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kaitiecakes's review against another edition
5.0
Once again I am loving this series. It’s got zombies and action. Mystery... it feels like it has everything and I love it. Can’t wait to start on the next book.
I love how I think I have things figured out and then it turns out to shock the hell out of me.
I love how I think I have things figured out and then it turns out to shock the hell out of me.
snoopydoo77's review against another edition
4.0
4 ½ ★
This books just starts a few weeks where the last book ended and get us right back to Angel and her job and now new boyfriend.
I really love Angel she is truly realistic down to earth has flaws and struggles but yet we love her as she is trying to better her life.
I love that it takes her a while and she is not just perfect even though she not taking drugs anymore. While she works to get her life even more under control and working on getting a GED she still struggles and falls back to her old self a little.
She also working on her relationship with her dad, again it all is just real, it has more downs than ups but they are working on it. And it really awesome to follow them on the often hard journey to a sober life and a good father –daughter relationship.
You can find my full review here:
http://snoopydoosbookreviews.com/even-white-trash-zombies-get-blues-white-trash-zombie-2-diana-rowland/
This books just starts a few weeks where the last book ended and get us right back to Angel and her job and now new boyfriend.
I really love Angel she is truly realistic down to earth has flaws and struggles but yet we love her as she is trying to better her life.
I love that it takes her a while and she is not just perfect even though she not taking drugs anymore. While she works to get her life even more under control and working on getting a GED she still struggles and falls back to her old self a little.
She also working on her relationship with her dad, again it all is just real, it has more downs than ups but they are working on it. And it really awesome to follow them on the often hard journey to a sober life and a good father –daughter relationship.
You can find my full review here:
http://snoopydoosbookreviews.com/even-white-trash-zombies-get-blues-white-trash-zombie-2-diana-rowland/
kathydavie's review against another edition
5.0
Second in the White Trash Zombies comic horror urban fantasy series and revolving around Angel Crawford, a white trash victim who became a coroner's office body wagon driver. It's been about a month since My Life as a White Trash Zombie, 1.
My Take
No kidding it's blue! And Angel has a lot to be blue about in this one what with the isolation and feelings of inferiority that permeate this story. Losing the position that gives her a sense of self — and dinner! — as well as the lack Angel feels about herself. It's a time of angst and growth in with the conspiracy theories.
Even with the frustration and anger, Rowland cracks me up from the get go on this one. I love that Angel acknowledges the hypocrisy of her own thoughts out there at her storage unit. Nor is the excitement lacking what with body snatching, cruel medical experimentation, brainwashing (hmmm, could have different connotations in a zombie story), libel, ambushes, chases, betrayals up the wazoo, kidnapping, the most unlikely of rescues, and a surprising rally.
I love the thought processes Angel goes through in this. All the worrying and wondering as the existence of a zombie mafia is revealed. That meet-the-parents do that Marcus insists on. The confidences Marcus doesn't give her and his controlling approach, but only with her. And there's her progress as she comes to some good conclusions. Although, Angel and Marcus' ideas of foreplay…ick.
The characters are great in this. Those close to Angel on the job are warm and supportive—even Nick! Her dad is a hard dose of reality, but making an effort. The politics at the office, *eye roll*, how can one avoid those? It's real life characters with a zany setting.
Nice bit of foreshadowing with the dead guy at the factory, lol. Oh, lord, laughing about a dead man who probably died horribly…*eye roll*…that's bad.
Derrel has some ideas on what should have happened when Angel had her trial. Sounds like that public defender needs to be shot. We also find out what causes zombieism and why Ed thought zombies were so horrible.
The one negative? It surprises me that the pathologist will take on anyone as an assistant without any training. Yep, the only negative I could find (or remember) because I was too absorbed in reading the story — I love it!
The Story
It's a routine pickup for Angel, except the dead guy doesn't smell right. The number of things that don't "smell right" simply escalates, but what's truly bad is…no one believes Angel. No one.
It gets worse yet with that meeting with her probation officer coming up. That incident with the theft and her own earlier issues are coming back to haunt her as someone is working very hard to slander her in the press. She's supposed to be working on her G.E.D. and even the truly dead are coming back to life!
