I received this book from NetGalley free for review. I do not have to publish a favorable opinion of the book due to this, so all thoughts are my own. I do have to notify that it was free, so consider yourself notified.

I honestly wanted to publish a one word review for this book- unreadable and if I had purchased the book (thank God I didn't), I would have stopped after the first section. The reason for the desire to stop is the entire opening part of the book is written without any punctuation except commas. Yes, you just read that correctly. It is done in the form of a teen writing (I am guessing), hence the bad punctuation, but it makes the opening parts (as well as other parts of the book) almost unreadable.

The main character is Guy Boy Man (yes, that is his name) who is a HS student who sees zombies everywhere. His goal is to kill his principal who he thinks he is a zombie. The reader doesn't know if this is delusion or truth or whatever, but to be honest, I didn't care. In fact, right now, I feel I am doing too much analytical work than the book deserves.

I picked this book as an introduction to NetGalley. I thought it might be cheesy fun, such as some of the recent Pride, Prejudice, and Zombie type books. I knew it would be sub par and so I lowered my standards. I figured I would breeze through it in half a day. It took a week, simply because I did not want to read it. Bad writing style, bad character names, terrible plot, and the revelation that this is going to be a series! Please don't, just don't. ( )

Please note: I first read this almost exactly a year ago. This was a re-read in preparation for reading the sequel.

Book Info: Genre: YA Fantasy/Horror Satire
Reading Level: YA (probably 16 on up due to language and sexual content)
Trigger warnings: In the course of battling zombie teens, there is a school shooting. This book is also extremely non-PC, so if you're easily offended, you might want to skip it.

My Thoughts: I just love a silly book, and the description of this one led me to believe this would be high up there on the silliness scale. Oana’s explanation as to why there were no hs or js in their names cracked me up. Actually, quite a lot of it cracked me up. James Marshall manages to provide a book that is wonderfully grammatic yet full of extra-long, run-on sentences. One of my favorite aspects of it was Guy Boy Man’s constant explanation as to what he really means whenever a sentence could be taken more than one way. The descriptions are hilarious. Guy Boy Man is one of the very few people who see that there are so many zombies – apparently most people don’t even notice that the people surrounding them are undead.

A sequel is in the works: Zombies versus Fairy featuring Albinos, which is scheduled for release later this year. You know I’ll be watching and waiting for it. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants a good laugh.

Disclosure: I received a free eGalley from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Synopsis: In a world where Zombies control banks and governments, only one young man sees the way things are and emerges from the Chaos and destruction: Guy Boy Man. While he tries to end human suffering worldwide and in his high school, Guy Boy Man meets a cute Pink-Haired girl named Baby Doll15 who has a Unicorn that follows her everywhere. An Epic Romance begins, but forces Beyond Their Control are intent on keeping the young couple apart. One of those Forces may - or may not be! - Guy Boy Man's closest friend, a handsome African-American Ninja named Sweetie Honey; another could be four Exotically Beautiful, genetically engineered and behaviorally modified Eastern European Girls; yet another, the principal of their High School ...not to mention an impending standardized test known as the Zombie Acceptance Test! Will Guy Boy Man find a way to be with Baby Doll15 in a World Where Everyone Is Doomed to become either zombies or zombie food? ( )

NVPFZ is weird. Quirky. Chaotic. Borderline nonsensical. It's also extremely loveable, if you can get past the sometimes-unbearable precociousness of Guy Boy Man's narrative voice. He's a pretty unlikable hero: petty, manic, narcissistic; at one point he uses disabled children to protect himself from a horde of troubled zombie teens. He plays the tough guy, complete with hardboiled quips, yet cannot properly handle a gun in a firefight. Yet James Marshall's book wouldn't work without it; the voice is precisely why the book maintains any sort of narrative thrust. Guy Boy Man never stops talking, creating a story that's almost ideal for this ADD generation. He's also one of the most unreliable of unreliable narrators I've come across; just how much is real and how much is the fevered imagination of a deranged adolescent mind. Guy Boy Man is a prototypical disenfranchised teenager, raging against everything and anything, and warping his view of the world on a minute-by-minute basis to make it better conform to his nebulous ideology.

Read the full review at Shelf Monkey. ( )

I am currently infatuated with the recent zombie trend. My favorite TV show is The Walking Dead and I even gave Pride and Prejudice and Zombies five stars. Really I'm a sucker for all things paranormal so when I saw this book I thought it would be right down my alley but sadly that wasn't the case. I knew from the description that it would over the top but the book was just too hard to follow. It is written in a weird format almost as if Guy Boy Man is just rambling from thought to thought without forming full sentences. That alone wasn't enough to throw me off so I kept reading but then the story was just way too far over the top. I didn't expect any realism but this was just downright weird. I got about halfway through the book and I just never got engaged in the story so I called it a day and gave up on this one. The target audience might be a mature young adult and I'm sure it's going to be a huge hit but I had to pass on finishing this one up. ( )