Algonquin “Ali” Rhodes, the high school newspaper’s music critic, meets an intriguing singer, Doug, while reviewing a gig. HeR...
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Feb 07, 2012
Nancy
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I remember coming across this book on Thomas' shelf and briefly thought about picking it up at the library. The title, cover, and Thomas’ lukewarm review made me decide to give it a pass. Now that I’ve discovered OverDrive and am in the mood for zombie stories, I decided to give this book a chance and borrowed the e-version. Though I still had my doubts after looking at the cheesy cover, I pressed on. I finished the story in one day and was surprised by how funny, sweet and smart it was.
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Oct 05, 2010
Katie M.
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WARNING: You are about to read my severe rant about one character. If you want to skip that and read all the OTHER reasons I hate the book, feel free to skip it. :]
It took me roughly five minutes to realize that I hate Alley Rhodes.
She begins the book as a witty individual, filled to the brim with awesome jokes and coolness and common sense that made me like her, but as the book progressed into chapter two, she quickly became a doey eyed fool for Doug, the "goth" who s More...
It took me roughly five minutes to realize that I hate Alley Rhodes.
She begins the book as a witty individual, filled to the brim with awesome jokes and coolness and common sense that made me like her, but as the book progressed into chapter two, she quickly became a doey eyed fool for Doug, the "goth" who s More...
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Jun 05, 2011
Faye
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It was good and it was refreshing since it was different not on the paranormal genre but on how the author presented his storyline and how he ended things. I think that he had made a one hell of a good ending and it was amazing even if Alley didn't get her happily ever after with Doug because she did learn a lot in the short span of time they were together and make her appreciate life even more and lessen her cynicism (I just felt it was an appropriate word) because she doesn't want to be attach
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Dec 13, 2010
Lisarenee
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Okay, I read this book because of our discussion on whether or not authors could cross a line when redefining a supernatural creature. A zombie/human relationship is the one we felt would cross that line with the Eew factor. So in the name of research I read this book. :)
The Good - I liked the message at the end which was don't take life for granted. Don't throw it away and enjoy it for the incredible gift it is. Plus, there was quite a bit of humor added in and this was not meant to b More...
The Good - I liked the message at the end which was don't take life for granted. Don't throw it away and enjoy it for the incredible gift it is. Plus, there was quite a bit of humor added in and this was not meant to b More...
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May 15, 2011
Jillian -always aspiring-
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(Just a note: I am going to apologize beforehand for the fact that, after you read this review, you will likely have Katy Perry's song, "I Kissed a Girl, and I Liked It," stuck in your head for a while. You have been warned.)
I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It was a surprising read for me. I expected it to be a parody on many things wrong with the paranormal romance trend post-Twilight -- and it is. But it's more than that too. In some ways, it left me with feelings simil More...
I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It was a surprising read for me. I expected it to be a parody on many things wrong with the paranormal romance trend post-Twilight -- and it is. But it's more than that too. In some ways, it left me with feelings simil More...
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Jun 29, 2011
Lindsey
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I saw this as I was cataloging books at the library, and it was an intriguing title, so I looked at the summary on the cover. And the summary hinted that there would be lots of fun poked at the Twilight-style vampires, so I just had to look inside. And Alley's voice and the premise--vampires and zombies "come out of the coffin" (snort) and hang around high school to pick up girls--intrigued me. So I ignored the gazillion wholesome, soul-nourishing books I was reading at the moment, cat
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Mar 25, 2011
Jay
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From what I can tell, this author takes pop culture references (I Kissed a Girl by Katy Perry as an example) and puts them with a supernatural twist, thus this title.
This book suffers from Indecisive Parody syndrome. It starts off as a real kick in the pants for Twilight and its fans. Girls want an undead boyfriend, but others gently (or seriously) mock them. Alley starts out as a somewhat anti-Bella. People don't like her (though this seems to be an informed attribute) and she can't More...
This book suffers from Indecisive Parody syndrome. It starts off as a real kick in the pants for Twilight and its fans. Girls want an undead boyfriend, but others gently (or seriously) mock them. Alley starts out as a somewhat anti-Bella. People don't like her (though this seems to be an informed attribute) and she can't More...
