zombie satire

zombie satire

“I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It” by Adam Selzer ($7.99, Random House) is exactly what this world needs. Instead of reimagining a girl-meets-undead-creature love story, Selzer uses satire to poke fun at a genre that could use some these days (and this is coming from a “Twilight” fan).

Selzer had us at: “teenage vampires are a pain in the butt — they never actually mature ... but dating one has become the ultimate status symbol.” Algonquin “Alley” Rhodes lives in what she refers to as a “post-human era” or, a time after scandal broke that the Megamart was bringing corpses back to life to work in the stockroom. Offended at this treatment, a slew of other undeads began “coming out of the coffin,” so to speak. Need we say more?