- Paperback: 122 pages
- Publisher: 1889 Labs Ltd (March 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1926959043
- ISBN-13: 978-1926959047
- Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 12.6 x 0.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 141 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Love is horrible. It's ruthless, messy, mind-altering, and raw. It takes no prisoners. It chews you up and spits you out and leaves you for dead. Love is, you could say, very much like a zombie. In this haunting short story collection, anything is possible-a dying musician turns to tea for inspiration; a police sergeant struggles with a very unusual victim; a young wife is trapped in a house hiding unimaginable evil.... With "Hungry For You", A.M. Harte explores the disturbing and delightful in an anthology that unearths the thin boundary between love and death.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Zombie Love is Fun,
By A. F. Stewart "fantasy author" (Nova Scotia, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hungry for You (Paperback)
Any book that starts with a zombie apocalypse love poem is my kind of tome. Hungry For You by A. M. Harte is a well penned, alluring collection of romance stories laced with a satirical edge of zombie madness.
The book is a gentle smorgasbord of dark horror, small portraits of life gone horribly wrong, but still clinging to some redemption. It is a glimpse of love surviving in the zombie apocalypse, and once or twice, of other tales of undead romance. As one might expect, I enjoyed some stories more than others, but they were all well-written, engaging and great fun to read. Hungry for You has a subtle touch of dark humour, but also has a sweet undercurrent of affection and warmth. It maintains love can survive total catastrophe, that even zombies have a heart. Hungry for You is an interesting take on your typical zombie story, and will keep you entertained, as well as occasionally queasy.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (20 customer reviews) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Like nothing else I've read,
By Erica Lindquist "author" - Published on Amazon.com
Let me say that I am neither a zombie fan, not a love story fan. That aside, I enjoyed Hungry For You very, very much. Some stories are a little stronger than other, and the idea of sexual zombies makes my skin crawl, but Harte's stories are wonderful. The characters are very real and each very different from one another. Each episode is well-written and (high praise for an indie book!) virtually error-free.
This book is well worth your time and certainly worth a dollar! 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Hungry For More!,
By Jaidis Shaw - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hungry for You (Paperback)
Hungry For You is a collection of short stories by A.M. Harte. The common thread that holds all of these stories together is love. This love is the warped, dark love that walks the line between life and death. I think A.M Harte said it best when she says, "Love is, you could say, very much like a zombie."
The stories that Ms. Harte has created takes a new approach on zombie love. What if being a zombie was common and couples not only had to deal with every day situations but had the added stress of decomposition to worry about? A perfect, and somewhat humorous, example is A Prayer to Garlic. Told from the wife's point of view, A Prayer to Garlic tells the story of what concerns a wife, who happens to be a zombie, has when her mother-in-law is coming over for dinner. But this isn't your average zombie couple. Mog and his wife happen to prefer pork over human meat which goes against everything the zombie mother-in-law stands for. Let's hope the garlic will disguise the pork and the mother-in-law won't notice the difference. In The Perfect Song, Ms. Harte reminds me that there may be more than one way to become a zombie and affirms my decision to not drink tea at the same time. When a batch of contaminated tea is released as an herbal alternative to anti-depressants, Michael decides to give it a try in order to take his mind off of his current situation. Michael just wants to make Valerie proud of his music and in turn, proud of him. But how does a zombie stay focused when he is determined to get his next fix? And last but not least, the story in which this collection is named after, Hungry For You. This story takes a much different approach than the rest of its companions. Ms. Harte shows us that there is more than one way to skin a rat...or in this case, more than one way to feed a zombie. In Hungry For You, zombies do not crave flesh, but rather crave sins of the flesh. It pays to have a pretty face as only the elite survive in this tale. I strongly suggest everyone who enjoys zombies, love stories or even just twisted tales to read Hungry For You. It's a guarantee that you will love most, if not all, of these stories. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
My first foray into the world of zombies,
By Blatant Biblioholic - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hungry for You (Paperback)
I have to say that stories about zombies have never been high on my list of things to read. It's not that I'm against them, it's just that I've never been interested enough to pick up anything that contains Zombies. I am aware, however, that this sub-genre has a HUGE fanbase, so when A.M. Harte contacted me to ask me whether I'd like to review the book, I figured it was time I finally made my first foray into their world.
As it's a collection of short stories, I guess it served as a great introduction to the world of zombies. As I said above, I don't have anything to compare this too, but looking at other reviews, it would seem that Harte plays around with the genre and injects new life into zombies (no pun intended!). Whilst I can't corroborate that, what I can say is that whatever she does, she's damn good at it. I loved all of the stories in this collection and I could easily have read more. Hell, some of the stories left me dying to know more and many of them could serve as great bases for novels. I guess this isn't a great thing in a short story collection, but it didn't bother me too much. The writing is creative, the plots imaginative and the twists generally unexpected. I liked that some of the twists also made me think about the preceding story in a new light. The feeling throughout this book is pretty much always creepy and it definitely had me feeling uneasy. But it kept me hooked. It had me freaked out in a good way. I would say my favourite story is the story that gives the collection it's title, Hungry For You, but as I said, for me there weren't any duds in this collection. I look forward to reading more from A.M. Harte |
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