The Loving Dead

Name: The Loving Dead
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Amelia Beamer
ISBN: 9781441868374

Author: Amelia Beamer

Narrator: Emily Durante

Unabridged: 8 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 07/15/2010

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Kate and Michael, twenty-something housemates working at the same Trader Joe’s supermarket, are thoroughly screwed when people start turning into zombies at their house party in the Oakland hills. The zombie plague is a sexually transmitted disease, turning its victims into shambling, horny, voracious killers. Thrust into extremes by the unfolding tragedy, Kate and Michael are forced to confront the decisions they’ve made, and their fears of commitment, while trying to stay alive. Michael convinces Kate to meet him in the one place in the Bay Area that’s likely to be safe and secure from the zombie hordes: Alcatraz. But can they stay human long enough? “In The Loving Dead, Amelia Beamer gives us a zombie novel like none other. Crisp, smooth and stylish, it zips along from scene to scene, accumulating tension, humor and insight as it accelerates. It is also comic and sexy, a combination I find irresistible.” — Peter Straub, author of A Dark Matter

About Amelia Beamer

Amelia Beamer works as an editor and reviewer at Locus. Her publications include articles in Foundation and Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and short fiction published or forthcoming in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Red Cedar Review, Interfictions 2 and other venues.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Albert on May 25, 2010

If you'd told me before reading this book that I wouldn't like a book about zombies that included graphic girl on girl sex scenes and was endorsed by one of my favorite authors, Christopher Moore, I'd have said you were crazy, but this book just flat out wasn't good. The pre-billing said this book w......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on November 02, 2012

Really 2.5 stars Zombie erotica is its own special kind of erotica, and this is not the first of its kind that I have read. Zombie erotica basically consists of….zombies and erotica. Also punny titles. The title is definitely the best part of this book. Everyone I said it to when they asked what I wa......more

Goodreads review by Joshua on August 07, 2010

I really thought I would like this book, I mean the premise sounded right up my alley: the story of two people who promise to meet at the safest place they know during the zombie apocalypse, and the story of not only if they can make it together but if they could keep their humanity in an increasing......more

Goodreads review by Thea on June 04, 2016

For a first novel, it's pretty well written (despite the fact that I couldn't finish it), and the idea that Zombification spreading like an STD is interesting, but if you want more then mind-numbingly stupid players and erotica, then maybe this isn't for you. And honestly, I wouldn't be against tryi......more

Goodreads review by Randall on November 03, 2010

If you are interested in reading stories about zombies, you're likely want to get through this book, if for no reason other than that it is a zombie story. You might also be drawn in by the endorsement on the front cover by Christopher Moore and also one on the back from Peter Straub. These might lea......more