• Paperback: 288 pages
• List Price: $15.00 US/$17.95 CDN
• Publisher:Kensington; Original edition (February 23, 2010 US/ March 2, 2010 CAN)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0758225261
• ISBN-13: 978-0758225269

In Seattle’s undead circles, Amanda Feral is one of the beautiful zombies. Of course, when you’re socializing with werewolves, devils, and rampaging yetis, there’s not that much competition. Still, Amanda has a stylish rep to maintain, which is getting tricky now that her tanking ad agency is obliterating her finances. The fastest way to make some cash: appear on a new reality show, American Minions, hosted by lecherous wood nymph Johnny Birch. Classy? Maybe not, but a girl’s gotta eat.

With zombie gal pal Wendy posing as her bitchy agent, Amanda settles in to “Minions Mansion,” crowded with 24-7 video cameras and undead fame whores. When Johnny is found incinerated in a locked room, Amanda decides to channel her inner Miss Marple (minus the fugly cardigans) and find out who’s responsible. Was it Hairy Sue, the white trash stripper yeti? Tanesha, the glamorous trannie werewolf? Angie, the Filipino vampire with a detachable head? Unveiling the culprit in a heart-stopping finale won’t just save the show from cancellation, it might just keep Amanda alive—or as close as a ghoul can get…

First, I  must lay out some cautions:

1. If this is your first Amanda Feral book, kindly stop right here. Go back & pick up Happy Hour of the Damned which is coming out February 2nd in mass market paperback for those of you who are all anti-trade paperback.
2. If, after reading the back blurb for Happy Hour of the Damned & you’ve still not clued in that Amanda is a Zombie which requires her jaw to unhinge whilst she eats a tasty snack of rapist, while dressed in the designer of the moment…you may want to walk away (and be labeled a wimp by yours truly)
3. If you can’t take the heat, seriously don’t even bother. Zombies aren’t “pretty”, they don’t sparkle…they decay.
4. If you don’t know what a Fleshlight is, again step away from the book. It may harm your delicate sensibilities.

Consider yourself properly warned. I don’t want to hear that you were shocked or appalled when Amanda went all Zombie Bitch and ate someone, which made you loose your lunch. Nope, don’t want to hear it.

Sorry, some of Amanda’s snark has apparently seeped into my veins.

In the deliciously vulgar third book in the Amanda Feral series, we see how far Miss Feral’s finances have taken a dive. Her car is repossessed, there’s all sorts of firings/layoff’s going on at Feral Inc. What’s a zombie to do when she gets offered the chance to judge a new reality show? Amanda judges for free people, why not get paid?! When Wood Nymph Johnny Birch is found murdered closely followed by the murders of two of the house guests, Amanda goes all Magnum PI, better dressed mind you and figures out who killed who. The house guests are some of the most out there supernaturals, from a transvestite werewolf (excuse me, WULF) to a very very scary white trash stripper by the name of Hairy Sue. You’ll be snorting loudly when you pick up this book, it’s full of oddities and the best one liners out there.

Mark Henry had me rolling with lines like: “All guys want a little finger action” (Do they really Mark?) to“I’m going to swear off men & buy a Fleshlight”.There’s even a mention about a certain female PR author and her ability to Smolder, let me tell you the woman can smolder like no other. But I won’t ruin it and tell you who she is, you gotta figure that out all by yourself. Anyone who can throw out the word poon in a sentence is my kinda people and Mark Henry does not disappoint.

This is some of Mark Henry’s best writing, it’s fast paced with Amanda’s trademark snark all included in hysterically funny footnotes. Never mind the “reality” supernatural tv show guide which was an excellent addition to the book, to bad they don’t really exist! I’d be all over that!

Battle of the Network Zombies not only saves Amanda Feral, but it makes you wish you had your very own zombie best-friend!

My Rating: 5/5 (run to the bookstore & grab this when it comes out…that is unless you are a wimp with delicate sensibilities)

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