Book Review: Road Trip of the Living Dead by Mark Henry
Road Trip of the Living Dead by Mark Henry. © 2009 Kensington Books. ISBN 9780758225245. Trade Paperback. Horror/Zombies. 288 pages. $15.00 US. Source: review copy from author (pdf)
Funny, gory, as full of snarky footnotes as the previous book ( Happy Hour of the Damned ), it’s a road trip to the Midwest that only Amanda Feral could experience.
Okay, road trips can be a bit difficult for vampires, but Gil is very motivated to get out of town, as his last client didn’t have such a great conversion experience (what with being peed on by a ghost and all).
And when Amanda and Wendy find out they’re crossed off the guest list for the opening of a new club and Gil is nearly eaten by werewolves, what better to do than to drive to South Dakota to see Amanda’s dying mother. Who Amanda hates. A lot.
Along the way they run into a creepy family traveling in a trailer; two creepy (but less creepy) boys who could be a couple cultists traveling the Midwest, a (hot) werewolf cop, and two girls, one of whom turns out to be . . . you’re gonna have to read it to find *that* out!
Amanda is still shallow but she seems to be gaining in the empathy department–as much as a zombie can have empathy anyway. If I wasn’t afraid that she’d a) eat me or b) make fun of my clothing, I think I might even hang out with her. If she’d allow me to.
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