You Are So Undead to Me (Megan Berry, #1)

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You Are So Undead to Me (Megan Berry #1)

by Stacey Jay (Goodreads Author)

3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 · rating details · 1,780 ratings · 214 reviews

Fifteen-year-old Megan Berry is a Zombie Settler by birth, which means she's part-time shrink to a bunch of dead people with a whole lot of issues.

All Megan wants is to be normal and go to homecoming, of course. Unfortunately, it's a little difficult when your dates keep getting interrupted by a bunch of slobbering Undead.

Things are about to get even more complicated for M...more

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Published January 22nd 2009 by Razorbill

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Oct 01, 2011 Kat Kennedy rated it 3 of 5 stars

Don't judge me for giving this three stars.

Yes, the heroine was painfully stupid.

Yes, the romance was corny.

But... ZOMBIES, people! ZOMBIES!

And it was funny and imaginative at times and...

ZOMBIES!!!!!!!

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Nov 13, 2012 Jennifer Wardrip rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Fifteen-year-old Megan Berry thought that she'd been rid of the Settler gig forever. Ever since the zombies attacked her at the age of ten, she hasn't been expected to continue interviewing the regular, nonthreatening undead to help them settle their worldly affairs so they could quietly go back to the grave.

But now, dead guys are showing up on her doorstep again, and even though Megan's Settler powers have returned full-force, picking up the job...more

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Jan 18, 2009 Kristi (The Story Siren) rated it 3 of 5 stars

Stacey Jay made my first exposure to the wonderful world of zombie literature a fun one! I always think of Michael Jackson’s Thriller video when I think of zombies. Not that has any significance for this review, but I just felt like throwing that out there, because that’s how I kept imagining the zombies when I was reading this novel. I thought the whole Settler society was a very interesting and unique! And Jay does a remarkable job depicting it.

I was expecting a darker theme, but it ended up...more

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Oct 20, 2012 Alyssa rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: chick-lit, pnr-witches, pnr, zombies, young-adult

Megan is a powerful zombie settler who recently comes into her powers once more after suppressing them following a traumatizing encounter with reanimated corpses (RCs) as a child. The reemergence of her powers wreaks havoc on her blossoming social life, in which she's dating the school's cutest boy and pursuing a spot on the pom squad. Afterall, what teenage girl wants to be dealing with zombies instead of going on dates and dancing?

On top of the return of her powers, Megan must find out how to...more

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Jan 11, 2009 Rachael rated it 3 of 5 stars

All Megan Berry wants is a normal life, but since she’s a Settler by birth, it’s her job to send Undead back to their final resting place, the grave. And even is her powers did lapse for a few years, giving her just a taste of normalcy, they return stronger than ever when fifteen-going-on-sixteen Megan is just about to go on a date with the hottest guy in school. And now that Megan has her Settler powers back, her chances of going to homecoming and making the pom squad are severely diminished, e...more All Megan Berry wants is a normal life, but since she’s a Settler by birth, it’s her job to send Undead back to their final resting place, the grave. And even is her powers did lapse for a few years, giving her just a taste of normalcy, they return stronger than ever when fifteen-going-on-sixteen Megan is just about to go on a date with the hottest guy in school. And now that Megan has her Settler powers back, her chances of going to homecoming and making the pom squad are severely diminished, especially because someone at school is using black magic to raise Reanimated Corpses or Zombies. And as the RC attacks become more frequent and dangerous, Megan starts to realize that the plot is more sinister than she could ever imagine, even if her fellow Settlers don’t believe her. And so, it’s all up to Megan alone, it seems, to save the day, and homecoming, before it’s too late.

You Are So Undead to Me is a story with a unique idea but unfortunately subpar execution. My main problem were the characters; they were much too stereotypical. Ethan is the characteristic crush who eventually falls for the heroine, Monica is your typical evil popular girl in the way of said heroine’s plans for rising on the social ladder and getting the guy, and Megan is the girl who fights against what she is. Also, it’s been a while since I’ve had to call a character annoying, but that is what Megan is; her snarky and shallow thoughts soon get old and her boy distractions are too common and only distract from the main storyline. The plot was mostly predictable except for one commendable twist. I felt there some gaps in the story’s background that bothered me; for example, Settlers are born with power, but how do black magic practitioners, who aren’t born with that power, then gain some to perform their evil spells? In all, You Are So Undead to Me is amusing for a light read but not so great once you look beneath the surface.

