I had such a hard time getting through them. Sadly, the gore parts were just too disgusting and horrible for me to like. We meet our MC's boyfriend (as I would call him that), we see them all go to the Statue of Liberty (something to do with it being an island).Īt first things go right, but well, since we know that she ends up as a zombie, you can just guess it is going spectacularly wrong. Luckily, our girl and her dad are zombie aficionados. The book starts off with our girl telling us why she started writing haikus, and then the zombies start pouring in.

A book about a girl in the midst of zombie apocalypse? Turning into a zombie herself (ha, no spoiler, the blurb spoils it all already, thanks btw).

I am normally not that into books with poetry/haiku/verse, and I am also kind of trying to read less zombie books (too many nightmares), but I still couldn't resist this book. I bought this one at Boekenfestijn (which I visited yesterday). LEAD YOUR TEENS WHO LOVE ZOMBIES TO THIS BOOK! It is hidden in Adult Nonfiction at my library. The packaging, as always, is brilliant, with stock photos and blood spatters and drawings dotting the pages.īut honestly, the story is so riveting and touching that I thought about booktalking it. And of course, Mecum's zombie haiku are almost always great when taken alone. You want to know what will happen to the crush, the dad, if the escape plan will work, if she'll be faced with her zombified mom. Famous poems, remade in haiku and zombified, are scattered through the pages. So when the zombie apocalypse hits, they make their way to the Statue of Liberty. She has a long-dead mom, a crush, and lives with her dad, who loves watching horror films and drives a ferry between the islands which make up NYC. A child obsessed with poetry (hence the haiku). In this volume, Mecum ups the stakes by making his eventual zombie a child.

Zombie Haiku by Ryan Mecum