Undead Much? by Stacey Jay

Title: Undead Much? (Megan Berry #2)

Author: Stacey Jay

Publisher: Razorbill 2010

Genre: Zombie

Pages: 304

Rating:  4/5 stars

Reading Challenges: Zombie; Support Your Local Library; Read Your Name - U

How I Got It: Library Loan

Megan Berry - Zombie Settler extraordinaire - just wants Pom Squad to trounce Cheer Team in this freakishly funny follow-up to You Are So Undead to Me. But someone's turning coma victims into settler-resistant uber-zombies - and everyone thinks it's Megan's fault! Well, except for super-creepy male cheerleader Aaron. (Ew!)Meg's also being stalked by a hot - albeit undead - seer named Cliff. Can Cliff's premonitions help Megan stop a zombies-on-ice deathscapade and discover who's really behind the coma-killer crusade before an entire army of undead rise up? And when Megan's boyfriend Ethan grows jealous of Cliff, will it end their intra-settler romance?

Another surprise.  I really didn't think I was going to like this one, and I was wrong.  It was a fun zombie book with enough gore and creep out factor to keep me reading.  I don't think I liked it quite as much as the first one.  Really the first one could have been a stand alone.  This one continues her story and adds lots of conspiracy layers.  I still liked tha Megan actually acted like a 16-year-old.  Even though I wanted to smack her a few times for her immaturity.  It was fun.  Not overly amazing.  It's not going to appear on my Top 10 list for the year, but it was a great two day read.

Megan Berry, Zombie Settler (DNFed series)

• #1 You are So Undead to Me
• #2 Undead Much?
• #2.5 Valentine's Day of the Undead

You are So Undead to Me by Stacey Jay

Title: You are So Undead to Me  (Megan Berry #1)

Author: Stacey Jay

Publisher: Razorbill 2009

Genre: Zombie

Pages: 272

Rating:   4 / 5 stars

Reading Challenges: Zombie; What's in a Name - Creepy Crawly; Support Your Local Library; States Challenge - Arkansas

How I Got It: Library Loan

Fifteen-year-old Megan Berry is a Zombie Settler by birth, which means she's part-time shrink to a bunch of dead people with a whole lot of issues.All Megan wants is to be normal - and go to homecoming, of course. Unfortunately, it's a little difficult when your dates keep getting interrupted by a bunch of slobbering Undead.

Things are about to get even more complicated for Megan. Someone in school is using black magic to turn average, angsty Undead into flesh-eating Zombies, and it's looking like homecoming will turn out to be a very different kind of party - the bloody kind.

Megan must stop the Zombie apocalypse descending on Carol, Arkansas. Her life - and more importantly, homecoming - depends on it.

I have a confession: I thought this was going to be an uber-stupid teenage novel about the right hair or getting the cute boy. I thought was going to make fun of this novel and wonder how it even was published.   But I was wrong (mostly).  Megan is a teenager.  She does care about making the dance team and getting a date for the Homecoming Dance.  But she's also a settler with a lot more power than she thinks.  She make act immature at times, but she is fifteen.  It's refreshing to see a young adult novel where the young adult actually acts like a young adult, not an adult stuck in a teenage body.  I think I would have been over the moon with this book if I was fifteen.  Megan Berry would have been my hero.  Even as an almost-30-year-old, I really enjoyed this book.  I enjoyed it so much that I picked up the sequel to read next.

Megan Berry, Zombie Settler

• #1 You are So Undead to Me
• #2 Undead Much?
• #2.5 Valentine's Day of the Undead