Seattle. One minute you're drinking a vanilla breve, the next, some creepy old dude is breathing on you, turning you into a zombie. And that's just for starters. Now, the recently deceased Amanda Feral is trying to make her way through Seattle's undead scene with style (mortuary-grade makeup, six-inch stilettos, Balenciaga handbag on sale) while satisfying her craving for human flesh (Don't judge. And no, not like chicken.) and decent vodkatinis.Making her way through a dangerous world of cloud-doped bloodsuckers, reapers, horny and horned devils, werewolves, celebrities, and PR-obsessed shapeshifters - not to mention an extremely hot bartender named Ricardo - isn't easy. And the minute one of Amanda's undead friends disappears after texting the word, "help" (The undead - so dramatic!) she knows the afterlife is about to get really ugly.Something sinister is at hand. Someone or something is hell bent on turning Seattle's undead underworld into a place of true terror. And this time, Amanda may meet a fate a lot worse than death...
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"Call them the splatterati--werewolves who always know what to wear, zombies with bodies to die for, and vampires who know their fang shui--just don't call them late when it comes to happy hour, or the drinks might be on you."
About the Author
Mark Henry recently traded a career in the helping profession to scar minds with his fiction. He attributes his ideas to premature exposure to horror movies, and/or witnessing adult cocktail parties in the '70s. He's been further formed by surviving earthquakes, typhoons, and two volcanic eruptions. Happy Hour Of The Damned is his first novel. He, surprisingly, lives and breathes today in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and two dogs.
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Mark traded a career in the helping profession to scar minds with his fiction. He attributes his ideas to premature exposure to horror movies, and/or witnessing adult cocktail parties in the '70s. His development has been further skewed by surviving earthquakes, typhoons, and two volcanic eruptions. Despite being disaster prone, he somehow continues to live and breathe. Residing in the oft maligned, yet not nearly as soggy as you'd think, Pacific Northwest, with his wife and two furry monsters that think they're children.
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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you're like me, you've always thought that the hot, flirty action on Sex and the City was missing one essential thing: humans getting eaten by zombies. Finally, someone has breached the gap in that field of entertainment, and his name is Mark Henry.
Happy Hour of the Damned follows ad exec Amanda Feral as she adjusts to life as one of the living dead, following an unfortunate slip in a parking lot. Amanda's a sassy, no-nonsense heroine with a taste for both quality fashion and human flesh. Her friends, vampire Gil and zombie Wendy, are fantastic, and the trio provides non-stop wit and banter as they unravel the mystery of what's happened to a missing friend.
Mark's easy writing style captures Amanda's voice perfectly and makes this urban fantasy book hard to put down. If you like your humor a little dark and twisted, you've come to the right place--and you'll never look at Starbucks the same way again.
Happy Hour of the Damned follows ad exec Amanda Feral as she adjusts to life as one of the living dead, following an unfortunate slip in a parking lot. Amanda's a sassy, no-nonsense heroine with a taste for both quality fashion and human flesh. Her friends, vampire Gil and zombie Wendy, are fantastic, and the trio provides non-stop wit and banter as they unravel the mystery of what's happened to a missing friend.
Mark's easy writing style captures Amanda's voice perfectly and makes this urban fantasy book hard to put down. If you like your humor a little dark and twisted, you've come to the right place--and you'll never look at Starbucks the same way again.
17 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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"Gruesome, ghoulish and utterly groundbreaking. Mark Henry is daring and scathingly funny." --Jackie Kessler
I really, really enjoyed this book. It's dark and macabre, and seriously twisted -- which in my world makes it damn near perfect. Amanda isn't your average heroine. She's unapologetically biting -- both in her humor and her food choices -- and she's got a brutal fashion sense and a fine appreciation for booze. What makes the story really work for me is that Amanda is more than a well-dressed vehicle for a scathing one-liner: she changes over the course of the book. She grows, bless her dead little heart.
Like I said, the humor is dark. If EVIL DEAD is your thing, I bet you'll love this book.
"Gruesome, ghoulish and utterly groundbreaking. Mark Henry is daring and scathingly funny." --Jackie Kessler
I really, really enjoyed this book. It's dark and macabre, and seriously twisted -- which in my world makes it damn near perfect. Amanda isn't your average heroine. She's unapologetically biting -- both in her humor and her food choices -- and she's got a brutal fashion sense and a fine appreciation for booze. What makes the story really work for me is that Amanda is more than a well-dressed vehicle for a scathing one-liner: she changes over the course of the book. She grows, bless her dead little heart.
Like I said, the humor is dark. If EVIL DEAD is your thing, I bet you'll love this book.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By Todd Thomas
Format:Paperback
Notice that most of the other reviews are from really highly ranked, strong selling fantasy authors? That says a lot about the quality of this book. It's not only a fun read, but it's a well-crafted fantasy world that would be great to inhabit, except for the flesh-eating divas.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
I enjoyed it very much.
I bought my book actually at Goodwill, hoping it was a good read and I wasn't disappointed. I've been trying to find something that catches my imagination and something that I... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Rachel Scott
4.0 out of 5 stars
Happy Hour of the Damned
I've really gotten into reading zombie books lately. Thus far in my zombie reading adventures it has been the upmost importance to kill the zombies. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Vanessa
5.0 out of 5 stars
Happy Hour of the Damned
WARNING: If your sensibilities are easily offended then I suggest you not read this book. Of course, you will be missing out on one ridiculously hilarious book. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Raelena
4.0 out of 5 stars
Guys can write like chicks too!
Road Trip of the Living Dead
Somewhere in Mark Henry's basement, a poor wannabe celebutante sits chained to a desk with a stripped down computer as the only source of... Read more
Somewhere in Mark Henry's basement, a poor wannabe celebutante sits chained to a desk with a stripped down computer as the only source of... Read more
Published 20 months ago by TW Brown, Author, Editor, and Reviewer
2.0 out of 5 stars
totally unlikeable main character.
couldn't stomach (pun intended) this book. give me rachel morgan or sookie stackhouse or mac in the dublin fever books anyday over this lame vain "heroine"!
Published on March 13, 2011 by Janine
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun zombie read
Amanda's had a rough life, and it's not held her back one bit. She's serious about life and a successful partner in an Advertising firm and is serious about life. Read more
Published on January 28, 2011 by MelHay
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't write women, dude.
This male writer seems to think that all women are catty bitches caught up in fashion. It's like Mean Zombies, except that was at least well-written, and the characters in Mean... Read more
Published on December 29, 2010 by Emily Jo Scalzo
3.0 out of 5 stars
Embrace your Zombieness
This was a fun, unique read. Having a zombie as the main character was refreshing. I thought the interactions with Amanda and her new friends were some of the best parts. Read more
Published on December 21, 2010 by ALina
4.0 out of 5 stars
An irreverent and twisted read
Amanda Feral is a zombie. No, not a Night of the Living Dead, dressed in ugly tattered clothes type of zombie. She is an alcohol guzzling, sassy, fashionable, executive zombie. Read more
Published on October 22, 2010 by titania86
1.0 out of 5 stars
I didn't like this book
The main character is completely unlikeable! She is a serial killer who is a snob. She doesn't even have any sense of humor! The story is slooowww and painfully dull. Read more
Published on October 1, 2010 by AndreaA
