Spooky Reads Day 17: My Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland

Title: My Life as a White Trash Zombie
Author: Diana Rowland
Page Count: 320
Rating: A
Keywords: Zombies, Career, Fate
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Younger Readers: Some teens and older

Synopsis from Goodreads:

Angel Crawford is a loser.

Living with her alcoholic deadbeat dad in the swamps of southern Louisiana, she's a high school dropout with a pill habit and a criminal record who's been fired from more crap jobs than she can count. Now on probation for a felony, it seems that Angel will never pull herself out of the downward spiral her life has taken.

That is, until the day she wakes up in the ER after overdosing on painkillers. Angel remembers being in an horrible car crash, but she doesn't have a mark on her. To add to the weirdness, she receives an anonymous letter telling her there's a job waiting for her at the parish morgue—and that it's an offer she doesn't dare refuse.

Before she knows it she's dealing with a huge crush on a certain hunky deputy and a brand new addiction: an overpowering craving for brains. Plus, her morgue is filling up with the victims of a serial killer who decapitates his prey—just when she's hungriest!

Angel's going to have to grow up fast if she wants to keep this job and stay in one piece. Because if she doesn't, she's dead meat.

Literally.

My Review:

This book was just downright fun. I listened to the audiobook and the narrator did an amazing job immersing you into the story through all the different accents of the characters. There's a little bit of something for everyone in this one. It clearly fits with the theme of October through the craving for brains but it is also hilarious and incorporates a good mystery in the nature of the Sookie Stackhouse series. Romance is present in crush form but it doesn't go much further than that in this book.

I recommend this for fan's of the show iZombie and anyone who enjoy's morbidly funny stories or forensic based books.