J.A. Kossler

I have a really hard time with zombies in love. Zombies that get their brains packaged from the morgue, sure, I can deal, but zombies who absolutely must consume a person while they are alive? Nope. Not even if it's justified as the law of the jungle or the nature of animals.

I also could not get into the lead character, our hero the teenaged vampire. He was turned as a small child, then raised by this organization instead of being instantly killed. But he has no freedom, and when he reaches 18 and his fangs and venom sacks come in (it's a thing, go with it) he will be forced to have them removed. The guy has no freedom, no bodily autonomy, nothing. It was hard for me to read and deal with. Then there was his instant love for the zombie-person-eater who dismisses stalking as "just what zombies do." The whole love story read to me as an abused child ending up with another potential abuser.

Two stars because the writing wasn't bad, it was just this story contained so much nope here for me on a very personal level.

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