophical musings on the big picture. They characters are definitely an odd bunch, but it's their interactions that carry the story along.

At its heart, this is a blood-and-guts horror story that never shies away from the gore. It’s creepy and scary, with action scenes that are frantic and intense, and characters who are delightfully aware of their own horror movie mistakes. Well-paced, this is also a story with moments of friendship and quiet reflection . . . along with some graphic sex scenes that likely wouldn’t survive the transition to film, but which are never gratuitous, and really do serve to advance the plot and develop the characters.

If you’re looking for a good, action-packed zombie story with characters who deliberately avoid the genre stereotypes, then I can’t recommend this enough. Forget the mash-ups and parodies, and indulge yourself in some good, old-fashioned zombie horror. I had an absolute blast reading it, and I am definitely looking forward to more.

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