I had real problems finishing this. The lead character, Lulu, kept flipping and flopping from sympathetic to repulsive and by the time it ended, I really just wanted it over with.

Interesting concept, but terribly disappointing. Given that it's YA fiction, maybe I'm just too old? ( )

Odd and unusual twist to the usual zombie apocalypse theme. This time, they're blue. The color, not the emotion. Women of childbearing capacity are turning into cobalt killing machines. However, even their mode of death is odd and unusual. Instead of ripping their victims apart and eating them, they grab them and plant the kiss of death on them. Yep.

Enter Louise, who at 17, has some sort of 'medical condition' and has yet to menstruate. She and Mom are on the run from bill collectors and currently stalking the man who may or may not be Lulu's father. They are in a tiny beach town that has pretty much closed up for the winter. It's isolated and they know nothing about Agent X or the mayhem occurring around the country. So when her mother turns into a Blue Meanie and Lulu barely escapes from a trailer crawling with Xombies, she is rescued by the man her mom has identified as her father. They end up on a submarine. I kid you not.

From there, you have the usual trying to find sanctuary from these things while finding your place in your surroundings. It was pretty interesting and I have to say that I liked it.

Then they ended up somewhere and things got too weird for me. Between the rich and powerful, the baboon named Don Ameche and everything else going on, it lost me. Literally. I have no idea what happened at the end. Even so, I did enjoy the book, although not enough to continue reading it since it is apparently a series. I'll stop with this one. ( )

OK, I am having a hard time even beginning a review because I don't know where to start...and neither did the author of this book. We start off with Lulu and her completely irresponsible mother stalking Lulu's father. They don't even know that some "virus" is going around and people are starting to eat each other until it is too late. Cut to: Lulu's mom is a xombie and is now out of the picture and Mr. Cowper (Lulu's dad)takes Lulu to a local naval base, boatyard, naval repair center, some crazy guy's dock who happens to have a submarine, take your pick (Even though Mr. Cowper was pretty much hiding from her in the first place and only women can randomly catch the "disease" and men have to bitten).

The whole middle of the book is a bunch of boys, military men, and Lulu stuck on this submarine, underwater, heading to god knows where and nothing happens. Oh, except they let a bunch of the boys off in Canada who are then promptly gunned down.

Almost at the end of the book, the sub "crew" ends up somewhere up in the northern hemisphere where a bunch of rich dudes were paying to have immortality and utopia seriously studied. These men accidentally let loose the xombie virus and killed off all women who menstruate in the search for their immortality. But now they have this elitist post apocalyptic island in which they can live the high life until they die and are frozen to live until they come up with a cure, an anti-xombie process, a way to make men produce children...I am not sure. The "science" behind all of this is never really explained or if it was, it was done poorly and I had given up long ago.

So in summary, pass this by. Maybe one of these plotlines would make a good book (maybe), but together it was just schizophrenic nonsense that is barely readable and certainly not care about-able. ( )

Not the typical Zombie book so to me it was not one of the better story lines. Not sure if I will spend the cash on the second book. ( )

An ok book about a teen age scammer trying to survive a plague brought about by insane greed. ( )