Review: Zombielicious by Timothy McGivney

Zombielicious is equal parts sex and zombie apocalypse, in a fast-paced, over-the-top tale of finding love in the middle of disaster. Twins Molly (a spoiled brat whose greatest aspiration is to win a singing contest and have people do what she wants) and Walt (a perfectionist deeply ashamed of his sexuality who tries to make up for it by pleasing the people around him) meet up with Jill (an ex-porn star turned nurse who can’t even use scientific terms for body parts), Ace (the security guard who thinks Jill owes him sex because he’s a fan) and Joey (a teen who is selling his body to science to get the money to run away from his hateful parents) and have to support each other through the zombie uprising.

For zombie apocalypse fans, Zombielicious might be a good choice; this book has lots of fight scenes, some hot smut scenes, and lots of gore. But for those who want a little more, this may be unsatisfying. The characters are unsympathetic; they’re either completely deplorable people or super-sensitive damsels in distress, and while there’s a lot of action, there’s nothing original about the plot, which consists mainly of the characters surviving all the stuff thrown at them. Traditional zombie fans will no doubt find Zombielicious exciting and fun, but, outside of a romantic male/male relationship, it’s not a whole lot different from other books out there. Public collections will find other books better suited to diversity of theme.

Contains: Violence, gore, very crude language, explicit sex (hetero and homosexual), rape

Reviewed for MonsterLibrarian.com