Feb 05, 2011
cecilia
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I had really hoped to love I Kissed A ZOMBIE if only for its title which totally rocks out and its theme song "I Thought He Was A Goth" (see music player below). But sadly the story fell a little too short - lots of potential loving, but I needed more..."oomph" I guess. Not enough of that high school drama, doomed romance, head-butts with the popular crowd, etc. It was there, don't get me wrong, I just thought there would be more of it! I know, I could be easily demented and
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Dec 18, 2010
Nina
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I don't like paranormal fiction much, I respected Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, but I just don't get Twilight. I did, however, loved Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, but only because I thought it was brash, crude, and not at all romantic. Which is, in my opinion, everything that Twilight and most other paranormal fiction out there are. I've got nothing against that type of genre, it just does not appeal to my taste, and I think I'm one of those people who can't stand the fact that the undea
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Dec 01, 2010
Mundie Moms & Mundie Kids
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Adam delivers world in which vampires, werewolves, and zombies are accepted in everyday life. I liked the world he created. At the high school Alley goes to, the creatures of the night are walking right beside her and sit next to her in her classes and at lunch. To quickly become popular, all you have to do is date the undead.
Alley is dealing with her last year of high school and can't wait to get out of town and head to college in Seattle. She writes for the school newspaper and is t More...
Alley is dealing with her last year of high school and can't wait to get out of town and head to college in Seattle. She writes for the school newspaper and is t More...
Oct 28, 2010
Chibineko
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I picked up a copy of this the other day, looking for something cute & brainless (ha!) to read. After flipping through the first few pages, I knew I had a winner when it had me chuckling out loud.
The dead walk among us... and they're kind of emo jerks. Teenager Algonquin AKA "Alley the Ice Queen" is overly negative & pessimistic when it comes to love & life in general. She'd rather love `em & leave `em, then sit on the sidelines with her friends & mock the so-called "p More...
The dead walk among us... and they're kind of emo jerks. Teenager Algonquin AKA "Alley the Ice Queen" is overly negative & pessimistic when it comes to love & life in general. She'd rather love `em & leave `em, then sit on the sidelines with her friends & mock the so-called "p More...
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Oct 11, 2010
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Alley has a reputation as an "ice queen": she is cold and her remarks sting like falling icicles. When she is assigned to write a review on a new band, she writes her usual frosty review and submits it--before she hears Doug, a guest vocalist, perform. Her interest in his talent blooms into a crush and she begins dating him despite his weird medical condition: he's undead. He's eternally seventeen, has to drink embalming fluid to stay lubricated, and if unchecked, could give into a cra
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Sep 19, 2010
Jordan
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The funny parts of this book were a smokescreen for some interesting commentary on society, young girls and self-esteem. Post-humans (vampires, werewolves and zombies) came to light three years prior, when the narrator Ally was a high school freshman. Now she's a senior itching to leave Des Moines for college in Seattle. She's not only too cool to be flattered by boys, she's too cool to get caught up in the vapid vampire-love hysteria that's flooded every other teenaged girl on the planet.
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Sep 01, 2010
Myhotstylist
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This book was just kind of OK for me. The writing syle was terrible, and the plotline was unbelieveable at times. Ally is a mean girl. I didnt like any of the characters at all. It sais the reading level for this book is ages 9-12, but theres tons of refereances to sex and alcohol. I suppose i figured out the moral of this book is to live life to the fullest because you never know when it will end... or perhapps, accepting people for who they are.... or even not to buil More...
This book was just kind of OK for me. The writing syle was terrible, and the plotline was unbelieveable at times. Ally is a mean girl. I didnt like any of the characters at all. It sais the reading level for this book is ages 9-12, but theres tons of refereances to sex and alcohol. I suppose i figured out the moral of this book is to live life to the fullest because you never know when it will end... or perhapps, accepting people for who they are.... or even not to buil More...
Jul 31, 2010
Mei
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I chose to read this book based on the title. It's a good title. Why would you not want to read a story about kissing a zombie?
The story follows Alley during her first love, who just happens to turn out to be a zombie. Alley has a great, rounded personality and manages to keep a slight grasp on reality even while in the throws of puppy love, which is very difficult.
Even though the book was short enough to be classified a short story in my book, it actually managed to touch me. It bro More...
The story follows Alley during her first love, who just happens to turn out to be a zombie. Alley has a great, rounded personality and manages to keep a slight grasp on reality even while in the throws of puppy love, which is very difficult.
Even though the book was short enough to be classified a short story in my book, it actually managed to touch me. It bro More...
