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A review by patchy710
Breathers: A Zombie's Lament by S.G. Browne
5.0
Just last week I wrote a review on another zombie novel citing that ultimately they are all the same. Breathers instantly proved me wrong!
The story follows Andy, a recently deceased Breather (Breathers being living humans) turned Zombie. He is no Hollywood Zombie, as he so adamantly pushes, just wanting to be accepted in a society that reviles him. He does what he can to get along, living in his parents basement, attending UA (undead anonymous) meetings, and drowning his sorrows in his father's extensive wine collection.
Throughout the novel Andy becomes increasingly frustrated with having food thrown on him (feeling especially insulted when its a cheap taco bell burrito), frat boys hazing zombies, and being locked up in a cage for simply going on a walk. Zombies have been around for most of modern history, having been sent out on the frontlines in WWII, descriminated by both Whites and Blacks DURING the African American rights movement, etc. Today if they don't behave they are sent off to research facilities where they become a plastic surgeon's midterm.
Soon Andy and his new "family" of fellow zombies get an unknowing taste of "venison". This new meat begins to have positive side effects on their decaying bodies and soon they realize a change in social status is long over due...
Full of humor, love, and gore (like Shaun of the Dead, this novel is called a RomComZom, romantic comedy with zombies), I was blasting through the pages laughing out loud on the subway while rooting for what until now was the enemy!
The story follows Andy, a recently deceased Breather (Breathers being living humans) turned Zombie. He is no Hollywood Zombie, as he so adamantly pushes, just wanting to be accepted in a society that reviles him. He does what he can to get along, living in his parents basement, attending UA (undead anonymous) meetings, and drowning his sorrows in his father's extensive wine collection.
Throughout the novel Andy becomes increasingly frustrated with having food thrown on him (feeling especially insulted when its a cheap taco bell burrito), frat boys hazing zombies, and being locked up in a cage for simply going on a walk. Zombies have been around for most of modern history, having been sent out on the frontlines in WWII, descriminated by both Whites and Blacks DURING the African American rights movement, etc. Today if they don't behave they are sent off to research facilities where they become a plastic surgeon's midterm.
Soon Andy and his new "family" of fellow zombies get an unknowing taste of "venison". This new meat begins to have positive side effects on their decaying bodies and soon they realize a change in social status is long over due...
Full of humor, love, and gore (like Shaun of the Dead, this novel is called a RomComZom, romantic comedy with zombies), I was blasting through the pages laughing out loud on the subway while rooting for what until now was the enemy!