The Characters
Angel Crawford is coping with her new "life" as a zombie and morgue assistant for the St. Edwards Parish Sheriff's Office. Getting the brain supply issues straightened out. Testing her new relationship with her dad. Freaking about that upcoming appointment with her probation officer. Her dad's been out of work on a disability and drowning his pains in alcohol and beating on Angel. But after My Life as a White Trash Zombie, he's been trying.
Deputy Marcus Ivanov is Angel's boyfriend. And her maker, for he's a zombie too. Pietro Ivanov is Marcus' uncle, very wealthy, very snotty, and a zombie. The one who turned Marcus when he was bit by a rabid raccoon. Nathan and Morena are Marcus' parents.
Derrel Cusimano, a former linebacker for LSU, is the death investigator with whom Angel works. Dr. Leblanc is the parish forensic pathologist. Dr. Duplessis is the parish coroner and Angel's boss who is coming up for re-election. Allen Prejean is the chief investigator, and he hates Angel too. Nick is a fellow van driver who taught Angel in My Life as a White Trash Zombie.
Ed Quinn is Marcus' childhood friend who tried to kill him in My Life as a White Trash Zombie. Marianne is Ed's now-former girlfriend. Kudzu is her cadaver dog. We learn more about Drs. Sam and Dawn Quinn's murders — she was a neurologist experimenting with the brain — and how it plays into today's story. Dr. Kristi Burke was a colleague of Ed's parents and Dawn's partner.
Detectives Ben Roth and Mike Abadie; it seems Abadie doesn't hate Angel. Captain Pierson is the head of the Sheriff's Office Investigations Division. Major Hall is Marcus' boss; seems Marcus can't be dating a felon on probation. Sean is a crime scene tech. Tracie is in the crime lab.
Mr. Garza is Angel's probation officer. Zeke Lyons is one of the zombies who were beheaded in My Life as a White Trash Zombie. Randy is Angel's jerk of an ex-boyfriend and Clive was his "best bud". A drug dealer who expected Angel to steal drugs from the dead bodies she carts back to the morgue.
NuQuesCor Lab
The lab is a private corporation working on a variety of secret projects, some for the government. Norman Kearny appears to be a security guard there. Dr. Sofia Baldwin is an old friend of Marcus' from high school. Dr. Charish is Baldwin's boss and the lab director. Walter McKinney is their head of security. Philip and Aaron Wallace are volunteers.
The Cover
The cover is so perfectly Angel. She is white trash, and I love this profile of her sitting on the can with a cigarette in hand, pondering the future, resting her elbows on her tattered black tight-clad thighs, those blue and white striped kneesocks coloring her calves, her feet clad in heavy black ankle boots with untied shoelaces. This time around, Angel is sporting a blue mohawk with hardware dangling from her ears and blood dripping from her thigh and smeared on her white wifebeater. The title and author's name is beautifully painted as graffiti, lol, on the stall wall. I just love it!
The title is perfect and the cover color bears it out, Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues as Angel ponders her future.
My Take
No kidding it's blue! And Angel has a lot to be blue about in this one what with the isolation and feelings of inferiority that permeate this story. Losing the position that gives her a sense of self — and dinner! — as well as the lack Angel feels about herself. It's a time of angst and growth in with the conspiracy theories.
Even with the frustration and anger, Rowland cracks me up from the get go on this one. I love that Angel acknowledges the hypocrisy of her own thoughts out there at her storage unit. Nor is the excitement lacking what with body snatching, cruel medical experimentation, brainwashing (hmmm, could have different connotations in a zombie story), libel, ambushes, chases, betrayals up the wazoo, kidnapping, the most unlikely of rescues, and a surprising rally.
I love the thought processes Angel goes through in this. All the worrying and wondering as the existence of a zombie mafia is revealed. That meet-the-parents do that Marcus insists on. The confidences Marcus doesn't give her and his controlling approach, but only with her. And there's her progress as she comes to some good conclusions. Although, Angel and Marcus' ideas of foreplay…ick.
