"The Loving Dead," by Amelia Beamer is certain a very hip zombie book with its own special freak on. Certainly not for everyone, it takes back the sex reserved usually for vampires and gives it to zombies. Our heroes work all day at Trader Joe's and usually spend the nights at some party or tryst. Well, one day suddenly zombie-ism as a venereal disease enter their lives. Can they find safety or will they succumb to the allure of sex zombies?
Certainly it is a work that doesn't shy away from graphic depictions of sex and violence sometimes intertwined. I can't decide if the work suffers or is helped by the characters hyper awareness of zombie mythology. Sometimes it seems just a tad too arch, hip and ironic. On the other hand it is fun when they find out these zombies are different from the normal template. For example, the are cowed by the whips. So I guess the kinky have a good chance of inheriting the earth.
The characters are well drawn, but is a well drawn shallow character something I want to read? Well I did read the book but it is certainly not going in my top shelf. If you like zombies, fine. If you like erotic fiction, it will certainly be a different read from most. Overall, it gains points in originality, but loses points cause anyone working at Trader Joe's doesn't really interest me.
http://www.amazon.com/Loving-Dead-Amelia-Beamer/dp/1597801941
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