ZIA, The Teenage
Zombie & the Undead Diaries
by Angela
Scott
Release date: September 20th 2015
Summary from
Goodreads:
Zia would give
anything to be a typical teenager... again. Heck, she’d settle for being a
vampire or smelly werewolf, but a member of the walking dead? The lowliest of
all the monsters? No way! Nothing is worse than being a skin-sloughing,
limb-losing, maggot-housing, brain-craving undead girl. Nothing.
It wouldn’t be so bad if humans didn’t insist on “Living Impaireds” wearing
bands to keep their insatiable appetites in check. And if LIs want to coexist
with humans, then rules must be followed, no matter how ludicrous they might
seem. Why do undead teenagers have to go to high school anyway?
Zia does her best to blend in and go unnoticed, but when a new group of LIs are
bused in from another school and she finds herself part of a growing horde, all
bets are off.
Besides, rules are meant to be broken—especially when an unbeating heart is
pulled in two different directions.
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My Review:
My Review:
I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.
Zia is a teenager and now she is a zombie. You see Zia
was in an accident and her dad couldn’t handle his baby girl being gone so he
had a witch doctor bring her back from dead. So now she is a member of the
undead with body parts rotting and following off. Zia was a normal teenage girl
and like any other teenage girl she had her problems or so she thought until
she became a member of the undead society.
Zombies, vampires, werewolves ect… all live in the mix of
humans now and are known as the Living Impaired or LIs for short. There are
rules that they all must follow in order to live with the humans and they have
to wear bans either around their necks or wrist to keep them from wanting to
eat the humans. Oh and back to the rules they have to follow. The undead all
follow these rules even if they don’t like them well like all rules there are
consequences if they are not followed and they are definitely enforced. The
undead don’t want any part of these consequences either of course.
But like with everything there is always someone who
thinks they can do or get what they want or they think they are strong and can
break the rules and get by with it if they have enough people willing to back
them up. One of the vampires is going around trying to talk all of the Living
Impaired into standing up to the humans because they want to be at the top and
have all the power. They don’t like being controlled by the humans.
But like Zia not all of the Living Impaireds want
anything to do with breaking the rules. They just want to keep on living their
now normal lives. All Zia wants and can handle at the moment is just being a
zombie and worrying about the guys that want to be her boyfriend and take her
to the high school dance. She has enough to worry about with her new family
like her step-sister who can be a pain at times and then turn right around and
be sweet and help Zia when she needs it. But one good thing about having a new
step-sister is she also has a new step-mom who is a very sweet woman and treats
Zia as if she is still alive and not undead. She has never made Zia feel as if
she is gross or anything like that. She has tried to be the best mom to Zia as
she can be. And Zia loves her very much and never wants to hurt her step-mom,
dad or any of her friends, especially the human guy who likes and wants to be
her boyfriend.
This is not the
first book that I have read by Angela Scott and definitely won’t be the last. I
have 100% loved and enjoyed reading Zia, the Teenage Zombie and the Undead
Diaries. I would love to read more about Zia, her friends and her family. I
would also like to know some of the other Living Impaired’s history. Zia’s
heart may not beat anymore but she has one of the biggest hearts of any human
in the story.
About the Author:
I hear voices. Tiny fictional people sit on my shoulders and
whisper their stories in my ear. Instead of medicating myself, I decided to
pick up a pen, write down everything those voices tell me, and turn it into a
book. I’m not crazy. I’m an author.
For the most part, I write
contemporary Young Adult novels. However, through a writing exercise that
spiraled out of control, I found myself writing about zombies terrorizing the
Wild Wild West—and loving it. My zombies don’t sparkle, and they definitely
don’t cuddle. At least, I wouldn’t suggest it.
I live on the benches of the
beautiful Wasatch Mountains with two lovely children, one teenager, and a very
patient husband. I graduated from Utah State University with a B.A. degree in
English, not because of my love for the written word, but because it was the
only major that didn’t require math. I can’t spell, and grammar is my arch
nemesis. But they gave me the degree, and there are no take backs.
As a child, I never sucked on a
pacifier; I chewed on a pencil. I’ve been writing that long. It has only been
the past few years that I’ve pursued it professionally, forged relationships
with other like-minded individuals, and determined to make a career out of
it.
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