You Are So Undead to Me may be popular among fans of the supernatural. Readers who enjoyed Revealers by Amanda Marrone will also like this novel.

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Feb 11, 2013 Morgan Wyatt rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult-paranormal

This is really a 2.5, not quite a three, but not a 2 either.

Did you hear Zombies are the new Vampire? The werewolf and shape shifter barely got any page play in novels. I wondered how you could make a zombie sexy or intelligent for that matter. Stacey Jay tackles that and more in her Zombie Settler series. In her first book, YOU ARE SO UNDEAD TO ME by Razor Bill Press, we meet Megan Berry, zombie settler.

Megan Berry is the girl we all despised in high school. She is a tiny size four, beautiful,...more This is really a 2.5, not quite a three, but not a 2 either.

Did you hear Zombies are the new Vampire? The werewolf and shape shifter barely got any page play in novels. I wondered how you could make a zombie sexy or intelligent for that matter. Stacey Jay tackles that and more in her Zombie Settler series. In her first book, YOU ARE SO UNDEAD TO ME by Razor Bill Press, we meet Megan Berry, zombie settler.

Megan Berry is the girl we all despised in high school. She is a tiny size four, beautiful, dating the popular older senior guy when she’s only a freshman. She’s also a wonderful dancer and slated to be on the popular dance team. What else can the amazing Megan do, well settle zombies, of course.

If you’re wondering, zombies really are as stupid as they appear on the big screen movies. Most are unaware they are dead. They need someone to explain it to then, that’s where Megan comes in. They have some internal honing device where teenaged zombies only seek out a teenage settler to tell their problems to and deliver any last message. Megan takes the info, then, and sends them to their grave with a blessing, similar to a pat on a head.

Now this doesn’t sound too bad, no kicking butt like Buffy. You’d be wrong. The zombies are always ruining Megan’s social life by turning up at the same time as her dates do. Now most folks do not know she’s a zombie settler and she’d like to keep it that way. Even though zombies are mindless for the most part, those with evil intents can use them for their own purposes and wreak havoc doing so

The most important thing to Megan is to attend the homecoming dance. Rogue zombies are getting in her way. One even has the bad taste to wear her very expensive dress and to burst into flames while doing so. Someone doesn’t want Megan to go to the dance. (Cue dramatic music.) Enter Ethan, hot, much older zombie settler to rescue Megan again.

This is a book meant for young adults, but they should be appalled to be portrayed as incredibly shallow, petty, and just plain stupid. Having jealous girls who just happened to be witches who cook up the plot to take over the world is plain boring and offensive at the same time. Megan must be as dumb as they come because her best friend has always been a major player in the I Hate Megan club, and Megan never had a clue.

I realize adults often complain that teens are stupid, ignorant, and self-serving. Not buying it, these two dimensional characters don’t sell me. I am appalled at Megan’s parents who seem to let her go out with tons of guys on school nights, then worry about her doing spells that might be too advanced for her. Hello, have they heard of teenage pregnancy or STDs? I am sure every teenage girl would love to have these parents.

YOU ARE SO UNDEAD TO ME tries to be a cross between Carrie, Harry Potter, and Night of the Living Dead. I kept reading YOU ARE SO UNDEAD TO ME because I thought it would get better. I kept waiting for Megan to burst into flames, or at least turn into a sympathetic character. Sadly, she did neither. Save your time and go watch reruns of Grimm instead.
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Mar 30, 2012 Johanna rated it 2 of 5 stars

You Are So Undead To Me
(Megan Berry Book #1)
by Stacey Jay

Genre: Urban Fantasy / Young Adult

Megan Berry's social life is so dead. Literally. Fifteen-year-old Megan is a Zombie Settler by birth, which means she's part-time shrink to a bunch of dead people with a whole lot of issues. And things are about to get even worse. Someone at school is using black magic to turn average, angsty Undead into flesh-eating Zombies and it's up to Megan to stop the zombie apocalypse...
Studying her Settler textbo...more

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Oct 07, 2011 April rated it 2 of 5 stars

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“My cell rang at ten till six. Jess was talking before I could even say hello.

