{"id":33,"date":"2009-06-10T00:34:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T06:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kaitystorm.com\/wp\/?p=33"},"modified":"2013-07-23T11:59:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T17:59:44","slug":"down-home-zombie-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaitystorm.com\/wp\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Down Home Zombie Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"
Down Home Zombie Blues by Linnea Sinclair, published in 2007 by Bantam Books<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This book was a very fun read.\u00a0Linnea\u2019s books were first published as Science Fiction, but her publisher reclassed her works as Romance, issued new covers to appeal to a new audience.\u00a0Zombie Blues has action, adventure, and the expected relationship, but I was pleased that it didn\u2019t overshadow the story. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jorie Mikkalah is a Guardian Force commander who is chasing zombies, which lead her to Earth.\u00a0Theo Petrakos is a Florida homicide detective who finds one of Jorie\u2019s team mates\u2014now a mummified corpse.\u00a0Who knew that Florida has been infested with biomechanical organisms who are deadly to anything humanoid? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The characters are believable and likeable.\u00a0I loved that Jolie was strong without making Theo weak or wishy-washy.\u00a0The technology that Jorie and her team mates use are cool and worthy of wishful thinking for our current times.\u00a0The zombies (not what you would normally think of as zombies) are tough enemies to beat. There is a lot of humor and the secondary characters are well-fleshed out and loyal.
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The ending of this story is quite satisfactory; even though it leaves things a little open, the natural progression is obvious.\u00a0There is quite an opening left for a sequel, and I found myself wanting one very much.\u00a0Even the \u2018bad\u2019 character redeems himself in the end.\u00a0Watching the team try to fit into the 21st<\/sup> century culture was quite amusing as well. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The book was hard to put down, and my enjoyment of it made me do something I\u2019d never done before.\u00a0I sent the author an email expressing my pleasure and we exchanged several notes.\u00a0I also read the rest of her novels, and loved them as well.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Another very cool aspect of this novel is that it has it\u2019s very own theme song that can be found on the internet.\u00a0\u00a0 I recommend this one if you don’t mind\u00a0a little romance with your science fiction.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Down Home Zombie Blues by Linnea Sinclair, published in 2007 by Bantam Books This book was a very fun read.\u00a0Linnea\u2019s books were first published as Science Fiction, but her publisher reclassed her works as Romance, issued new covers to appeal to a new audience.\u00a0Zombie Blues has action, adventure, and the expected relationship, but I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitystorm.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitystorm.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitystorm.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitystorm.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitystorm.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitystorm.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitystorm.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitystorm.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitystorm.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaitystorm.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}