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My Zombie Valentine (Dark Ones #4.5 (Bring Out Your Dead))

by Katie MacAlister (Goodreads Author), Angie Fox (Goodreads Author), Marianne Mancusi, Lisa Cach

3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 · rating details · 753 ratings · 66 reviews

Four women who are about to dig up the truth!

Tired of boyfriends who drain you dry? Sick of guys who stay out all night howling at the moon? You can do better. Some men want you not only for your body, but your brains. Especially your brains.
It's true! There are men out there who care--early-rising, down-to-earth, indefatigable men who'll follow you for miles. They'll take...more

Mass Market Paperback, 360 pages

Published January 31st 2010 by Leisure Books (first published December 18th 2009)

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Dec 26, 2009 Ann aka Iftcan rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Katie MacCalister fans, Lisa Cach fans, humour lovers

Ok, first of all--a word of warning. The Katie MacCalister story in this book is a reprint. Never having read anything by the other authors that I'm aware of, I can't tell if they are also reprints.

Having gotten THAT out of the way. . .

I still enjoyed the Katie MacCalister story. But to properly enjoy it, you do need to have at least a basic familiarity with her Dark Ones series. Many of the same types of characters also show up in her 2 Dragon series also.

The Angie Fox story I had a hard time g...more

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Feb 03, 2013 Chandra rated it 2 of 5 stars

Did no one else want ACTUAL zombie valentines? Like, some protagonist decides that they love a zombie, but the zombie just sits there and drools, and he/she shows the zombie to friend and says, "This is my Valentine!"
And the friend says, "That's a zombie. Is it even capable of sentient thought?"
And the zombie says, "Brains!"
And the protagonists says, "YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND OUR LOVE! COME ON ZOMBIE!" and then they run away in a flood of tears.
Now, I know that it would be hard to come up with...more

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Apr 19, 2010 Leslie Jane Fahrney rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, paranormal

Zombies are not what I usually consider Romance characters, but they work here. Most of the Zombies are not the typical flesh-eating types, and it is fun to see how the various authors handle a icon not normally thought of as "good" guys. And there are humourous parts in each story.

Katie MacAlister's Bring Out Your Dead is related to her Dark Ones series and the Zombies are secondary characters, trying to be vegetarians. Did enjoy the one who wanted to eat flesh. Poor Guy.

Angie Fox's Gentlemen P...more

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Apr 11, 2010 Jan rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: paranormal romance - vampire lovers

Shelves: katie-macalister, paranormal-romance

Ok, first of all---- The Katie Macalister story in this book is a reprint. I bought the hardback edition from the science fiction book club thinking it was a new short story by Katie. As I'm a major fan girl of the author it turned out alright as now I have a hardback edition of the story. Anyway, never having read any of the other authors, I can't tell if they are also reprints.

Having gotten THAT out of the way . . .

I still enjoyed reading the Katie Macalister story (Bring out your Dead) agai...more

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Dec 19, 2011 Lilli Perspice rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: paranormal

After reading My Life As a White Trash Zombie, I knew that “zombies” and “love” could actually coexist in a good novel. Unfortunately, the first three stories in this collection were a big disappointment to me, but the last story, Every Part of You, was what the first three tried, and failed, to be—a light-hearted, fun, sexy romp.

Bring Out Your Dead: 1.5 stars. About the only fun things here were the zombies (apparently only there for comic relief) and a vampire boy named Damian who seemed to k...more After reading My Life As a White Trash Zombie, I knew that “zombies” and “love” could actually coexist in a good novel. Unfortunately, the first three stories in this collection were a big disappointment to me, but the last story, Every Part of You, was what the first three tried, and failed, to be—a light-hearted, fun, sexy romp.

Bring Out Your Dead: 1.5 stars. About the only fun things here were the zombies (apparently only there for comic relief) and a vampire boy named Damian who seemed to know better than the adults what the hell was going on. The male love interest was actually a vampire. Instalove abounded to where even the main character commented on how impossible it was over the span of a few hours to then love someone beyond life itself. The ending was murky, unclear, and smacked of deus ex machina. Oh, and Sally’s mangling of both English and French seemed to serve no purpose other than to annoy me and remind me how little I remember of my high school French classes. I found myself skimming her every line, not even looking for any kind of meaning, just wanting to move past the painful dialogue.