‘So what are you wearing, the dress or the butt jeans?’ she asked, sounding nearly as breathless as I felt.

This was it: the first night of the rest of my life, the beginning of my social ascension at Carol High School. Pom squad tryouts were a couple of weeks away, but it looked like I was going to be accepted into the ranks of the trendy and gorgeous even before I was issued my official Cougar Pride dance team unifor...more “My cell rang at ten till six. Jess was talking before I could even say hello.

‘So what are you wearing, the dress or the butt jeans?’ she asked, sounding nearly as breathless as I felt.

This was it: the first night of the rest of my life, the beginning of my social ascension at Carol High School. Pom squad tryouts were a couple of weeks away, but it looked like I was going to be accepted into the ranks of the trendy and gorgeous even before I was issued my official Cougar Pride dance team uniform.

I’d scored a date with the hottest guy in school over a Bunsen burner in junior chem. I was a year ahead and Mr. Hottie a year behind, but it was clearly fate—and not smarts or lack thereof—that had made us lab partners.”

Thus begins the normal tale of Megan Berry, a sophomore at Carol High, who is THIS CLOSE to bagging a senior football quarterback as her date for homecoming. There is only one problem—there is some witch in school who doesn’t want her to go to homecoming with anyone. Megan will have to use her head to figure out who and her powers as a Zombie Settler to keep herself and the school safe from the flesh-eating Reanimated Corpses. That shouldn’t be a problem, right?

It’s YA in the sense that Buffy the Vampire Killer is YA. It probably would have been one of my guilty pleasures back in the day. Megan makes typical teen-girl mistakes, for all her extraordinary circumstances. I would call it “Supernatural Chick Lit.” It isn’t YA literature at its finest, but it’s quick read that caused me more than the average eye-rolls, but at the same time, I had to finish it.

Definitely for girls. Girls between 15 and 17, I wouldn’t dare to go older. Unless they aren’t avid readers, but still like the Supernatural genre. It’s very girlie with a capital G. It is almost stereo-typically so, but it seems to make fun of the stereo-type while at the same time forgiving it.

Teachable? Ha! I laugh at the notion. Out loud. It doesn’t really bring much to the table and Megan just gets away with way too much. It’s an easy romance novel with Zombies.

What really, really bothered me about this book, was not the sort of flakey, Buffy-esque character but with Zombies motif. It was the fact that Megan (size 4) constantly made unfavorable self-comparisons to Monica (size 2) about their different dress sizes. It made me angry and it almost caused me to stop reading. However, it didn’t happen often enough to make me throw the book across the room or tear it in half (which is a good thing, considering the copy doesn’t belong to me but my professor.) And it is consistent to the character to bring it up. But I don’t have to like it. Otherwise, it is pretty funny in an over the top way, that is very appealing after trudging through James Joyce or some other mammoth. The ending wasn’t as suspenseful as I would have liked, having figured out who dunit a while before. It’s much shorter than Twilight (I have never read Twilight) so I’d say it’s a good starter for something along those lines. All in all, I found it restful and amusing.
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Oct 25, 2010 Ksenia rated it 4 of 5 stars

First off, I was pleasantly surprised by Undead. It truly was a Buffy-esque type of story. Here is high-schooler Megan Berry and she has a special gift: She is a Settler, which means she has to help the undead resolve their issues so that they may stay dead peacefully. She’s not the only one though; there is a whole community of Settlers, but their existence is kept secret from the normal world. There is even special training and learning involved in being a Settler. But of course, poor Megan ju...more

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Sep 01, 2010 Myhotstylist rated it 5 of 5 stars

Excellent book! I was hooked on the first page, and couldnt put it down.

