Dearly, Departed
by Lia Habel
Summary: (Goodreads)
Love can never die.
Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead—or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie?
The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria—a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country’s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. But after her beloved parents die, Nora is left at the mercy of her domineering aunt, a social-climbing spendthrift who has squandered the family fortune and now plans to marry her niece off for money. For Nora, no fate could be more horrible—until she’s nearly kidnapped by an army of walking corpses.
But fate is just getting started with Nora. Catapulted from her world of drawing-room civility, she’s suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting “The Laz,” a fatal virus that raises the dead—and hell along with them. Hardly ideal circumstances.
Then Nora meets Bram Griswold, a young soldier who is brave, handsome, noble . . . and dead. But as is the case with the rest of his special undead unit, luck and modern science have enabled Bram to hold on to his mind, his manners, and his body parts. And when his bond of trust with Nora turns to tenderness, there’s no turning back. Eventually, they know, the disease will win, separating the star-crossed lovers forever. But until then, beating or not, their hearts will have what they desire.
I Dearly, Departed, romance meets walking-dead thriller, spawning a madly imaginative novel of rip-roaring adventure, spine-tingling suspense, and macabre comedy that forever redefines the concepof undying love.
Review:
Like I stated before I had a hard time getting into this book but once I started I really enjoyed it. This was my first steam punk book and I wasn't sure how I would like it, but I will be reading more of them in the future. :)
I was on the fence about how many stars to give it 3 or 4. I decided on 4 but only because I enjoyed the story line so much. I DID NOT like how every chapter was another characters point of view. My ADD was about to take over and my head explode. (And I don't even have ADD!) I had to keep reminding myself and return to the first of the chapter to see who was actually talking in that chapter. I know Lia just wanted us to experience the story through each characters POV but it was very tiring to me.
That all being said YES I definitely want to read the next book and I'm excited to find out what happens to all the characters.
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