Hungry For You [Kindle Edition]

A.M. Harte (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Ms. Harte writes with such beautiful subtlety that I really needed to pace myself reading Hungry For You... This is a brilliant collection that I recommend to any zombie lovers, those of us who like our fiction on the dark side, or for readers who love love, no matter what it does to you." --Soleil Noir on Black Sun Reviews

Product Description

“If you have never read A.M. Harte’s work before, you are missing out on an author of exceptional talent. There is a hunger that lasts with the reader long after the last page in this collection has been turned.” —Zombie Romance Book Reviews

Love is horrible. It’s ruthless, messy, mind-altering, and raw. It takes no prisoners. It chews you up and spits you out and leaves you for dead. Love is, you could say, very much like a zombie.

In this haunting short story collection, anything is possible—a dying musician turns to tea for inspiration; a police sergeant struggles with a very unusual victim; a young wife is trapped in a house hiding unimaginable evil....

With Hungry For You, A.M. Harte explores the disturbing and delightful in an anthology that unearths the thin boundary between love and death.

Recommended for zombie lovers and haters alike, Hungry For You offers over 10 short stories which delve into the darker side of relationships, while offering a unique view of undead life.

REVIEWS
“Ms. Harte writes with such beautiful subtlety that I really needed to pace myself reading Hungry For You. This is a brilliant collection that I recommend to any zombie lovers, those of us who like our fiction on the dark side, or for readers who love love, no matter what it does to you.” —Black Sun Reviews

“Picking a favourite is like trying to choose an ice cream flavour on a hot day... Hungry For You is a testament to why zombies are so much fun to read.” —Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile

“Engaging and heart-wrenching all throughout. The simultaneous themes of passion and destruction are unique, resulting in some chilling prose that straddle the darkness between the two.” —Frida Fantastic

“British author A.M. Harte is one of those who takes the zombie folklore and spins it around to give us a different taste of zombies. I think there is something for everyone in Hungry For You.” —One More Page

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Epigraph by Gabriel Gadfly
1. Promises
2. Hungry for You
3. Swimming Lessons
4. A Prayer to Garlic
5. Dead Man’s Rose
6. The Cure
7. Seven Birds
8. Family Matters (print only)
9. The Break Up Cafe (print only)
10. Dating the Undead (print only)
11. The Perfect Song
12. Alive
13. Arkady, Kain & Zombies
14. Electricity
Afterword (print only)
Impossible Odds by MCM (print only)

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 221 KB
• Publisher: 1889 Labs Ltd. (January 29, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004LGTRKI
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #244,516 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

A.M. Harte is a London-based speculative fiction enthusiast and chocolate addict. She is an advocate of the Free Culture Movement and indie publishing in any shape or form. She is excellent at missing deadlines, has long forgotten what 'free time' means, and enjoys procrastinating at http://amharte.com.

When not scribbling zombie love stories, she's busy cracking her Editor-in-Chief whip over at 1889 Labs (http://1889.ca), an independent publisher dedicated to producing the best strange fiction conceivable by the human brain.

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Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like nothing else I've read, June 5, 2011

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Erica Lindquist "author" (CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hungry For You (Kindle Edition)

Let me say that I am neither a zombie fan, not a love story fan. That aside, I enjoyed Hungry For You very, very much. Some stories are a little stronger than other, and the idea of sexual zombies makes my skin crawl, but Harte's stories are wonderful. The characters are very real and each very different from one another. Each episode is well-written and (high praise for an indie book!) virtually error-free.

This book is well worth your time and certainly worth a dollar!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hungry For More!, May 23, 2011

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Jaidis Shaw (South Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hungry For You (Paperback)

Hungry For You is a collection of short stories by A.M. Harte. The common thread that holds all of these stories together is love. This love is the warped, dark love that walks the line between life and death. I think A.M Harte said it best when she says, "Love is, you could say, very much like a zombie."

The stories that Ms. Harte has created takes a new approach on zombie love. What if being a zombie was common and couples not only had to deal with every day situations but had the added stress of decomposition to worry about? A perfect, and somewhat humorous, example is A Prayer to Garlic. Told from the wife's point of view, A Prayer to Garlic tells the story of what concerns a wife, who happens to be a zombie, has when her mother-in-law is coming over for dinner. But this isn't your average zombie couple. Mog and his wife happen to prefer pork over human meat which goes against everything the zombie mother-in-law stands for. Let's hope the garlic will disguise the pork and the mother-in-law won't notice the difference.

In The Perfect Song, Ms. Harte reminds me that there may be more than one way to become a zombie and affirms my decision to not drink tea at the same time. When a batch of contaminated tea is released as an herbal alternative to anti-depressants, Michael decides to give it a try in order to take his mind off of his current situation. Michael just wants to make Valerie proud of his music and in turn, proud of him. But how does a zombie stay focused when he is determined to get his next fix?

And last but not least, the story in which this collection is named after, Hungry For You. This story takes a much different approach than the rest of its companions. Ms. Harte shows us that there is more than one way to skin a rat...or in this case, more than one way to feed a zombie. In Hungry For You, zombies do not crave flesh, but rather crave sins of the flesh. It pays to have a pretty face as only the elite survive in this tale.

I strongly suggest everyone who enjoys zombies, love stories or even just twisted tales to read Hungry For You. It's a guarantee that you will love most, if not all, of these stories.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My first foray into the world of zombies, May 13, 2011

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Blatant Biblioholic (England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hungry For You (Paperback)

I have to say that stories about zombies have never been high on my list of things to read. It's not that I'm against them, it's just that I've never been interested enough to pick up anything that contains Zombies. I am aware, however, that this sub-genre has a HUGE fanbase, so when A.M. Harte contacted me to ask me whether I'd like to review the book, I figured it was time I finally made my first foray into their world.

As it's a collection of short stories, I guess it served as a great introduction to the world of zombies. As I said above, I don't have anything to compare this too, but looking at other reviews, it would seem that Harte plays around with the genre and injects new life into zombies (no pun intended!). Whilst I can't corroborate that, what I can say is that whatever she does, she's damn good at it. I loved all of the stories in this collection and I could easily have read more. Hell, some of the stories left me dying to know more and many of them could serve as great bases for novels. I guess this isn't a great thing in a short story collection, but it didn't bother me too much.

The writing is creative, the plots imaginative and the twists generally unexpected. I liked that some of the twists also made me think about the preceding story in a new light. The feeling throughout this book is pretty much always creepy and it definitely had me feeling uneasy. But it kept me hooked. It had me freaked out in a good way.

I would say my favourite story is the story that gives the collection it's title, Hungry For You, but as I said, for me there weren't any duds in this collection.

I look forward to reading more from A.M. Harte