Gentlemen Prefer Voodoo: 1.5 stars. This one started out better. I don’t know much about voodoo, so I was interested to even get a ficitionalized version of it here. Isoke the Kongamato reminded me a little of Mushu the dragon from Disney’s Mulan (a point in this story’s favor, in case you were wondering). When Amie accidentally summons up a zombie instead of a real man when she does a spell looking for love, I thought, this could be fun. Sadly, it quickly was reduced to the back and forth trope-ish denied romance of two whiny, misunderstood characters. And after reading about “ribbons of pleasure” shooting through our heroine one too many times, I skimmed to the end, only to find a scene right out of Star Wars where the princess breathlessly proclaims “I love you” and her scoundrel love interest says hoarsely, “I know.” *sigh* Princess Leia and Han Solo did it sooo much better.

Zombiewood Confidential: 2 stars. This story at least didn’t take itself too seriously. It takes place on an island/movie set where a zombie movie is being produced by Romeo George (I know, I groaned at it too). A makeup artist with serious self-esteem issues gets tangled up with the movie’s leading man, whom she has secretly crushed on, like, O-M-G, her entire life! I got pretty pissy when she described herself as a toad and her love interest as a Hollywood prince, but when she flipped to thinking of him bitterly as a womanizer for coming onto her, I decided that she was likely bipolar and probably needed medication. Each chapter was told mainly either from Scarlet’s point of view or Mason’s, though occasionally their inner thoughts were put in the wrong chapter, making me wonder if each of them was secretly psychic, thus making their loud proclamations of loving each other after just a few short hours together more likely. I mean, if you can read minds, you don’t need all that messy relationship stuff like dating and getting to know each other, right?

Every Part of You: 4 stars. Take a male love interest who blurts out everything wrong and a female love interest who doesn’t have Hollywood big boobs, a perfect nose, or a small hind end; add in a plastic surgeon intent on saving the rain forest at any cost, a hot love scene on a boat, and a bunch of zombies screaming for chocolate rather than brains, and you have Every Part of You. Even though this story also had some parts that made my shrivel-hearted, anti-romance self groan a little, I still loved it. The characters were real people, the mystery was fun (and gross), and I am really glad I stuck it out to find this gem at the end.(less)

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May 15, 2012 Cindy rated it 4 of 5 stars

I LOVE contests...you enter...you hope you'll win, and when you do, you do the happy dance all over the place :) Angie Fox was cleaning off her bookshelves and offered this jewel up for grabs. I WON!!! I don't know why I had not added this gem to my library, but it's there now and I was not disappointed. We all have been watching Zombie flicks for, well, FOREVER! Here are four stories about zombies in a different context. What if they don't eat brrraaaiiinnnss? What if all they want is a chance...more

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Sep 01, 2011 Taylor rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

When i first picked this book up i thought it was going to be really boring and hard to get through because all the characters were in their 20's (and the last book i had similar to this one was so boring i couldnt even get through it.) so i definitely went into this book with doubts about it. I pushed myself to at least read the first two chapters of each one. I'M SO GLAD I DID!!! Two chapters was all it needed to grip you and get really interesting. without a doubt this has become one of my fa...more

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Aug 31, 2010 Shannon rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Jan 01, 2010 Katy-Del rated it 3 of 5 stars

I had to grab a book at the grocery store because it is very slow at work on the holiday. I was pleased to find a Katie Macalister story I hadn't read.

Katie's story revolves around characters we have already met in previous Dark Ones novels. I can't remember which books had Sebastion, Ysabelle, and Noelle. Sebastion is Adrian's twin. The story is a mini-story in the same vein as the Dark One novels. There's a little twist in the end that fits the book's theme. A madcap romp where the heroine in...more

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Oct 28, 2010 Vicky rated it 3 of 5 stars

My Zombie Valentine is a must read for those who seek humor in there love life. The Katie MacAlister story didn’t disappoint, William and his eating problem was pure comic genius.
Angie Fox delivered a cute tale of a voodoo, love and falling rats. Marianne Mancusi cooked up a fun tale of Zombie island, with an important take away: brains taste like chicken. And then there is the Lisa Cach story… One of the most enjoyable reads in this collection. Skiiiiittlesss. Junior Miiiints. You’ll LOL at th...more

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Aug 20, 2010 Megan rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: anthology, paranormal-romance

Bring Out Your Dead by Katie MacAlister- #5 in the Dark Ones series (re-issued from Just One Sip). 1 star. I have tried a two different Katie MacAlister books, and haven't been able to get through either. Her writing style just isn't for me. I'm glad other people enjoy her books, I just have a hard time with them... to me they don't come off as funny.

