The
Down Home Zombie Blues
Linnea Sinclair
Reviewed by Ann Marie Chalmers
Homicide
detective Theo Petrakos has seen a lot of thing over the years but a
mummified
corpse has him stumped. Sure he has seen
one before but this one has only been dead a few hours, which is
impossible. While searching the crime
scene a futuristic looking laptop is found.
With no-one around to take a look at the equipment and the
Christmas
holidays about to start Theo takes the evidence home for safe keeping.
In
steps sexy and suave Guardian Force zombie hunter Jorie Mikkalah. The mummified corpse was a friend of hers and
she needs the laptop back. However
getting the computer back isn’t too easy.
The transport devices and language on this planet are not what
Jorie is
used to and there is only really time to learn the basics when you have
zombies
on your tail.
Suddenly
Theo finds himself fighting along side a stranger against an unknown
enemy. With the enemy defeated Theo is
left with no time to process the attack because finds himself
transported onto
a spaceship. Kidnapped by Jorie he tries
all the bargaining he can to get himself back on solid ground. Talking to the Alien who took him away from
Earth learns the horrible truth about the imminent zombie invasion on
his home
planet.
Jorie
manages to get Theo assigned as her unofficial partner and they head
back down
to Earth to get rid of the zombie scum. Neither of them are too happy with the
arrangement but Jorie has to make sure she stops the invasion so she
can
finally get the promotion she has been working towards.
Theo on the other hand doesn’t have much
choice or he will end up being deported to another planet.
Problems
keep coming and the action keeps them going.
Trying to make sure no-one finds out who Jorie is hard. So Theo tells his friends and family she is a
new ‘friend’. This puts them both into
an interesting position making their time together get a little steamy. In the end saving this planet isn’t going to
be their only problem. Can they save
the planet and each other?
In
this newest novel from RITA Award winning author Linnea Sinclair we get
pulled
into an intergalactic action adventure.
Sinclair manages to make the reader believe that Aliens and
Zombie’s
could just be in Florida hiding and
moving around among
the inhabitants. The Zombie’s don’t make
an impressive appearance in this one but they make their presence known. More Sci-fi than Paranormal don’t let the
cool title trick you.
The
author’s use of futuristic technology terms really makes this a Sci-fi
filled
romance novel for geeks and anyone who loves a good steamy love affair.
I could really picture this as a full
length
movie blockbuster. With some nice quirky
lines, an interesting collection of characters and a Christmas backdrop
this is
something nice to curl up with in the upcoming winter months.