You Are So Undead to Me (Megan Berry, Book 1) [Paperback]

Stacey Jay (Author)

Book Description

Release date: January 22, 2009

Q: HOW MANY ZOMBIES DOES IT TAKE TO RUIN A SOCIAL LIFE?
A: NOT MANY.

Megan Berry is a Zombie Settler by birth, which means she’s part-time shrink to a whole bunch of semi-dead people with killer issues. All Megan really wants is to go to homecoming, but when you’re trailed by a bunch of slobbering corpses whenever you leave the house, it’s kinda hard to score a date. Let’s just say Megan’s love life could use some major resuscitation.

Megan’s convinced her life can’t get any worse – until someone in school starts using black magic to turn average, angsty Undead into scary, hardcore flesh-eating Zombies. Now it’s up to Megan to stop the Zombie apocalypse. Her life – and more importantly, the homecoming dance – depends on it.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Stacey Jay lives in Maumelle, Arkansas.

Product Details

• Age Range: 12 and up
  
• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Razorbill (January 22, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1595142258
• ISBN-13: 978-1595142252
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,081,781 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stacey Jay is a recovering workaholic (or at least working hard at recovering) with three pen names, two small children, and a passion for playing pretend. She's been a full time mom-writer since 2005 and can't think of anything she'd rather be doing. Her former careers include theater performer, professional dancer, poorly paid C-movie actress, bartender, waiter, math tutor, and yoga instructor.

Find Stacey on the Web at http://staceyjay.com, or blogging at (http://staceyjayya.blogspot.com) or Livejournal (http://stacey-jay.livejournal.com).

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars The Story Siren Reviews: January 25, 2009

By The Story Siren VINE™ VOICE

Format:Paperback

Stacey Jay made my first exposure to the wonderful world of zombie literature a fun one! I always think of Michael Jackson's Thriller video when I think of zombies. Not that has any significance for this review, but I just felt like throwing that out there, because that's how I kept imagining the zombies when I was reading this novel. I thought the whole Settler society was a very interesting and unique! And Jay does a remarkable job depicting it.

I was expecting a darker theme, but it ended up being lighthearted and funny. There's a steady dose of suspense, action, humor and romance which always makes for a good read. Megan is a typical teenage girl, I mean except for the whole helping the undead thing. But that is what makes You are so Undead to Me such a charming read!

I had no idea who the culprits were! Now that I know, I don't know why I didn't figure it out earlier, but I was just at oblivious as Megan! I love when a novel baffles me like that. Stacey Jay has written an impressive debut novel and I'm looking forward to reading more by her!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Cute & fun read! June 18, 2011

By The Bookish Brunette

Format:Paperback

This is SUCH a fun and cute read!

Megan Berry is a Zombie 'settler'. Basically she helps the undead settle into the afterlife.

"Welcome to your after-death session. My name is Megan. May I have your name, last name first?" -Megan doing her opening spiel.

Megan has been out of the zombie settling game for 5 years, when suddenly- right before her date with Mr. HOT senior Josh- a zombie shows up at her door ringing the doorbell.

Here's the deal. Once the zombie tells the settler whatever it is that has them bothered enough to CRAWL back from the dead, then they are good to go and head back to the grave.

WICKED interesting twist on the whole 'zombie' thing right?

But zombies CAN be brought back by dark witchcraft and these particular RC's (reanimated corpses) are very very bad and very very dangerous. Someone is raising RC's... and now Megan's childhood best friend Ethan (who is insanely hot now) is back and has decided to be her "pretend" boyfriend in order to protect her from these rogue RC's.

Dude, I know right? I WILL NOT tell you who is behind raising the RC's, but you won't freaking believe it! And the end was full of so many wicked awesome twists that I cannot WAIT to start Undead Much!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Fairly Good July 11, 2010

By Jules Dunn

Format:Paperback

This isn't the type of book that comes with any original material or an exciting storyline, but if you're into the woes of teenage life with a supernatural setting, this is your book. The first thing that hit me while reading this book was that it's very "Buffy" and also very predictable, but I must give Stacey Jay credit for her skill in giving me a "will they or won't they" feeling between Megan and Ethan up until the every end. I was as confused as Megan about Ethan's feelings about her and I have to say that Stacey really captured the feelings of confusion and frustrations of teenage love we all feel sometime throughout our youth, but with the exception of that I can't really say I enjoyed being with Megan while she dealt with balancing her school life and her settler duties. She came off to me as a bit spoiled and self-centered who badly needed to "grow up" and put her priorities in order even if she was kinda forced into this lifestyle. She was also very hard to root for when she seemed to put her social life WAY above things that obviously needed her attention more and came off as the girl you're supposed to hate while reading a story. I can't say I enjoyed this book very much, but I can see there being a target group of readers who would enjoy reading this book. I would place this story as a "good try" on Stacey Jay's part for a first book, but I think, along with Megan Berry, Stacey Jay's writing badly needs some growing up to do.