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My Zombie Valentine was a paranormal romance anthology dealing some awesome authors. Angie Fox starts out the first story, and I have to say it's one of my favorites. The heroine is a voodoo love practitioner who ends up casting a love spell that brings her Mr. Right... Mr. Undead that is.

Katie MacAlister's was my least favorite it dealt with her Dark Ones. Personally I felt as if Sebastian deserved his own novel. Especially with the pain that the Betrayer brought upon him. I also though it was unfair to the readers and the heroine, Ysabelle, that her story was so short. I mean we find out in two sentences that she's an alchemist and her dad was pretty big. They should have gotten their own novel.

The third by Marianne Mancusi was also hilarious involving make up, real zombies, a low budget movie, and an actor that the heroine has been crushing on since she was 12. Really cute and fast paced.

The fourth was by Lisa Cach and had a really interesting premise. A plastic surgeon would inject, for free, Phi-Tox. Pretty soon LA women everywhere (think skinny plastic Barbie dolls with implants) are running amok craving sugar and fat. The hero is also very cute and a surfer dude.

I bought this on my Kindle and loved it. It was one of the better anthologies I have read. It was light hearted, paranormal, with each author giving her own twist to `Zombies'.


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My Zombie Valentine Katie MacAlister Angie Fox Marianne Mancusi Lisa Cach 9780843963601 Books Reviews

How did we end up here?

Mari sends me pretty much everything she writes so it's no surprise that Zombiewood Confidential ended up in my hands. That is the only story I read out of this anthology so it'll be the only one I review. Originally published with Dorchester a handful of moons ago Zombiewood Confidential was re-released in My Zombie Valentine by a publisher that wouldn't bone over its authors. And since I love pretty much everything Mari writes here we are.

Okay, book. You've got 50 pages. Go!

It's a novella. There are barely more than 50 pages to the story itself.

Outside of that it came with a classic Mari voice that's spunky and fun and doesn't take itself too seriously. There's a chick with wobbly knees that isn't very sure about herself and the hot dude action hero that she's been lusting after. It's not YA so it's pretty neat to see Mari's writing with a more adult perspective and doesn't have to concern itself with teen angst. It has enough zombies here to manage that!

The story opens from the perspective of a zombie movie extra that's getting a little too noshy with his teeth so the zombie element is immediate and slightly B horror in a campy, fun sort of way. She had me at braaaaaaaaaains.

What worked . . .

Between the voice and the kitsch and the action and the heat and Hollywood there isn't much left to not like. Mari pokes fun at celebrities, wannabes, bad perfume, the zombie genre, Hollywood as a whole, everything but it's done in such a way that it preserves the zombie atmosphere. The zombies are still zombies, with a bit of an interesting twist at the end, and then kooky things happen around them. The humor is great and is persistent from beginning to end without being over the top of dropping off into a lull for even a page. Mari really knows how to write this slightly sarcastic humor and makes it look effortless. I'm kind of jealous.

What didn't work . . .

Not much. Maybe it was too short? The whole romance aspect was a bit rushed but that may have been a product of the novella more than anything although I did feel the guy's attachment to the female protag (I'm completely blanking on names at the moment) was incredibly sudden and kind of frightening but I think it played into the atmosphere better than if it were anything more serious. All the pieces fit and I didn't find myself scoffing at any of it, mainly because the zombies were rather awesome and took up most of the story space anyway.

And in the end . . .

A great addition to the zombie genre. Mari's token snark is front and center here and it blends well with the stage she's set. She keeps zombies true to form and lets the antics fly around her characters. They get battered and beaten but the Hollywood ending doesn't escape this story and I'm okay with that. All things considered the characters deserve it. Covered in zombie body parts but, you know, beggars can't be choosers.
My Zombie Valentine is a book of 4 stories by 4 different authors. Each one is fun and unique in its own way. The zombies in this book are definitely not your stereotypical idea of zombies. They are all just…different.

I really liked the non-traditional take on zombies that each of these stories uses. It was something I had not experienced before and enjoyed it very much. Each of these authors has a great way of writing their stories that make them seem so relatable.

I don’t think I’ve ever read a book with 4 stories by 4 authors where I liked them all the same. I really liked every one of them. There is usually one in the bunch that just isn’t up to the same quality or interest level as the others, but I didn’t find that in this book. Each story is perfectly paced and gets right down to business.

I recommend this book to anyone looking for non-traditional zombie stories that aren’t gory and has mild romance
I enjoyed the short stories in this book. It helps to see if I like the way the authors write to see if I want to purchase their other books. Katie MacAlister has better books out there than this story, though.
I like Katie Macalister's writing style.
Not too happy with the story.
My Zombie Valentine was a paranormal romance anthology dealing some awesome authors. Angie Fox starts out the first story, and I have to say it's one of my favorites. The heroine is a voodoo love practitioner who ends up casting a love spell that brings her Mr. Right... Mr. Undead that is.

Katie MacAlister's was my least favorite it dealt with her Dark Ones. Personally I felt as if Sebastian deserved his own novel. Especially with the pain that the Betrayer brought upon him. I also though it was unfair to the readers and the heroine, Ysabelle, that her story was so short. I mean we find out in two sentences that she's an alchemist and her dad was pretty big. They should have gotten their own novel.

The third by Marianne Mancusi was also hilarious involving make up, real zombies, a low budget movie, and an actor that the heroine has been crushing on since she was 12. Really cute and fast paced.

The fourth was by Lisa Cach and had a really interesting premise. A plastic surgeon would inject, for free, Phi-Tox. Pretty soon LA women everywhere (think skinny plastic Barbie dolls with implants) are running amok craving sugar and fat. The hero is also very cute and a surfer dude.

I bought this on my and loved it. It was one of the better anthologies I have read. It was light hearted, paranormal, with each author giving her own twist to `Zombies'.