Megan is a settler by birth. meaning she has the power to put unsettled zombies back in their graves. All Megan wants to do is be asked by the football star Josh to the homecomming dance, but when zombies start showing up on her dates, in the lockerooms, and worse at her house, Megan has to figure out who is re-animating them and fast.
Her childhood friend, Ethan, is all grown up now and works for protocall, (the Settler Af...more

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May 26, 2010 Sam rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Megan Berry is a 16 year old Zombie Settler- this means dead people with issues come back from the grave and find her to vent their frustrations. She had a reprieve after some major issues a few years ago, but it appears that her powers are coming back full force. In fact, Megan may be the strongest Settler around. Naturally, this has some major impacts on her personal life; it's hard to keep a boyfriend or go to the homecoming dance when there are dead people looking for you on a regular basis....more

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Mar 14, 2010 CorLostForWords rated it 4 of 5 stars

The title is quite tongue in cheek and sets the tone for this novel. I've never honestly been a fan of zombie books, so this one was refreshingly better than most. I found it quite lighthearted and endearing. Megan has powers that she doesn't want; she just wants to lead a normal life. Sadly, she seems to stumble upon zombies wherever she goes and has to deal with them without getting killed in the process. I really enjoyed the characters that we saw, they were predictable in places, but in othe...more

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Jan 01, 2010 Lilly Cain rated it 5 of 5 stars

Imagine you are back in high school. Remember the angst, the pressure to belong, your first crush and the homecoming dance in sophomore year? Now add a swarm of undead to your memories. Life could be easier if Megan Berry wasn’t a Zombie Settler by birth, and after losing her memories and power for five years it looked like the worst thing she would face in her teens would be possible rejection from the Pom Squad. Instead, her powers return on the eve of her first date with the school football h...more

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Sep 29, 2009 Lexie rated it 4 of 5 stars

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When I first heard/read about this book I wasn't so sure I would like it. Even though its got zombies, which are just plain cool in any form, I wasn't sure how I felt about a zombie-shrink. I'm very happy to have read this book however! Throughout much of it I kind of just wanted to leap into the book with a chainsaw and be like Ash from the Evil Dead movies, just because I felt so bad for Megan.

Megan had a good life going for her and it seemed like it would only get better. Even though I'm not...more

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Jun 29, 2009 Kaila rated it 5 of 5 stars

Stacey Jay Has Created A Very Original Piece Of Work With This Book...I Was Shocked At the Idea Of Settlers And Having To Put The Undead To Rest. It Was Something I've Never Heard Of. And I Immediately Loved The Idea. Megan Is Very Likable From The First Page.. Although, The Prologue Of This Book Scared The Crap Out Of Me And Then The First Chapter Confused Me.. Megan Experienced A Terrible Attack At The Age Of 10 Which Caused Her To Forget Most Of The Settler World.. Kind Of Like A Form Of Post...more

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Jun 18, 2009 Lily Benan rated it 4 of 5 stars

You Are So Undead to Me, by Stacey Jay, is about Megan Berry, a zombie settler. When people are buried, if they have any unsolved problems, they rise from they grave and find a settler, usually their age, to help them. That's what Megan is, by birth. Zombies come to her house to find her at night, and she gets the information needed to help them settle, then sends them back to their grave. Other than her family and other settlers, no one knows that Megan is one, in fact, most people don't know t...more

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Apr 30, 2009 Katie(babs) rated it 3 of 5 stars

You Are So Undead To Me is the first book in Stacey Jay’s new YA series about fifteen year old Megan Berry who has to deal with zombies rising from their graves at the most inopportune moments. Stacey has written a funny paranormal that has a nice chick-lit feel for the teens. As an adult reader I really did enjoy the day in the life of a young girl who is a type of zombie therapist.

Megan Berry may seem to be your typical teenager who is worried about dating or making the pom squad. This fifteen...more You Are So Undead To Me is the first book in Stacey Jay’s new YA series about fifteen year old Megan Berry who has to deal with zombies rising from their graves at the most inopportune moments. Stacey has written a funny paranormal that has a nice chick-lit feel for the teens. As an adult reader I really did enjoy the day in the life of a young girl who is a type of zombie therapist.