Gentlemen Prefer Voodoo by Angie Fox- 2 stars. Tried too hard to be funny, and just below average characters/plot.

Zombiewood Confidential by Marian...more

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Oct 23, 2010 Amy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy-fiction, paranormal-playthings

Okay, first of all, let me say that I've wanted to read this book for sometime. It has a great short story from the Dark Ones - if you follow Katie MacAlister's series. In fact, each of the short stories was really well-done. I like the premise they all used in regards to the zombies, but it may not be for everyone. I can honestly say that even after having read about Vegetarian Vampires, it hadn't occured to me to think of other paranormal creatures with the same issues.

Definitely something to...more

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Dec 30, 2011 Dizzy Squid rated it 2 of 5 stars

I skipped over the first two stories after the first chapters. The magical is just not for me. I gave up on the last story when it delved into the silly - if you're gonna do zombies, do zombies and don't cute it up, especially after making the reader wait for the actual zombies.

The third story by Marianne Mancusi was a treat, though, with quite a few laugh out loud moments. The image of a hero fighting zombies with his tiny little dog strapped to his body was fantastic and puts Mancusi's name o...more

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Apr 10, 2011 Michelle rated it 3 of 5 stars

I thought that I would like these stories, especially the one by Katie MacAlister since I have read many of her books and liked them, but I can't help but feel disappointed. The stories just didn't interest me that much. That is, the only one that I like from the book is, Gentlemen Prefer Voodoo by Angie Fox. Her idea for the story and the characters themselves seemed very original and liked it a great deal.The other two stories I could barely get through and I really have no comments for them....more

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Feb 07, 2010 Fiction State Of Mind (Kai Charles) rated it 3 of 5 stars

I usually have a love/hate relationship with anthologies. When I saw this one I couldn't resist my zombie love is too strong!! :)

Bring Out Your Dead by Katie Macallister:

This story had a great start zombie(sorry! revenat) counsler Ysabelle leaves for a lucrative tutoring session and finds her self facing Demons,a dangerous little boy called damian and her possible vampire soulmate! I became a little lost in the middle of this story, The zombies kind of took a back seat to the boloved/soulmate...more I usually have a love/hate relationship with anthologies. When I saw this one I couldn't resist my zombie love is too strong!! :)

Bring Out Your Dead by Katie Macallister:

This story had a great start zombie(sorry! revenat) counsler Ysabelle leaves for a lucrative tutoring session and finds her self facing Demons,a dangerous little boy called damian and her possible vampire soulmate! I became a little lost in the middle of this story, The zombies kind of took a back seat to the boloved/soulmate theme with the exception of a few great zombie oneliners. The universe Ysabelle inhabits is interesting but very established and unfamiliar to me since I haven't read any other of Katie's books.

Gentlemen Prefer Voodoo by Angie Fox

This was my favorite story in the book and a great example of how well a story can work in an anthology.

Amie is the magical propriter of a magic shop called vodoo works. She spends her days sharing her gifts with unsuspecting shoppers and her nights alone. She casts a powerful spell and literally unearths the handsome Dante Monttenegro who shows up at her dorstep wearing nothing more than a smile. Dante and Amie are wonderful characters strong willed and very well matched. This story captured my intreat and made me very interested in reading more from Angie Fox.

Zombiewood Confidential by Marianne Mancus
Scarlet is a struggling Hollywood make up artist who gets the chance to work on a romote island shoot of the latest zombie flick by director Romeo George (great play on words!) add her celebrity crush Mason Marks and zombies and you get a fun hollywood spoof.

