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Brains For Lunch: A Zombie Novel in Haiku?!
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Goofy, gross, demented, and delicious! K.A. Holt has created a classic tale of middle-school angst...the difference being that this illustrated novel is written entirely in Haiku.
Middle school is tough enough, but it's even worse when your classmates include lifers (regular humans), nasty blood-sucking creatures called chupacabras, and zombies. Loeb (pun fully intended) falls into the last category and, unfortunately for him, he has a huge crush on a human girl (major no-no). Can he push past the stereotypes and the different cliques to win his school's haiku competition and impress the girl?
In scenes set around a lunch table (the menu: brains) and around the school, eyes roll and jaws drop (literally). Also featured in the cast of characters is Carl, a chupacabra (bloodsucking critter) and Mrs. Fincher, a sympathetic and seductive librarian.
Middle school is tough enough, but it's even worse when your classmates include lifers (regular humans), nasty blood-sucking creatures called chupacabras, and zombies. Loeb (pun fully intended) falls into the last category and, unfortunately for him, he has a huge crush on a human girl (major no-no). Can he push past the stereotypes and the different cliques to win his school's haiku competition and impress the girl?
In scenes set around a lunch table (the menu: brains) and around the school, eyes roll and jaws drop (literally). Also featured in the cast of characters is Carl, a chupacabra (bloodsucking critter) and Mrs. Fincher, a sympathetic and seductive librarian.
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“Was expecting more from this one, but the humor was very low brow.”
“Loved the concept of a zombie story told in haiku, and the execution was pretty good, but overall I was disappointed in the story. A few big plot holes bothered me--whose brains are the zombies eating? Why shouldn't the Lifers be afraid of their zombie classmates, if they eat human brains? Is it okay that even at the end, given themes of different races coming together, everyone still hates the chupacabra?
But the biggest buzz-killer was the "romance." The girl love-interest lies and sneaks her way into the male main character's heart, and then he pins her to a wall to express his interest in her. Let's not forget the power dynamic: he's a zombie and she's a human, so presumably he could kill and eat her, but she flutters her eyelashes and says she's not afraid. Both boys and girls need to see romance that doesn't involve trickery, implied threats, and unequal power dynamics.”
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