Megan Berry may seem to be your typical teenager who is worried about dating or making the pom squad. This fifteen year old has more pressing problems as a Settler of the dead. Megan has the power to help the recently troubled who have died. She records the issues zombies had while they lived and helps them find peace before they return to their final rest. Megan thought her powers were gone forever because she almost died five years ago from a zombie attack. Now zombies are coming out of their graves and looking for Megan. Some just want to be heard, while others, known as reanimated zombies, will attack and feed on humans much like the ones in the typical zombie movies. Megan can't believe her dumb luck, especially with Homecoming right around the corner and the chance to date the hottest boy in the senior class. Megan has to constantly watch over her shoulder for these decaying corpses. Also her nemesis and fellow Settler, Monica Parsons, is there to make her life even more miserable than it already is.

Because Megan is still trying to control her zombie powers that have come back with a vengeance, she has a babysitter watching her every move. Ethan is with the Settlers' Affairs, Protocol Division, and is responsible for making sure Megan doesn't screw up. Megan and Ethan used to be friends, until five years ago. Now the eighteen year old Ethan is back and looking much more hunky than before. Too bad he treats Megan like a kid.

The reason so many zombies have become violent is because someone is using black magic to help them rise from the grave for revenge. And it seems that Megan is one of the intended victims. Her list of suspects is too long and no one seems to believe her, even Ethan who keeps giving her mixed signals. One moment he treats her like an annoying younger sister, the next he is very protective and locking lips with her. Megan doesn't know who she can turn to.

Megan just wants to survive and live a normal teenage life. Unfortunately something bigger is in store for Megan. Making the pom squad is the least of her problems when she has too many zombies breathing down her neck. Plus she is trying to come to terms with her growing feelings for Ethan who may want to be with Monica.

Stacey Jay has come up with a very unique paranormal world where the teenagers are given great responsibility due to their birth, not by choice. Megan is one of these unfortunate individuals who is expected to sacrifice her own life to help the dead who won't rest. Her life is in constant danger and the secrets she must keep, even from very close friends, becomes too much to handle. Megan has a great deal of responsibility and reacts the way I would expect any fifteen year old girl would. Some readers may think Megan is a bit immature, but if you think about it, her immaturity is because of her age. And it does seem to fit.

Megan's voice and personality is great and Stacey really can tap into a teenager's mind. The narrative and action really flows. Even as there are points of great suspense, there are also some lighthearted moments. Stacey has an enemy of sorts in Monica who is the popular girl. Monica taunts Megan every chance she gets and also likes Ethan and thinks she is better suited for him than Megan. And when Monica becomes a bit too friendly with Ethan, Megan's thoughts of revenge will give you a good chuckle. Ethan is a very interesting character because we really don't know what his motivation is. Does he like Megan as only a friend and mentor or as a young man who has feelings for her? At one point Ethan does something that angers Megan and made me feel the same, but there is a reason and by the end everything makes sense.

I had no idea who the villain was and why they wanted to hurt Megan. That was a great twist on Stacey's part. You Are So Undead To Me is a nice read for teenagers and adults alike. It was great to see zombies get their due, other than the same old paranormal creatures in the past books I have read.

Stacey Jay is a much welcomed author who has written an invigorating story about a quirky teenage girl and her day to day issues with school and those things that go bump in the night(less)

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Aug 21, 2012 Tiffany rated it 3 of 5 stars

Though this certainly wasn't a terribly complicated story, it's quite entertaining. Megan is a zombie settler who helps dead people get unresolved issues off of their dead chests and returns them to their graves. But she's just as interested in having a hot homecoming date (to go with her great dress) and making the pom squad as learning her settler duties. Part of that is because she sustained a zombie attack when she was younger that caused trauma and memory lost. The attack kept her out of se...more

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May 29, 2012 Voss Foster rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: rainy-day-books

Books like this are why I love secondhand stores. I owe whatever fluke in fate that allowed this book to make it to this town for only 25 cents a huge thank you, maybe even a cookie.

