How the White Trash
Zombie Got Her Groove Back
Diana Rowland
DAW, Jul 1 2014, $7.99
ISBN 9780756408220
Angel Crawford muses that human life was ugly
for a white trash junkie like her.
However, as a zombie dead head she is clean; earned her GED; raises her
baby Philip; and even earns a legitimate living as a coroner’s morgue assistant
and as a lab rat working for Dr. Nikas. She has come so far Angel considers attending
college, a word she thought was a profanity not too long ago.
As she congratulates herself on how far she has come, Angel
worries about Philip especially when Dr. Zikas’ untested but needed medical
procedure fails to fix an imbalance. Not long afterward Saberton
deploys a new assault, which leads to the kidnapping of zombie Tribe leader
Pietro Ivanov, Dr. Nikas and others. Angel
escapes assassination, but knows more killers will pursue her and other still
free zombies. At the same time Saberton uses
Ivanov as a pawn to insure his girlfriend Congresswoman Jane Pennington
supports certain legislation. One thing
that remained with Angel from her human days is distrust as she wonders who
inside her community are quislings selling out zombies and their supporters for
blood money.
The latest White Trash Zombie urban fantasy
(see White Trash
Zombie Apocalypse, My Life As A White Trash Zombie and Even
White Trash Zombies Get the Blues) is a
superb entry as ethical questions re loyalty vs. perfidy merge with science and
gory humor. Filled with blood, guts
(literally and metaphorically) and deep moral existential dilemmas in the bayou,
readers will root for Angel as she tries to do the right thing while unsure what
that is since personal conflicting needs clash between each person and zombie.
Harriet Klausner
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