The characters are great in this. Those close to Angel on the job are warm and supportive—even Nick! Her dad is a hard dose of reality, but making an effort. The politics at the office, *eye roll*, how can one avoid those? It's real life characters with a zany setting.
Nice bit of foreshadowing with the dead guy at the factory, lol. Oh, lord, laughing about a dead man who probably died horribly…*eye roll*…that's bad.
Derrel has some ideas on what should have happened when Angel had her trial. Sounds like that public defender needs to be shot. We also find out what causes zombieism and why Ed thought zombies were so horrible.
The one negative? It surprises me that the pathologist will take on anyone as an assistant without any training. Yep, the only negative I could find (or remember) because I was too absorbed in reading the story — I love it!
The Story
It's a routine pickup for Angel, except the dead guy doesn't smell right. The number of things that don't "smell right" simply escalates, but what's truly bad is…no one believes Angel. No one.
It gets worse yet with that meeting with her probation officer coming up. That incident with the theft and her own earlier issues are coming back to haunt her as someone is working very hard to slander her in the press. She's supposed to be working on her G.E.D. and even the truly dead are coming back to life!
The Characters
Angel Crawford is coping with her new "life" as a zombie and morgue assistant for the St. Edwards Parish Sheriff's Office. Getting the brain supply issues straightened out. Testing her new relationship with her dad. Freaking about that upcoming appointment with her probation officer. Her dad's been out of work on a disability and drowning his pains in alcohol and beating on Angel. But after My Life as a White Trash Zombie, he's been trying.
Deputy Marcus Ivanov is Angel's boyfriend. And her maker, for he's a zombie too. Pietro Ivanov is Marcus' uncle, very wealthy, very snotty, and a zombie. The one who turned Marcus when he was bit by a rabid raccoon. Nathan and Morena are Marcus' parents.
Derrel Cusimano, a former linebacker for LSU, is the death investigator with whom Angel works. Dr. Leblanc is the parish forensic pathologist. Dr. Duplessis is the parish coroner and Angel's boss who is coming up for re-election. Allen Prejean is the chief investigator, and he hates Angel too. Nick is a fellow van driver who taught Angel in My Life as a White Trash Zombie.
Ed Quinn is Marcus' childhood friend who tried to kill him in My Life as a White Trash Zombie. Marianne is Ed's now-former girlfriend. Kudzu is her cadaver dog. We learn more about Drs. Sam and Dawn Quinn's murders — she was a neurologist experimenting with the brain — and how it plays into today's story. Dr. Kristi Burke was a colleague of Ed's parents and Dawn's partner.
Detectives Ben Roth and Mike Abadie; it seems Abadie doesn't hate Angel. Captain Pierson is the head of the Sheriff's Office Investigations Division. Major Hall is Marcus' boss; seems Marcus can't be dating a felon on probation. Sean is a crime scene tech. Tracie is in the crime lab.
Mr. Garza is Angel's probation officer. Zeke Lyons is one of the zombies who were beheaded in My Life as a White Trash Zombie. Randy is Angel's jerk of an ex-boyfriend and Clive was his "best bud". A drug dealer who expected Angel to steal drugs from the dead bodies she carts back to the morgue.
NuQuesCor Lab
The lab is a private corporation working on a variety of secret projects, some for the government. Norman Kearny appears to be a security guard there. Dr. Sofia Baldwin is an old friend of Marcus' from high school. Dr. Charish is Baldwin's boss and the lab director. Walter McKinney is their head of security. Philip and Aaron Wallace are volunteers.
The Cover
The cover is so perfectly Angel. She is white trash, and I love this profile of her sitting on the can with a cigarette in hand, pondering the future, resting her elbows on her tattered black tight-clad thighs, those blue and white striped kneesocks coloring her calves, her feet clad in heavy black ankle boots with untied shoelaces. This time around, Angel is sporting a blue mohawk with hardware dangling from her ears and blood dripping from her thigh and smeared on her white wifebeater. The title and author's name is beautifully painted as graffiti, lol, on the stall wall. I just love it!