'You are so Undead to Me:' the title alone should betray at least some of the great writing. Stacey Jay manages to not only create a fantastic world (It is fantastic, and you can tell she had fun playing around in it.) but captures the plight of a fifteen year old girl convincingly.

My one complaint is that I figured...more

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Sep 05, 2009 Rachel rated it 4 of 5 stars

I wanted to give this one four and a half stars, because it was such a nice surprise. I bought it for less than seven bucks on Audible, and there were three reviews for it on that site. All commented on how much better it was than they had thought it would be.

I couldn't agree more! This book just came out this year, and it deserved to get some advertisement. You'd think, with all the commotion about paranormal YA books, I might have heard about it before, instead of sort of stumbling on it like...more

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Oct 31, 2010 Kelly rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-in-2010

I picked up this book after meeting Stacey Jay at a signing and just cracking up over how completely random she was. The lady is FUNNY, people. She had me giggling to myself in a public setting. And I don't do that. Ever.

So I picked up her book. Now, I have a slight obsession with zombies. Slight. You'd probably never even notice it. Yeah, I'm lying. You'd notice it immediately. I don't hide my obsessions well. I dig zombies. I like blood and guts and things that creep and crawl. The point is th...more

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Jan 25, 2010 Amber rated it 3 of 5 stars

I've never been a huge zombie fan. The whole undead-moaning-slobbering things has never been my cup of tea. Like many reads over the past year, I'm reaching outside my comfort zone and giving zombies more of a try. I thought this book would be a little darker and a little more serious, but it turned out to be an actual fun, witty, and light hearted one that I enjoyed.

Megan has a great young teenage voice. She just wants to live a normal life, but it's kind of hard when the undead keep showing up...more

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Jan 16, 2012 Penni rated it 2 of 5 stars

Meh. The sort of thing that Meg Cabot wrote in her Mediator series, and much better. The same sort of premise, in that this teenage girl has the ability to speak to some sort of supernatural beings (ghosts in Mediator, zombies here) and put them to rest. However, there were too many things that you were expected to just pick up as you went, and I had a hard time following the rules of her "settling" the zombies, as well as who some of the minor characters were. When the villain was revealed, I w...more

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Nov 21, 2012 Sara rated it 5 of 5 stars

You Are So Undead to Me by Stacy Jay follows Megan Berry a Zombie Settler. Megan's settler abilities have just come back and at the most inconvenient time. Megan is a teenager trying to get a date for homecoming and audition for the Pom squad. This is hard enough without both regular and rogue zombies disturbing her life. Will Megan be able to figure out who is creating these zombies and save homecoming?

This is a delightful "fluffy" zombie novel. I loved the settler mythology that was created an...more

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Jul 16, 2010 Nina rated it 5 of 5 stars

Reading Undead Much made me not go to sleep until two o’clock. Not because I was thinking zombies would come knock at my door and eat me. No, because it was jut hard to put down, I had to finish it in the late hours.

The narrative of the story is Megan Berry. She is the funniest character I have read about in a while. She’s such a typical teenager, who can’t think of anything other than the male species and especially the kind who’s named Ethan.
Megan Berry thoughts are hilarious. When she’s suppo...more

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May 20, 2009 Rhianna rated it 4 of 5 stars

As if high school isn't difficult all on its own, Megan Berry is being stalked by the Undead. Being a Zombie Settler, thanks to the powers passed down by her mother, means getting visits from walking corpses in need of a little help getting their unfinished business finished. Try hiding that from a date! But after a traumatic attack by Reanimated Corpses—think evil blood-hungry zombies made by black magic—five years ago, Megan hasn't been manifesting her powers. Until of course she's all set to...more As if high school isn't difficult all on its own, Megan Berry is being stalked by the Undead. Being a Zombie Settler, thanks to the powers passed down by her mother, means getting visits from walking corpses in need of a little help getting their unfinished business finished. Try hiding that from a date! But after a traumatic attack by Reanimated Corpses—think evil blood-hungry zombies made by black magic—five years ago, Megan hasn't been manifesting her powers. Until of course she's all set to join Carol High School's pom squad, date the hottest guy in school and get him to be her homecoming date.

