Book: You Are So Undead To Me by Stacey Jay
Release date: March 5, 2009
Publisher: Razorbill
From: Bookstore
Summary:
Fifteen-year-old Megan Berry is a Zombie Settler by birth, which means she’s part-time shrink to a bunch of dead people with a whole lot of issues.
All Megan wants is to be normal and go to homecoming, of course. Unfortunately, it’s a little difficult when your dates keep getting interrupted by a bunch of slobbering Undead.
Things are about to get even more complicated for Megan. Someone in school is using black magic to turn average, angsty Undead into flesh-eating Zombies, and it’s looking like homecoming will turn out to be a very different kind of party the bloody kind.
Megan must stop the Zombie apocalypse descending on Carol, Arkansas. Her life and more importantly, homecoming depends on it.
Megan Berry is a Settler of the Undead or at least she was before and attack changed her life. It’s been five years since that night and her powers seem to be returning. For everybody but Megan, it’s a great thing. Megan just wants to be a normal teenager and find a date for the homecoming dance but angry zombies keep ruining things. And then Ethan shows up to protect her and teach her the Settler ways. Could anything else possibly happen to change her sophomore year from the best ever to her worst nightmare?
Megan was a great heroine. She was strong but she knew when she needed help. She relied on Ethan’s help sometimes but most of the time she was able to handle herself. She didn’t want to be a Settler but when she knew it wasn’t going to change she took charge and learned how to protect herself. She was smart, funny, and very spunky!
The plot was great. I knew someone was trying to kill Megan but I had no clue who it was until the very end of the book. I never would have guessed and it made me keep reading well into the night. I had to finish the book and know how things ended for Megan.
Overall, You Are So Undead To Me is a lighter zombie story. I don’t like lots of blood and gore and Stacey Jay managed to craft a wonderful tale with very little of that. Of course you can’t completely avoid that in a book about the undead but it was definitely a reasonable amount. It was a great story and I can’t wait to start Undead Much?. If you haven’t read this one, check it out!
Writing: 9/10
Characters: 9/10
Plot: 10/10
Ending: 10/10
Originality: 9/10
Overall: 47/50=A-
Cover: 9/10=A-
I loved the book too. I wrote a review too:
http://tuningintoyabooks.blogspot.com/2010/01/you-are-so-undead-to-me-review.html
Aww, a cute zombie book sounds great! LOL, a zombie shrink? What a unique idea! Wonderful review, it sounds like a great book. 😀
Awesome review I LOVED this book! 🙂
Nice review. I agree this was really cute. So was Undead Much?
I just got the second book. I need to get this one. I think they just look fun.
I never thought I’d say this, but it does sound like a fun zombie book! Fantastic review! 🙂