Blog Tour + Review + #Giveaway: Undead Ultra (A Zombie Novel) by Camille Picott @camillepicott @XpressoTours

Undead Ultra (A Zombie Novel) by Camille Picott
Publication date: April 7th 2016
Genres: Adult, Post-Apocalyptic, Zombies

Synopsis:

Undead: a reanimated corpse with a craving for human flesh.

Ultramarathon: any footrace longer than a traditional marathon (26.2 miles).

For ultrarunners Kate and Frederico, a typical Saturday morning is spent pounding out a twenty- to thirty-mile “fun run.” It’s during one of their runs that an insidious illness descends upon northern California, turning humans into flesh-shredding zombies.

When Kate receives a desperate call from her son, Carter, she and Frederico flee their hometown and set out to help him. The only problem? Carter attends college over two hundred miles away and the freeways—clogged with car wrecks, zombies, and government blockades—are impassable. Running back roads and railroad tracks becomes their only means of travel, but neither of them has ever run so far before.

As pain, injuries, hunger, and fatigue plague them, getting to Carter and staying alive seem impossible. It’s either outrun the undead or become one of them, and for Kate, death is not an option.

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My Review:

Kate and her best friend Frederico are ultrarunners. What are ultrarunners you might ask? Well I did. I had never heard of an “ultrarunners” before. Well in case you don’t know an ultrarunner is someone who runs 26.2 miles or more. Kate and Frederico have been running for years and have participated in a quiet a few Ultramarathons.

On the day that the zombie virus hits town Kate and Frederico leave. Kate gets a call from her son Carter who is away at college. Carter is trapped by the zombies and sees no way out at the moment. When Kate hears that her baby needs her she takes off to help him. Hey her baby is trouble and so mama bear is on the way.

So Kate and Frederico decide that the best way of transportation would be to go on foot since they are ultrarunners and have trained for this day for many years at least since Carter was a baby or maybe before. They decide the best route is to take the train tracks. Fewer zombies and more secluded.

Kate and Frederico figure that it is about two hundred miles to where Carter is going to school. Two hundred miles to an ultrarunner isn’t that big a deal. They are used to putting in about one hundred miles or more a week. It shouldn’t take them but a few days at the most. They just need to keep hydrated and refuel often, piece of cake right; wrong, not if you run into the undead and the living as well along the way.

Kate and Frederico are very resourceful and run into a little trouble on the journey with the undead and the living. There are times I wasn’t sure if they were going to make it out alive but they would prevail some way or another. I loved some of their ways of taking “care” of the undead. Sometimes I would cry and sometimes I would need a tissue or two. But I am so very glad that I decided to read Undead Ultra. I learned a lot about running and about life itself as well.

I love reading zombie books and Undead Ultra ranks right up there on the very top of my number one list of zombie books. Undead Ultra has stayed with me long after I finished it. I even remembered Kate and Frederico’s names. Honestly which I really hate to admit I do have a problem remembering characters names and have to look back through the book to find them when writing my reviews. Sorry guys.  I am going to have to give the author Camille Picott kudos for Undead Ultra is one of the best books I think I have ever read. It is very well written and the characters are well developed. Undead Ultra is on my top ten books of 2016. I am anxiously waiting the next book in the series or at least I hope there is a next book. 

AUTHOR BIO:

Camille Picott has been writing novels since she was twelve. When she’s not working on a book, spending time with family, or whipping up a new vegetarian meal, you can find her trail running in Sonoma County, California.

Author Links:

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