Every Part of You by Lisa Cach
Angelica is visiting her rooomates new boss for some minor plastic surgey on some acne scars and falls into the sorid plans of Dr Velazquez. This story had some very funny elements, Zombies who crave caaaarbbss! :) and also one very hot love scene!

A bit of a mixed bag in this book but also so very enjoyable moments.

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Feb 04, 2010 Tori smexys_sidekick rated it 3 of 5 stars

The first story: Bring Out Your Dead by Katie MacAlister offshoots her Dark Souls series. I have never read that series but it sparked my interest in to check them out. Pretty good. The zombies are funny.

The second story: Gentlemen Prefer Voodoo by Angie Fox deals with an unlucky at love voodoo queen and the zombie who is determined to share "love magic" with her till the end of time.
The romance is sweet and the characters endearing. The little dragon? pet is adorable and quite wise. :P

In Zombie...more

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Mar 22, 2013 Gretchen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: zombies, paranormal, paranormal-romance, short-story, creatures, fiction, magic, romance, science-fiction

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I wish Goodreads allowed half stars. This is really a 4 1/2 star collection of short stories. While none of the stories are without their flaws, generally due to the amount of ground that must be covered satisfactorily in the space of a short story, they are completely enjoyable.

Bring Out Your Dead by Katie MacCalister: My favorite story of the group, which surprised me because MacCalister tends to have a lighter, more comedic tone to her writing than what I normally enjoy. This story just worke...more

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Jul 27, 2011 Cynthia Eaton rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: paranormal-romance

I picked up this book at the local Wal-Mart because it was $1.99, and I seen Kate MacCalister's name as one of the contributing authors. I have been planning to read her Dark Ones series for a while now, but just haven't gotten around to it.

This is a book of 4 short, zombie-toned stories. The first story, Bring Out Your Dead (Kate MacCalister) was enjoyable. The story contains characters from her Dark Ones series. Although I haven't yet read this series, I didn't feel lost. The zombies were jus...more

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Aug 28, 2011 Barbara ★ rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: anthologies, zzcover-red, zombie, read-2011, paranormal-demons, paranormal-vampires, paranormal-witches-wizards

I always preface a review of an anthology by saying that I don't like anthologies. The stories are too short, have too much stuff crammed into them and little to zero character development. That said, this one was no different. I bought this book for the Katie MacAlister story and I didn't like it at all. This is a zombie anthology and most of the zombie elements in this story were extraneous to the story. I found most of the story to be irritating especially Sally with her bastardized Franglais...more

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Jan 19, 2011 Jenn rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: zombies, keep-in-library

I picked up this book because I am a fan of zombie movies and I thought the idea of zombie lovin' was hilarious. The book didn't quite live up to my expectations.
"Bring Out Your Dead" by Katie MacAlister is the first short story, and I don't understand why it was included. A vampire and a...I dunno, witch? Demon? What the hell was she? The story talked about her double soul, but never really said what she was. Her job was to counsel new transitioned zombies, but they got no love. Total bummer.
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Jan 24, 2010 Chrissy Wissler rated it 3 of 5 stars

This book is composed of four novellas from well known paranormal and steampunk writers with the common theme being love and zombies. For the most part, there's no falling in love with actual zombies - well, the traditional kind with limbs and such falling off. In fact, the closest these stories get to traditional zombie horror films is the third story by Marianne Mancusi, "Zombiewood Confidential" where they are actually on a film set and those zombie extras with all the makeup? Well they might...more

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Feb 16, 2010 Rhonda rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: reviewed

My Zombie Valentine is an anthology consisting of four paranormal romance novellas by four different authors. Each story has some kind of zombie element to it, although it may or may not be the main theme of the story. The book's title may lead some readers to believe it's actually framed around Valentine's Day, but there was only one reference in the whole book to the holiday that I can recall.

The first story, "Bring Out Your Dead", by Katie MacAlister, was previously published in another antho...more My Zombie Valentine is an anthology consisting of four paranormal romance novellas by four different authors. Each story has some kind of zombie element to it, although it may or may not be the main theme of the story. The book's title may lead some readers to believe it's actually framed around Valentine's Day, but there was only one reference in the whole book to the holiday that I can recall.