That's when the trouble starts and Megan has to start caring about her duties as a Settler again. Then Reanimated Corpses start popping up and attacking people who are close to Megan. It wouldn't be so bad if she wasn't suspicious of her fellow Settler and rival Monica but unable to prove that she was the one causing the attacks. Afterall, she does get to be protected and tutored in her Settler powers by her childhood crush, Ethan, that can't be all bad. Now if only she can prove to the Elders of Settler's Affairs that she's got the right person pegged before an army of hungry zombies ruins homecoming!

It's not everyday that I just pick up a book based off of the coverart. The cute title definitely piqued my interest and I'm glad it caught my eye because this was one book I really enjoyed from start to finish. There aren't enough zombie books out there for the young adult audience and You Are So Undead to Me definitely delivers the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to walking corpses. The world of Zombie Settlers is a little wobbly as a whole but with more books in the series on the way I think we'll get a stronger foundation of the what, where, who, and why of the group who settles the undead.

Megan is a likable girl with basic aspirations your average teen girl might be after. She and her best friend work on their dance routines for cheerleading try-outs, she crushes on the hot senior football player and just wants to have a hot date for the homecoming dance. Much like another urban fantasy heroine, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, she really doesn't want the responsibilities she's been given. Thus she makes some bad decisions, mistakes and yep, she pays for them. There were some really good didn't-see-that-coming plot twists and plenty of action to keep a less-enthusiast reader entertained.

Overall, I really adored this book. It was fun, humorous and a little dark. Jay blended great elements to make a story teens will love and adults can enjoy too. (A note to parents: this one was pretty clean, not a lot of bad language and just kissing if you're looking into it for a younger reader). (less)

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Oct 23, 2012 Rita rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I didn't like the beginning at all..I was just plain bored, but after a few chapters the Settler business got pretty interesting and I was pretty much hooked.

I thought that the premise about a teenage girl being a shrink to recently deceased people was pretty much awesome, although I thought that there wasn't enough about those kind of cases.

There was more teenage drama and Reanimated Corpses, short: RC's, and boy drama of course.

But I still liked the story as well as the characters.

I liked the...more

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Mar 22, 2010 Litbitchbaby rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010, fantasy, pbook, romance, young-adult, urban-fantasy

You Are So Undead to Me is one of those books I really wanted to love. And, in a lot of ways, I did. It has Zombies, a "chosen" one and secret organizations that protect us from the things that go bump in the night.

And it kinda reminds me of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which has my undying love. And not just cause the cover is playing off the movie poster.

I liked Megan. She was slightly shallow and made some bad choices but she comes off as normal teenage girl who just wants to get on the dance te...more

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Nov 04, 2012 Heather (HeadshotHeather) rated it 5 of 5 stars

Looking for a lighthearted, entertaining and quirky read? Then You Are So Undead to Me is just what you are looking for. This book does seem more geared more toward the female audience, not saying gentlemen readers might not enjoy it,but it definitely has the Buffy the Vampire Slayer vibe going.

You Are So Undead to Me is filled with humor, suspense, romance, friendship, witchcraft and, oh yeah, ZOMBIES. Megan Berry is you typical everyday teenager. She wants to be popular, to date and do girly s...more

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Jan 08, 2012 Emily rated it 4 of 5 stars

You Are So Undead to Me is Stacey Jay's debut novel and I loved it!! The main character Megan Berry was so much fun and I couldn't wait to see what happened to her next. She was a zombie fighter with heart!

Jay's novel follows the life of Megan as she settles back into her life as a Zombie Settler, a group of people who act as shrinks for the dead. Megan had all but lost her powers at a young age due to a horrific attack and she's not too happy to have them back. Now Zombies are ruining her dates...more

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Stacey Jay is a recovering workaholic (or at least working hard at recovering) with three pen names, two small children, and a passion for playing pretend for a living. She’s been a full time mom-writer since 2005 and can't think of anything she'd rather be doing. Her former careers include theatre performer, professional dancer, poorly paid C-movie actress, bartender, waiter, math tutor (for real...more

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