Jun 23, 2010
Robert
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Adam Selzer, I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It (Delacorte, 2010)
Man, this book had two and a half strikes against it before I even picked it up. It's obviously titled to capitalize on the success of Katy Perry's song “I Kissed a Girl” as well as the current undead-teen-novel craze (which brings up the question in my head of whether Katy Perry is actually alive, but we won't go there right now). But it hit my TBR list nonetheless, and on the same day, my wife picked it up at random at t More...
Man, this book had two and a half strikes against it before I even picked it up. It's obviously titled to capitalize on the success of Katy Perry's song “I Kissed a Girl” as well as the current undead-teen-novel craze (which brings up the question in my head of whether Katy Perry is actually alive, but we won't go there right now). But it hit my TBR list nonetheless, and on the same day, my wife picked it up at random at t More...
Apr 21, 2010
Sarai
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This book was supposed to be funny, but at times I found it to be working too hard to amuse. The heroine was kind of annoying, and not in a good way. And she is supposed to be really smart but she doesn't realize at first that the guy she likes is a zombie? There were nods to Twilight (the book) and Titanic (the movie), among others, but they almost seemed too wink-wink-nudge-nudge, ha-ha-aren't-I-amusing.
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May 29, 2010
Countrygirl_TN
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First of all, I would really give this 3 1/2 stars if I could , but I can't so I rounded up:)
Ally Rhodes and her friends- Marie, Sadie, and Trinity- are known as the "Vicious Circle" at her school, Cornersville Trace High. They run the paper there which is actually not a paper, but a blog. Ally is personally known as the Ice Queen of the Vicious Circle cause she is always mean and has bad comments to say about everyone. So Ally and her friends are invited to the Cage to re More...
Ally Rhodes and her friends- Marie, Sadie, and Trinity- are known as the "Vicious Circle" at her school, Cornersville Trace High. They run the paper there which is actually not a paper, but a blog. Ally is personally known as the Ice Queen of the Vicious Circle cause she is always mean and has bad comments to say about everyone. So Ally and her friends are invited to the Cage to re More...
Jun 30, 2011
Karen
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“That’s what we’re living in, by the way, according to all the news blogs. The early post-human era. I suppose it beats living in the disco era.” - Algonquin Rhodes
Alley Rhodes has no interest in dating the undead, which makes her something of an anomaly in her suburban Iowa high school. Ever since that thing with Megamart and the zombies, when the rest of the post-humans rose up and came out of the coffin in protest, most teen girls have been all about the dead guys. You remember More...
Apr 18, 2011
Kym
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I decided that it was time to take a short break from vampires, demons, witches and werewolves so instead thought zombies could be cool. I really enjoyed this book it was quick and easy to read and also had a good message hidden in there. The ending was not what I expected at all but was rather perfect.
Where Alley lives everyone knows about vampires as they all came out of hiding a long time ago. Alley hates all the vampires and all their followers and loves mocking them whenever she More...
Where Alley lives everyone knows about vampires as they all came out of hiding a long time ago. Alley hates all the vampires and all their followers and loves mocking them whenever she More...
Aug 21, 2010
Ashley
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With the whole Twilight craze the world is in, I was glad to see a book about something other then vampires and werewolves (don’t get me wrong I love vamps!). This book has a in your face comedic tone courtesy of the main character Ally. Just by reading the first page of the book, I was quickly intrigued and wished that Ally (and the rest of the vicious circle) were my friend (you know, if they weren’t fictional characters). When you first meet Doug, like Ally I was captivated by him. His quiet
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Jan 03, 2012
Kate
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Cornersville Trace will never be the same, now that the Vampires have come out of the closet and freed the Zombies working for Megamart along the way. Alley, our acid young music-loving, newspaper-contributing protagonist falls for a Zombie and has to struggle with life choices as a result. Selzer has found his voice (a little mean, music-loving, vaguely supernatural) but although Alley's dilemmas would never have worked if she were a he, she reads like a male character for much of the book (a
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Aug 18, 2010
SnowyAngel
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Algonquin never wanted anything to do with the undead post-humans who have finally come out of hiding and revealed their existence. However, when she met Doug things changed. She felt herself falling hard for this goth, who is not really a goth but indeed a zombie!
