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Never Trust a Zombie
Eric Sterling's family has just moved. Again. He is so sick of moving and can't wait to finish the last five months of senior year in high school so he can set out on his own and settle down. Eric has never been a big fan of transition.
Little does he know the move to Cranston, TX will bring about a bigger transition than he could ever have imagined.
Scientists researching Alzheimer's treatments are accidentally exposed to a virus that takes control of a body's nervous system. When the brain reanimates it operates almost exactly like it did before the person died. Almost.
Eric, who just wanted to finish high school and get on with his life, finds himself facing a life of death instead. Will he survive high school? Will he survive Cranston?
Never Trust a Zombie attempts to do for zombies what Twilight did for vampires, that is, make them lovable. Who says zombies have to be portrayed as brain eating, slow moving corpses? Not me.
With neuroscience fiction and humor throughout, Never Trust a Zombie is an easy and fun read, offering a different perspective on the zombie genre.
Little does he know the move to Cranston, TX will bring about a bigger transition than he could ever have imagined.
Scientists researching Alzheimer's treatments are accidentally exposed to a virus that takes control of a body's nervous system. When the brain reanimates it operates almost exactly like it did before the person died. Almost.
Eric, who just wanted to finish high school and get on with his life, finds himself facing a life of death instead. Will he survive high school? Will he survive Cranston?
Never Trust a Zombie attempts to do for zombies what Twilight did for vampires, that is, make them lovable. Who says zombies have to be portrayed as brain eating, slow moving corpses? Not me.
With neuroscience fiction and humor throughout, Never Trust a Zombie is an easy and fun read, offering a different perspective on the zombie genre.
271 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 15, 2013
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Paul Brodie
10 books2 followersI am a writer and a musician. My education is in psychology with emphasis in industrial/organizational psychology. My work experience has been primarily with electronic document management. Academically and intellectually I am interested in criminology and sociology. I am married to my favorite person in the world and we have one daughter.
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March 6, 2020
A zombie coming of age tale
This was my first zombie book, can you believe it? It was a sweet book next with just the right amount of puppy love, teenage angst, conspiracy, mystery, violence, and intrigue. The book starts off with Eric moving to a small town in Texas. Soon he meets a pale, mysterious girl. And from then on nothing is as it seems.
I loved the humor and the references to 90s culture. I also love the references to email and pop punk bands. It is as if this book was written just for me. So many scenes and references spoke to me. If you are a 90s kid, a lover of the kind of music they just don't make anymore, or a fan zombie mystery and suspense, check out this book!
I hear that Brodi has a sequel in the works. I'm interested to know where the next phase of the story goes.
Well done!
This was my first zombie book, can you believe it? It was a sweet book next with just the right amount of puppy love, teenage angst, conspiracy, mystery, violence, and intrigue. The book starts off with Eric moving to a small town in Texas. Soon he meets a pale, mysterious girl. And from then on nothing is as it seems.
I loved the humor and the references to 90s culture. I also love the references to email and pop punk bands. It is as if this book was written just for me. So many scenes and references spoke to me. If you are a 90s kid, a lover of the kind of music they just don't make anymore, or a fan zombie mystery and suspense, check out this book!
I hear that Brodi has a sequel in the works. I'm interested to know where the next phase of the story goes.
Well done!
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March 4, 2015I'm marking this as "done" without leaving a rating, because I think in this case, it's unfair to give a star rating for a book I didn't enjoy simply because it was too YA for me, and I don't particularly like that genre.
The writing is nicely done. The story as well - a high schooler moves to BFE, Texas, with his family in the middle of his senior year. His dad's job has kept the family moving and changing schools constantly. As the youth finds his place with the teeny town of Cranston and its high school population of, say 15 kids, he meets odd-ball student Rachel, who doesn't eat, doesn't attend school activities, doesn't go out at night. She's weird, I suppose, and doesn't fit in. Doesn't help that her family runs the local slaughterhouse one town over and lives in the former funeral home. All of these are good things (for a story, I mean).
But I found myself bored to tears with the events of the kids life. Going to class, doing homework, talking to teachers, deciding whether to eat lunch in the school cafeteria or not. I suppose these are monumentally interesting activities for some, but not for me.
All in all, a good read. Just not my taste.
The writing is nicely done. The story as well - a high schooler moves to BFE, Texas, with his family in the middle of his senior year. His dad's job has kept the family moving and changing schools constantly. As the youth finds his place with the teeny town of Cranston and its high school population of, say 15 kids, he meets odd-ball student Rachel, who doesn't eat, doesn't attend school activities, doesn't go out at night. She's weird, I suppose, and doesn't fit in. Doesn't help that her family runs the local slaughterhouse one town over and lives in the former funeral home. All of these are good things (for a story, I mean).
But I found myself bored to tears with the events of the kids life. Going to class, doing homework, talking to teachers, deciding whether to eat lunch in the school cafeteria or not. I suppose these are monumentally interesting activities for some, but not for me.
All in all, a good read. Just not my taste.
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