The first story, "Bring Out Your Dead", by Katie MacAlister, was previously published in another anthology, Just One Sip, that was themed all around vampires. So as you can guess, the novella combines both vampires and zombies. The main character of this story, Ysabelle, helps counsel newly formed zombies to get them adjusted to their "new life". Supporting characters include Sebastian, a vampire who claims that Ysabelle is his beloved, and Sally, Ysabelle's spirit guide who has an annoying habit of talking in Franglais, which is some horrid mix of English and French. As a fan of MacAlister's Dark Ones series I was looking forward to this short story, but unfortunately, it fell short compared to her full-length novels. It did have humorous moments and there was quite a bit of action, but it just didn't live up to my expectations of MacAlister's writing. Also, the character of Sally was rather frustrating, and I'm sure it's even worse for those that know even less of the French language than myself. Readers who aren't familiar with at least a little French will miss out on complete sections of conversation with no explanation of what was just said. I know that the character was tossed in to be funny, but if the readers don't understand what is going on, there really is no point in adding such a character.

My favorite novella in the anthology was "Gentleman Prefer Voodoo" by Angie Fox. In this story Amie, who runs a voodoo shop, is talked into going after love one more time. Instead of trying to search out Mr. Right the old-fashioned way, however, Amie decides to try her hand at a love spell. Unfortunately, the spell works a little too well. Mr. Right comes knocking at her door later that night all naked and covered in dirt after having been buried in the grave for hundreds of years. Amie is immediately attracted to the zombie, but yet, she is having a hard time wrapping her head around the fact that her soulmate is actually a zombie and she makes every attempt to reverse her spell to send him back to the grave. This story is absolutely hysterical! I loved Fox's dialogue between Amie and the zombie, especially in the scenes where she was trying to kill him. Another favorite scene was after Amie had sent him to get clothes and when he came back his clothes were so skin tight that she was still having trouble looking at him without getting so hot and bothered. I just thought Fox's style was very quirky! I had only had the pleasure of reading one other novel by Fox prior to this, and wasn't expecting to enjoy this story nearly as much as I did, but I'm definitely looking forward to reading more by Fox after this.

"Zombiewood Confidential" by Marianne Mancusi was the third story in this anthology. This is the story of Scarlett Patterson, who takes the job of being a makeup artist for a B-horror movie being produced by Romeo George (nice little tribute to George Romero there). While on the set, strange things start to happen and the zombie "extras" start getting a bit more into their character than is expected... even when the film isn't rolling. One even attempts to attack the lead of the movie, Mason Marks, who happens to be Scarlett's celebrity crush since she was a teenager. On top of that, lots of people have started disappearing from the set. What could possibly be causing all this chaos? I always enjoy Mancusi's works and this was no exception. She always tosses in little pop culture references, like the Romero thing mentioned above, which makes the story more personal to me when I catch them. Also, the romance that built between the makeup artist and the movie star in this particular story was so unlikely from the start that it was kind of like a fairy tale romance and I always enjoy those. They are sweet, yet while being chased by zombies... not as sweet as one would hope... damn those interruptions! The climax of the story and how the zombies ended up being destroyed in the end was absolutely brilliant! The thought process behind that was very creative... kudos to Mancusi for that idea. I will definitely continue reading books by her as they are released.

Last, but not least in this collection, was "Every Part of You" by Lisa Cach. This story started off with our two main characters, Angelica and Tom, meeting in a plastic surgeon's office. Angelica was having some minor surgery performed and while having it done the doctor offered to remove her worry lines for her free of charge by injecting Phi-Tox into her skin. Shortly thereafter there began being reports on the news of outbreaks of women majorly craving sugar, stores running out of ice cream, and pretty soon candy stores being broken into. Angelica, and new boyfriend Tom, end up investigating and determine that this "sugar-craving zombies" appear to be relating back somehow to the Phi-Tox injections and Angelica herself is in danger. When I first started reading this story I honestly wasn't sure where it was going. It seemed to just be going on about plastic surgery and how Angelica and Tom were getting together. Don't get me wrong, the story was cute, but it seemed like just a sweet little contemporary romance. I had no idea where the story was going! Then... the story took a crazy turn when Angelica and Tom had to go to the hospital and the women there were begging for their husband to get more "skiiiiittles" out of the vending machines and another's breast implant just plopped out right there on the floor! It went from sweet and funny to pure insanity! I hadn't ever read anything from Lisa Cach before, but if any of her other paranormal stories are as funny as this I will definitely need to check them out.

