Oh my dear god. That title—the title of this post, as it happens—is the title of a book I bought, at a time last week when I wasn't really paying very careful attention. I Just started actually reading it this morning.
Piper, the main protagonist, is in a really bad place. She's dragging herself through a very painful life as a complaints person for an internet provider. She's lost her girlfriend recently; she's dead. That's Maddie.
It turns out that she and Maddie were so close that Piper is all at sea in a very scary way. She can barely hold herself together; doesn't eat, can't sleep, can't focus on anything. Then she finds a book that tells her how to get Maddie back from the dead, as a zombie.
This is where I stopped reading. I went back to the blurbs, finding it hard to believe that I actually paid, like, $2.99 for this book. Then I read a few reviews of people who had bought and read the book. The reviews were almost all highly favorable. Apparently, once Maddie comes alive—don't ask, because I didn't read that far—she has to eat human flesh. I think it's completely out of line for a dead person to demand human flesh, but apparently Maddie is insatiable.
So why am I writing about this story? It appears that these two were really super in love. (That much I got from my reading; the author conveys Piper's devastation at Maddie's death very convincingly.) And from the blurbs/ reviews I think I picked up that the more Maddie ate, the more human she became.
What can I say. I should've waited until I'd read the whole thing before I wrote about it. Maybe one of you might be brave enough to just pick up the book and read it, and tell us how it goes!
Kay
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