Zombified
Maggie
LaCroix
Release Date:
August 28 ,
2014
Published by The Writers Coffee
Shop
Genre:
Fantasy/Urban, Romance/Paranormal
ISBN
e-book:
978-1-61213-324-9
Available from: Amazon, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, and TWCS PH
~~SUMMARY~~
Monsters generally know
their place: vampires get to be sexy while zombies just decompose. But Maggie
La Croix’s
Zombified conjures up an entirely different kind of undead
raised by good old-fashioned Voodoo. These gorgeous walking corpses don’t eat brain, they don’t stagger, and their bodies are
spared the indignities of putrefaction.
Take Henri Jolicoeur. More
than one hundred years after his death he is still a bewitching Adonis. But
zombification does have its downsides. Henri has a master, a powerful Voodoo
priest whose spells keep Henri, his teenage zombie sister, and five other poor
souls in perpetual servitude.
That is, until a hurricane
devastates their New Orleans home and the zombies are evacuated to the Texas
border town of El Paso. The curse is broken. They are free and intend to stay
that way. But how can they pass for human when they don’t eat or sleep and they’re reeling from black magic withdrawal? If that isn’t enough, they have a traitor in
their midst, their master is hot on their trail, and a mysterious stranger in
black is watching.
Enter Josie Cortez, a
cowboy boots-wearing reporter at the local newspaper who desperately needs a
good story to save her moribund career and get her editor off her back. One
look at Henri and his weird little family and she knows she’s struck journalism gold. But strange
things keep happening around Henri, things that remind Josie of her own tragic
family history with black magic, a history that cost her her beloved mother and
led Josie straight to the bottom of a bottle. Josie would rather forget all
about that. Forgetting Henri, however, is easier said than done, even if
falling for a man without a heartbeat could get her more than a broken heart.
It could get her zombified.
~~Michele's Review~~
Super fun, sexy, extremely humanizing story of a zombie—think
voodoo, not brain eaters— named Henri Jolicoeur and his fellow zombie slaves struggles
in a mortal world, while on the lam from their abusive and disgusting master,
due to a fortuitous natural disaster. Toss
in a depressed, teetering on alcoholic, soon to be has been journalist named
Josie Cortez and suddenly we have a complex story of life, murder, magic, love,
family, and um— rebirth?
Maggie LaCroix has set a new bar for zombie stories to be
measured against. Her ‘monsters’ are entertaining,
extremely human and actually make you feel for them. I would have to say, Ti Pierre was my
favorite, you have to watch out for those quiet ones! Josie on the other hand wasn’t very likeable
at first, but she came around and I can’t wait to see what is in store, at
least, I am hoping there are further books with these characters! I want to
know more about all of their stories and see from their points of view! Extremely well done flashbacks, left me wanting more more more!
This story, while short, was complex with many story lines,
but nothing was left unanswered. A great first novel. I am looking forward to
watching Ms. LaCroix grow and blossom!
4.5 Stars! Highly recommended read!
~~ABOUT THE
AUTHOR~~
When she first
embarked in fiction writing, Maggie thought, Piece of cake. After
all, she’d been a
newspaper reporter for ten years; writing was her daily bread. But
Zombified, her first novel about a band of sexy zombies, was
anything but easy. The story wasn’t conveniently laid out for her at a press conference;
it had to be coaxed out of her own imagination. Plot points resisted solving,
descriptions meandered, and characters misbehaved. But just when things seemed
bleakest, it happened. Maggie fell in love with it all: the zombies, the love
story, and even the rituals of writing.
Maggie likes her leading
women flawed and her science fiction sexy. She went to school for journalism
and political science. She lives in the United States.
~~CONNECT WITH THE
AUTHOR~~
Praise
for Zombified
Mention zombies and the
first thing you tend to think of is one of the creatures on The
Walking Dead, not smokin’ hot gigolos. In her debut novel,
Zombified, set in the devastation post-Hurricane Katrina,
Maggie LaCroix has managed to create a world of attractive Creole revenants,
forced to do the bidding of an evil voodoo master.
When down-on-her-luck
journalist Josie Cortez is assigned to cover the arrival of the Katrina
refugees in her Texas town, she gets more than just a front-page story. Her
attraction to the gorgeous man with the strange eyes, Henri Jolicoeur, leads
her into the kind of danger she could never have imagined.
Zombified
is unique, fast-paced, and quite humorous in places. Just one look at that
cover tells you this is not your usual zombie story.
~Andrea from Books, Baking and Other Objects of Beauty
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