This is one of the strangest paranormal romances I have had the experience of reading. Part serious, part satirical, this book honestly confused me. The characters were not drawn out well enough for the reader to really sy More...
This is one of the strangest paranormal romances I have had the experience of reading. Part serious, part satirical, this book honestly confused me. The characters were not drawn out well enough for the reader to really sy More...
Jun 12, 2011
Virginie.V
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J'ai été déçue dès que j'ai eu le livre en mains, en le voyant je me suis dis "Virginie achète toi dès maintenant un autre livre, celui ci ne va te faire qu'une matinée!". C'est bien ce qui s'est passé, il est beaucoup beaucoup trop court!!
L'histoire est originale, l'auteur se moque des romances vampire/humaine par l'intermédiaire de son héroïne Alley (ou Gonk selon son état d'esprit). Cette dernière est plutôt sympathique, dotée d'un humour tranchant, elle n'hésite pas à s'af More...
L'histoire est originale, l'auteur se moque des romances vampire/humaine par l'intermédiaire de son héroïne Alley (ou Gonk selon son état d'esprit). Cette dernière est plutôt sympathique, dotée d'un humour tranchant, elle n'hésite pas à s'af More...
Apr 25, 2011
Vinaya
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Okay, to be honest, I might never have picked up this book, if Adam Selzer had not been such a huge supporter of The Book Lantern. And what a mistake that would have been!
Reading reviews for this book, I am shocked by the number of people who simply don't get what this book is about — a trend I have found disturbingly common in YA satire. Spoofs? No problem, every one knows when to laugh, and at what, so they're still considered witty and amusing. Satire? Not so much. Similarly to Bumped More...
Reading reviews for this book, I am shocked by the number of people who simply don't get what this book is about — a trend I have found disturbingly common in YA satire. Spoofs? No problem, every one knows when to laugh, and at what, so they're still considered witty and amusing. Satire? Not so much. Similarly to Bumped More...
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Apr 19, 2010
Katieb (MundieMoms)
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Adam delivers world in which vampires, werewolves, and zombies are accepted in everyday life. I liked the world he created. At the high school Alley goes to, the creatures of the night are walking right beside her and sit next to her in her classes and at lunch. To quickly become popular, all you have to do is date the undead.
Alley is dealing with her last year of high school and can't wait to get out of town and head to college in Seattle. She writes for the school newspaper and is More...
Alley is dealing with her last year of high school and can't wait to get out of town and head to college in Seattle. She writes for the school newspaper and is More...
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Mar 10, 2010
Kelly
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Anyway other than me speaking of the boys all the time, let me get back on track. The storyline was good could have had more details to it, but it was enough to get the point across. I would’ve liked the book to have some kind of present and past thing, get to know Doug’s past before his resurrection into Zombie-hood. I would have also gone into a bit of detail about the whole Megamart situation as well when the Vampires and Zombies came out. The reason for that is so we have enough background.
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Jan 21, 2010
Deborah
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This book was a delight on just about every level. It brilliantly satirized the supernatural romance genre AND the "high school musical" crowd with clever shrewdness and skewering one-liners, yet it never lost its heart or poignancy. The protagonist, Alley Rhodes is accessible and identifiable, and yet she has a strong character that refuses to be submerged into bland romantic impulses. Through her journey Alley explores different aspects of her own personality, much as any teen-ager d
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Apr 15, 2010
Thomas
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I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked it is about strangely named Algonquin "Alley" Rhodes, who so happens to have kissed a zombie - and liked it. She can't help but fall for Doug, the uncolored, unchanging, undead zombie of a hunk who might just be able to thaw her out from her ice queen identity. Of course, the structured society of her school doesn't exactly agree with their relationship - so they'll have to fight to keep it alive.
To put it blatantly, this book was nothing but More...
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Jun 22, 2010
Sarah
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Heehee....I'm still giggling about this quick little zombie read. It's nice to read books that make me giggle! Example from page 14:
"The bulk of the crowd is made up of girls who are clearly hoping to become Will's One True Love (or at least his prom date). They're walking around flashing smiles that show no cavities and wearing clothes the nearly do show a couple of them."
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"The bulk of the crowd is made up of girls who are clearly hoping to become Will's One True Love (or at least his prom date). They're walking around flashing smiles that show no cavities and wearing clothes the nearly do show a couple of them."
Example from page 128: "The first clue that they aren't very bright is that not one o More...
