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Happy Hour of the Damned by Mark Henry

Amanda Feral is shallow, stone-cold bitch. Unless she’s got a few drinks in her–then she’s just a shallow bitch. I’d never hang out with her but then I’m sure she’d never hang out with me either. But there’s one thing that does make her interesting. Amanda Feral is a zombie.

Yep, a shallow, bitchy clothes-horse of a zombie.

I’ve never read a book where the protagonist is a zombie. How could you possibly have a zombie protagonist when all zombies do are shamble around and munch on humans, nary a thought process to be seen? So I know you’re wondering the same thing I was: How in the world can she be a zombie and not only string enough words together coherently to be bitchy but coordinated enough to dress herself? But it turns out there are TWO types of zombies! Those who are made and those classified as mistakes. The made zombies can hide just like other supernatural creatures, hence our lack of knowledge of them. All we ever see are the mistakes–the shambling cannibals of countless movies that we know and love. (Okay, maybe not everyone loves zombies, but I find people who don’t to be highly suspect.) Read more

Jennifer

Jennifer works as a production editor for a major publishing company in NYC but will not review any books put out by the company (under any imprint) on this site since that can be considered a conflict of interest. Areas of interest include Robin Hood, pirates, zombies (and horror in general), Beowulf (and other early English literature, though Beowulf has a soft spot in her heart), medieval history, Celtic history and literature, history of diseases, and some odd subjects like bog bodies. She lives in New Jersey with a husband and a cat. You can find her on LibraryThing, Twitter, and Goodreads.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith and Jane Austen. © 2010 Quirk Classics. ISBN 9781594744549. Paperback. Classics/Horror. 288 pages. $12.95 US. [ Pre-order ] Source: copy from publisher

Ah, April in Meryton. The flowers are blooming, the sun is shining, the temperature is rising … and so is the undead body count. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls tells us the origin of how the Bennett girls of Longbourn became masters of the art of zombie-killing seen in the first book.

As the novel dawns, we are introduced to the first ‘dreadful’. Mr. Bennett quickly takes the reign of this tense situation and instructs Elizabeth and Mary on dealing with the ‘unmentionable’—and with that they witness their first killing. From here on out, the girls begin intense training in the Shaolin tradition of martial arts, first from their father and then from Master Hawksworth. From here …

“We watch Elizabeth Bennet evolve from a naïve young teenager into a savage slayer of the undead. We laugh as she begins her first clumsy training with nunchucks and katana swords and cry when her first blush with romance goes tragically awry.” (back cover) Read more

Teresa

Teresa (nom de plume: Torrance Sené) is a self-proclaimed geek, a Janeite, a lover of werewolves and bad-ass angels, an aspiring novelist and an avid book reader who freelances as a web designer. You can follow her on Twitter at @eireannoir.

Guest Vlog: Mark Henry

Joining us today on the release of his latest book, Battle of the Network Zombies, horror/comedy (horremdy? comorror? lol) author Mark Henry (@mark_henry) vlogs about the Save Amanda Feral campaign, what makes his book series unique, what he’s planning for books 4 and 5, his new release coming out today and more! Check it out below.

If you have any questions/comments for Mark, feel free to leave them in the comments section below. He’ll be stopping by at various times of the day to answer them, but before you do, go buy Battle of the Network Zombies (and/or the new mass market paperback edition of Happy Hour of the Damned) and help SAVE AMANDA FERAL. Thanks so much for being here Mark! And to you the viewers: enjoy yourselves! Read more