The title is perfect and the cover color bears it out, Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues as Angel ponders her future.
yodamom's review against another edition
3.0
Lacked the thrill of book one.
The first 3/4 of the book was a slow ramble
The last 1/4 made up for the slowness with it's intensity
This was a story character development chapter in the series slow but has set up the world well.
On to #3
The first 3/4 of the book was a slow ramble
The last 1/4 made up for the slowness with it's intensity
This was a story character development chapter in the series slow but has set up the world well.
On to #3
mehsi's review against another edition
4.0
Not a long review, but a short what I thought about it.
I was kind of worried about this book, while the first book still left a whole lot open for more books, I wasn't sure if it would be ok or if I would like it.
It turns out, I didn't need to worry, the book was just awesomeness.
Angel is once again, a really kick-ass zombie. Marcus... well I wish he would stop being so worried and always making decisions for Angel. Angel doesn't need a babysitter, she just wants a cute boyfriend who she can trust and who trusts her in return.
It was also a very exciting book, lots happened, we got mafia, new zombies, conspiracies, death and so much more! I flew through this book, it was really an amazing ride, and unlike the first > second book, I couldn't wait to read the third one.
I will be sure to read the rest of the books too, whenever they come out, and I really hope many will still be written.
I was kind of worried about this book, while the first book still left a whole lot open for more books, I wasn't sure if it would be ok or if I would like it.
It turns out, I didn't need to worry, the book was just awesomeness.
Angel is once again, a really kick-ass zombie. Marcus... well I wish he would stop being so worried and always making decisions for Angel. Angel doesn't need a babysitter, she just wants a cute boyfriend who she can trust and who trusts her in return.
It was also a very exciting book, lots happened, we got mafia, new zombies, conspiracies, death and so much more! I flew through this book, it was really an amazing ride, and unlike the first > second book, I couldn't wait to read the third one.
I will be sure to read the rest of the books too, whenever they come out, and I really hope many will still be written.
snakeboba's review against another edition
4.0
It's seems once she gets her foot out of one hole Angel ends up in another. This time it is a little more than a zombie killer and a lot more than she ever expected to handle. Not to mention her name is being dragged through the mud. Can she prove her worth or it is she stuck as a loser forever?
pause_theframe's review against another edition
5.0
What I Thought:
I Loved this book!
I read the first book in the series My Life as a White Trash Zombie and learned how Angel Crawford came to terms with and learned hoe to be a zombie. She went through trials and tribulations, trying to stay under the radar and figure out just how to get brains and the effects of eating them.
In this book, Angel is still learning about her new life, she's got a boyfriend - no not the same junked up one from the beginning of the previous book. Angel is working to make her life better. She's loving her life at the morgue and getting to know those around her. Actually,she's pretty damn good at what she does!
Then it all goes to pot.
I love how much Angel grows in this book. We get to see more of her personality, really seeing how she becomes a better person and how she falls into her own as a zombie. Her personality is brilliant. She is a strong-willed and doesn't give up.
The twists and challenges Angel faced were great. I didn't see the twists coming. I thought I knew what was going to happen,but wasn't close. I also thought Angel was excellent at the challenges she faced, never giving in and often responding with a few curses.
The pace of the book was perfect. It always moved fast enough to keep you on the edge of your seat, but still gives you enough detail to to feel like you know each character.
Overall, I am highly impressed with this book. I am a lover of zombie books, and I find this series refreshing, as it's not your typical zombie read. It gives you a look at zombie life when zombies are good and the people can sometimes be the ones who are bad. It's got action, it's got romance (well, sort of) and it's got lots and lots of attitude. I loved every page and cannot wait to read White Trash Zombie Apocalypse.
marieintheraw's review against another edition
4.0
I'm really enjoying the bigger picture that's starting to happen.
flerpi's review against another edition
3.0
This book has a lot of growth for Angel. In fact, I feel it overshadows the romance aspect, so I definitely approve of that. The plot/mystery was interesting, but the "who did what why" part was confusing; if the characters hadn't had a sit-down to explain everything, I wouldn't have gotten it.