Seattle. One minute you’re drinking a vanilla breve, the next, some creepy old dude is breathing on you, turning you into a zombie. And that’s just for starters.

Now, the recently deceased Amanda Feral is trying to make her way through Seattle’s undead scene with style (mortuary-grade makeup, six-inch stilettos, Balenciaga handbag on sale) while satisfying her craving for human flesh [Don’t judge. And no, not like chicken.) and decent vodkatinis.

Making her way through a dangerous world of cloud-doped bloodsuckers, reapers,horny and horned devils, werewolves, celebrities, and PR-obsessed shapeshiftersnot to mention an extremely hot bartender named Ricardo-isn’t easy.

 

And the minute one of Amanda’s undead friends disappears after texting the word, “help” (The undead-so dramatic!) she knows the afterlife is about to get really ugly. Something sinister is at hand. Someone or something is hell bent on turning Seattle’s undead underworld into a place of true terror. And this time, Amanda may meet a fate a lot worse than death…

If you haven’t read Mark Henry’s Amanda Feral series, you are seriously missing out. In one of the most hilarious series I have read to date, we meet Amanda who is a recently turned Zombie. Some funky old man breathed on her which turned her into a flesh craver. From a first person perspective, we follow Amanda as she breaks into the morgue to get make-up (who says a zombie can’t be glam) and while she tries to find a friend who disappears after texting the word “Help” to Amanda’s cell.

The cast of characters, utterly hilarious. Gil, the gay Vampire to Wendy the zombie skank. As are the footnotes, yes I totally said footnotes. Recipes for Flirtini’s to Amanda inner monolouge. Amanda is a bitch and she admits it, in many a footnote.

While there’s plenty of vampires & were books out there, zombies are often over-looked. After reading Happy Hour of the Damned, I haven’t the slightest idea why. Mark’s writing is pee your pants funny, snot bubbles and all. Be prepared to be laughing one minute and totally grossed out the next! 

If you like your humor dark and extreme, with exploding bowels to munching on ears like potato chips, this is totally the book for you. Nevermind, Starbucks is centre in a plot to take over the world. Which I myself say, constantly anyways. Though a little gross at times (after all even the glamest of zombies can’t be hot all the time), Happy Hour of the Damned is a zombie version of Sex & The City, only funnier and better written.

Rating 4.5/5

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