A few weeks ago I was given the chance to review a book, Dawn Of the Dreadfuls, by Steve Hockensmith and last night, I finished it.

I can remember a time, I was ten or eleven, when i had gone to the library in our small town and had picked out a book. When I got to the counter, the librarian lifted her eyebrow and phoned my mother at the bank (My mother was a Bank manager) to ask if it was OK if I took out the book I wanted.

It was.

You see, I grew up reading and quickly ran out of what most people find children appropriate books so I moved on the what I had available, My fathers Louis L’Amour westerns, and my mothers historical romance novels.

Completely unrelated, My husband calls romance novels “Female Porn”. That super amuses me.

Back to the point. I have been reading books set in Victorian times since I was quite young. Which is important because it meant I was totally at home with the main characters of this book.

Dawn of the Dreadfuls is a book about Zombies, set in the early 1900’s. The heroines are struggling with both trying to be proper and dutiful young women, and trying to save the world from zombies.

In a nutshell, it is a very good book, and I urge you to read it.

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I cannot wait to get my copy of Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, to which Dawn of the Dreadfuls was a prequel to!

pee ess : Dude. I totally got a free copy of the book to review. Full disclosure and all that rot. But I’m bitchy. If I hadn’t liked the book, I would have said so!

∗ Posted by bluepaintred on 03.11.2010
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