For You is a collection of short stories by A, M. Harte. The common thread that holds all of these stories together is love, This love is the warped, dark love that walks the line between life and death, I think A. M Harte said it best when she says, "Love is, you could say, very much like a zombie, "
The stories that Ms, Harte has created takes a new approach on zombie love, What if being a zombie was common and couples not only had to deal with every day situations but had the added stress of decomposition to worry about A perfect, and somewhat humorous, example is A Prayer to Garlic.
Told from the wife's point of view, A Prayer to Garlic tells the story of what concerns a wife, who happens to be a zombie, has when her motherinlaw is coming over for dinner.
But this isn't your average zombie couple, Mog and his wife happen to prefer pork over human meat which goes against everything the zombie motherinlaw stands for, Let's hope the garlic will disguise the pork and the motherinlaw won't notice the difference,
In The Perfect Song, Ms, Harte reminds me that there may be more than one way to become a zombie and affirms my decision to not drink tea at the same time, When a batch of contaminated tea is released as an herbal alternative to antidepressants, Michael decides to give it a try in order to take his mind off of his current situation.
Michael just wants to make Valerie proud of his music and in turn, proud of him, But how does a zombie stay focused when he is determined to get his next fix
And last but not least, the story in which this
collection is named after, Hungry For You.
This story takes a much different approach than the rest of its companions, Ms. Harte shows us that there is more than one way to skin a rat, . . or in this case, more than one way to feed a zombie, In Hungry For You, zombies do not crave flesh, but rather crave sins of the flesh, It pays to have a pretty face as only the elite survive in this tale,
I strongly suggest everyone who enjoys zombies, love stories or even just twisted tales to read Hungry For You, It's a guarantee that you will love most, if not all, of these stories, Anyone that has read any of my reviews knows that I have a special place in my heart for zombie stories, I don't know why. I do know that should the Zombie Apocalypse ever come into fruition, know that I will be prepared, Chances of survival would be high, Unless they're fast and smart zombies, In that case, I haven't yet figured out what to do,
Anywho! After seeing the awesome price of this short story collection and that it was written by a good blog buddy AND that it had zombies I immediately bought it.
How can I resist a bunch of different zombie stories Zombies romance The chance to pick up more survival skills is also hard to resist,
All in all, I really did enjoy the collection, In fact, I liked it much better than I thought I would, Some of the stories I really liked, some were creepy, and some were just plain weird, As promised, all of the stories are pretty short, If you don't like one, keep reading, I'm pretty sure you'll love another one,
Some of the ones I enjoyed were Promises, Hungry for You, Electricity, and Swimming Lessons, I thought Promises was pretty cute! Yes, a zombie story that was pretty cute, This might sound creepy, but Hungry for You was one of my favorite stories, According to her site, "a police sergeant struggles with a very unusual victim, . . " It was creepy and really different from other zombie stories you've read, No, I'm serious, it was really different, I liked it because the ending is creepy! And I like creepy! Swimming Lessons was short and creepy, One of those "are you kidding me!" scenarios,
I didn't really get A Prayer for Garlic, but I've seen other reviews and a lot of people liked it, Clearly it is just me! Dead Man's Rose was weird the whole way through and it really creeped me out, The Cure was one that I had to reread to get it, Once I did, I liked it,
I didn't like Seven Birds because this one was probably the weirdest of the weird, I did like end though, You go girl! The Perfect Song was different and creepy but not one that I particularly liked, Probably one of my least favorites of the collection,
I still don't get Alive :
Arkady, Kain amp Zombies was unexpectedly sweet, Seriously, one of my kindle notes is: awwwwwwwwww, Electricity was another story that I liked, And I liked how the text was creatively placed,
I liked that the stories had a sweet mix of weird and creepy! And at times, cute, Yeah, I know. That's the same thing I was thinking! Cute, in a zombie book, She does a good job at writing them, what can I say
Really, some of the stories just had me craving more, I loved this short story collection because it's just so different from any zombie stories I've ever read, I'm looking forward to a Volumeif she ever decides to come out with one!
List of Stories because I couldn't find it anywhere:
A Love to Die For
Promises
Hungry for You
Swimming Lessons
A Prayer to Garlic
Dead Man's Rose
The Cure
Seven Birds
The Perfect Song
Alive
Arkady, Kain, amp Zombies
Electricity
A while back, I remember a friend joking about how there were vampire romances, werewolf romances, ghost romances, and finally after musing over the different shades of paranormal romance out there, he said, "What's next Zombie romance"
A.
M. Harte's Hungry For You answers that question with a resounding yes, It's a collection of short zombie love stories and poems, The topics range from zombies in love, to humans in love with zombies, to humans in love with each other fighting off the zombies, to humans facing their loved ones slowly turning into zombies.
If zombies and love can be worked into it, Harte's written about it,
As writing from the point of view of flow of words, elegant prose, and vivid description, these stories were quite lovely, As writing from the point of view of world building and taking an old classic trope, the zombie, and spiffing it up for the modern reader, they are very well done.
In fact, my only real complaint about this book is that it's a collection of short stories and not a novel,
There are so many intriguing questions raised by this collection: How did the zombie plague start How did it end Why What happened to the zombies when it was over and on and on, all of which I would have been very happy to know more about.
It's high praise to tell a writer that you wanted more, but this collection was a bit like going to a really good restaurant, getting a plate covered in little tidbits, some are plate licking good, some are just tasty, but in the end, as you're staring at that empty plate, you're still hungry.
As with any collection of short stories, some of the tales were stronger than others, The first few in particular didn't seem like complete stories to me, I kept expecting the book to go back to those characters and tell me more about what happened, But they were left in eternal literary limbo, Once past them, I lost the sense of "Huh That's it" and enjoyed the stories that came next immensely,
So, if you'd like to expand your paranormal romance horizons, go grab a copy, It's well worth the money and time, And, maybe, if enough of us buy Hungry For You, we'll encourage A, M. Harte to write the full story of her version of the zombie plague, I really enjoy zombie movies and the odd zombie game, and even though I have a soft spot for horror stories and dark fiction born from my reading background, I havent read many zombie books or stories in general.
When I first read the description for Hungry For You I was a little wary, mainly because Ive read my fair share of paranormal romance enough to last me a lifetime not a major PR fan here and I admit I was a little concerned about love mixed in with zombies, but I was willing to give it a go with an open mind.
And I also thought maybe it couldnt be too much of a stretch to like zombie stories in print so why not start with a short story collection
Well wasnt I happy I decided to read it Its a short read, but one that might be better read spaced out.
I read a few stories, then switched to another book that was a review request, before coming back to it, The first time I spent reading it I read far fewer stories compared to the second, I think for me, even though it is something that can easily be read in a day and probably better if youre a zombie fiction fan, it would be better to space it out so Im not inundated with zombie love.
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