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Dead Love

by Linda Watanabe McFerrin
Stone Bridge, dist. by Consortium. 2010. c.276p. ISBN 9781933330907. pap. $14.95. HORROR
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A confusing muddle with a half-turned zombie as heroine and a corpse-possessing ghoul as villain, this novel by an acclaimed writer (Namako: Sea Cucumber; The Hand of Buddha) tries for a romantic air of dissolute decadence but ends up aimless and scattered. It's hard to know whether the reader is supposed to admire or pity Erin, a vain dancer/model whose criminal father lures her to Japan in an effort to steal her mother's fortune There are asides about the history of zombies and ghouls that take pages to finish and read like high school research papers, complete with footnotes. BZG Erin is a true Haitian zombie, alive but enslaved to her master by a cocktail of drugs.
Reviewed by Karl Siewart , Oct 15, 2010
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