Married with zombies

Married with zombies - by Jesse Petersen Let me just say this rates a definite 4 severed heads Sarah and David are having marital problems – Sarah is the breadwinner in the family while David is an unemployed schlub who stays home and plays video games all day. After five years of marriage they are almost through with one another but have been seeing a marriage counselor as a last ditch effort. You can tell how bad the marriage has gotten as they bicker over the music selections in the CD changer on their way to see their marriage counselor. They are so busy fighting with one another it takes them awhile to notice that traffic in Seattle is suspiciously light. Their garage attendant is absent from his post as is the receptionist for their counselor. We, as the reader, knows something’s up but Sarah and David are so absorbed in their grievances they have no idea of what they are about to walk into. They barge in on their counselor chowing down on the perfect couple who normally has the appointment before them. It’s only after the counselor turns on Sarah and she and David then have to fight her off that they begin to have an inkling that something is, indeed horribly wrong. David, who Sarah has felt has been pretty useless, is the first to cotton on to the fact that people are turning into zombies. The bulk of the story then revolves around their trying to leave Seattle to get to David’s sister. Along the way they meet some characters who are even scarier than the zombies. The story breaks no new real ground in terms of zombie lore partially due to the fact that Sarah and David utilize all their zombie knowledge from the books/movies/video games they’ve consumed. Rather it is a fun snarky read told from Sarah’s point of view and some of her observations are priceless, I defy you to not laugh at the vision of zombies still pulling handles on the slot machines. Since the two main characters ring true it’s entertaining to sit in their backseat as it were and watch they learn to not only fight zombies effectively but also learn how to get along. Learning to work as a team killing zombies is so much more effective than those trust exercises counselors are always trying to use. Anyone who has ever blown a gasket over finding the toilet seat up or the toothpaste cap off can relate to these two. A hoot – recommended even for you non zombie lovers as long as you don’t mind what my grandmother used to call salty language.