Overall I truly enjoyed this collection of four stories. I think all fans of the paranormal romance genre will. Highly Recommended!

Contains: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Sex

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Jul 29, 2011 Kim rated it 3 of 5 stars

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i didn't realize this wasn't just one book, but 4 short stories.... first story was different. had a lot more than zombies in it....also had demons, and spirits, and vampires....but it was interesting. second story, also interesting, didn't need the weird dragon character but kind of a cool take on the whole zombie thing.third story didn't have a love story with a zombie, but zombies mixed in a love story, still liked it the best so far though. the last one was a bit strange, especially the way...more

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Oct 05, 2012 Jessie Potts rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance, zombie

MacAlister writes about her Dark Ones world, while Fox writes about a voodoo zombie lover. Mancusi uses a Hollywood movie set for a zombie takeover, and Cach uses our culture's infatuation with plastic surgery as the gateway to zombies.

These were decent shorts, some had me laughing others had me smiling.

For more zombies and love check out HEA
http://www.usatoday.com/story/happyev...

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Mar 06, 2012 Jennelle rated it 3 of 5 stars

Ok here we go...
This book had four stories in it.
All with a very different take on zombies.
#1 Bring out your dead ~ Katie Macalister:
Strange to say the least. I didnt love it.
I didnt hate it. The zombie was one of the
main charters and she didnt eat peeps she
helped other zombies adjust to their being. 2 stars
#2 Gentlemen prefer voodoo ~ Angie Fox
Voodoo woman raises zombie to be her lover by accident.
He had a bad experience with love in life and she may
just break his heart again
I loved the fact...more

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Feb 15, 2011 Cindi (cheesygiraffe) rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-read, paperback

Amazingly this wasn't a Kindle book but an actual paperback. Shut the front door, right? LOL Only the 2nd book this year I read in print.

Anyway, this was a pretty decent anthology. They all had their good points. There bad points being that you can't fall in love in a few days and commit to somebody no matter how supernatural they are or aren't...
I liked "Zombiewood Confidential" by Marianne Mancusi the best because it was more gore and less love dovey. I know I'm reading a romance book but wha...more

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May 11, 2010 Lori Perkins rated it 4 of 5 stars

As the editor of HUNGRY FOR YOUR LOVE, I just had to read this. I was afraid it would be too much romance and not enough zombies, but it charmed and entertained me. Loved all 4 of the novellas, although the third one on a zombie movie set was so wonderfully tongue in cheek that I have to say it was my favorite. Each onedifferent and compelling.

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Jan 01, 2011 Ashley rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: zombies

This was basically dumb. 4 poorly written short stories for lonely women who like romance books. It had zombie in the title, so I was expecting it to be more action packed. But each story was about a curvy "real" woman with bad confidence who couldn't believe that this superhunk had fallen for them in just one day. Very blah. Only finished out of obligation, I hate to quit things. But, it was stooooopid.

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Jul 19, 2012 Kristin rated it 2 of 5 stars

This gets such a low rating, not because of the quality of writing, but because it out and out lies! The 4 stories in the book are not at all like the blurb teaser on the back. Which I found highly disappointing. The stories were rather boring and dull and it took me a very long time to read because of it.

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Aug 10, 2012 Michelle Leah Olson rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: to-be-reviewed, literal-addiction-books

One of the best anthos I've read in awhile!
All the stories were gripping & beautifully different, with just enough to string them together within the antho's commonality.
The creative genius in these shorts was delightful.
Dorchester put together a wonderful package with this one.
-Full review coming.

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For as long as she can remember, Katie MacAlister has loved reading. Growing up in a family where a weekly visit to the library was a given, Katie spent much of her time with her nose buried in a book. Despite her love for novels, she didn't think of writing them until she was contracted to write a non-fiction book about software. Since her editor refused to allow her to include either witty dialo...more

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