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High school with a spice of undead, September 21, 2009
This review is from: Never Slow Dance with a Zombie (Paperback)
When I first started reading Never Slow Dance with a Zombie I sighed in dismay..... another story about a girl who dreams of being popular. You know the slightly pudgy dark headed girl with a skinny blonde nemesis. The nobody who wants to be the somebody. I was even tempted to just close the book and set it on my pile of TBR, near the bottom where other books would pile atop it, and it would disappear between 'similar' and 'a million other books used that plot'. Then Margot went to school and found that it was overrun with zombies. This was when the book took a hilarious and interesting turn. Instead of reporting this massive zombie outbreak to the authorities or even running away and telling their parents, Margot and Sybil talk to their principal. Ok, you're thinking, he's an authority figure right? Wrong he enlists them to help keep the school running smoothly despite the 'mmmmmphhhgrwwwwwl'-ing zombies at the school. Guess what? The thought of being the queen bee and able to be head cheerleader (oh and prom queen) hits just the right note and Margot ploughs ahead full force. In order to survive high school you have to find your pack. (are you goth zombie or emo zombie?) Not be an individual, everyone wants to be popular right? (oh and zombies hate non-zombies, so try to fit in!) And have a gaggle of adoring wannabes behind you. (do hungry chomping zombies count?) Point is E. Van Lowe made a unique and quite funny connection between teenage/highschool angst and living with the undead. The heroines of this book aren't perfect, in fact one of them has a dark little voice inside her head telling her to be selfish and mean. These girls are real in a way Bella never could be. It's an easy humorus read, just get through the first 1/4 filled with empty thoughts of popularity and on to the zombie party!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Mean Girls Meets Night of the Living Dead, April 13, 2010
This review is from: Never Slow Dance with a Zombie (Paperback)
Margot Jean Johnson and her best friend Sybil Mulcahy are nobodies. Amanda Culpepper and the Twigettes (her mindless followers) are the bane of their existence. All Margot wants is everything on her high school manifesto to come true: be more popular than Amanda Culpepper, have a boyfriend, be invited to parties, and just eight more things she hasn't attained yet. This all changes after the school carnival when all of her classmates have turned into zombies, except Sybil. Principial Taft convinces them to pretend that eveything is ok and coexist peacefully with the zombies. Who is behind the outbreak? Should Margot try to figure out what's going on or bask in her newfound popularity? This book is a fun, light read. It's like a mixture of Mean Girls and Night of the Living Dead. E. Van Lowe captures the voice of a teenage girl very well. Not many males really know how girls interact with each other, so this is an impressive feat. Like in Mean Girls, girls are really not nice to each other. He shows how girls can tear each other down with just words. He also shows the weird dynamic between friends, both when they get along and when they don't. The popular crowd is full of false relationships and Margot, because she idolizes those "in" people, used this model in her relationship with Sybil. At first, she is kind of petty and jealous towards Sybil (who is nice to a fault). I think it takes talent to create a likeable character who does unlikeable things. The zombie situation makes her grow as a person. The book was filled with funny moments. I laughed out loud when one of the defenses against the undead was to rap them on the nose with a rolled up newspaper. Also, the fact that they could get used to going to a school filled with zombies is just hilarious to me. The dynamic between Margot and her zombie boyfriend Dirk is creepy and funny. Even the fact that the principal practically begs Margot and Sybil to go along with his plan and they go along with it is pretty amusing. Although on the surface, the story is funny and light, but there is a serious and important undertone. The girls are forced to blend in and not call attention to themselves to survive in the midst of zombies. To save the day, they have to break out of the cliques and do what's right. The message of the book is to do what's right for you and ignore what's cool or in. I think we need more teen books like this.
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Never Slow Dance with a Zombie, January 8, 2012
This review is from: Never Slow Dance with a Zombie (Paperback)
I have never read a zombie book and I don't recall watching any zombie movies so I knew very little about zombies. This book was a whole new experience for me. E. Van Lowe sent me a copy of his book, Never Slow Dance with a Zombie and I read it in a few nights. The book follows Margot and Sybil, two best friends in high school. They are forced to survive high school after most of the student body turn into zombies! They turn to their principal for help on how to survive. They realize they must on their own. Principal Taft gives them full authority to run the school events and order around school. Sybil chooses to be head lunchroom monitor. Margot volunteers to head the school events, including the dance and holiday pageant. Margot wants to be popular, the center of attention, and have a boyfriend. Sybil just wants to be Margot's friend and keep the peace. She wants to support Margot and helps her through her journey to popularity. Margot and Sybil help each other survive their high school full of zombies. Margot and Sybil also learn so much about themselves, their friendship, and what is really important in life. I loved reading Never Slow Dance with a Zombie. Fun and easy book to get into.
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