My Life as a White Trash Zombie

To be clear, I didn't finish this book. My Life as a White Trash Zombie does two things I'm pretty over. First, it takes place in some alternate reality where zombies are not such a pervasive part of pop culture. This allows our protagonist to spend much of the first quarter of the book being baffled by her symptoms. Second, I'm done with origin stories. I know every urban fantasy takes at least a book to get over itself, but it's still a slog to get through and how am I supposed to know which ones get better after the first book? and for that matter, which series get good enough to suffer through the first one (or three for The Dresden Files)? Even better, which series can I just skip all of this and get to the good stuff?

Besides my two pet-peeves, the story so far was fairly uninspired. It was published around the same time as the comic iZombie, which treads much of the same path. Girl becomes zombie, works in morgue to get brains guilt-free, gets involved in the larger zombie world.

The best parts of this book were the cover, which I am still in love with, and the narrator for the audiobook, who does a pretty good southern drawl.