Book Club Review: Dearly Departed

Dearly, Departed by Lia Habel
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It took me forever to finish this!
For a zombie book it was rather boring. Ms Dearly is a spoilt brat, and how many time did she faint?? Bram was kinda nice for a dead guy, really sweet in his love for her. Pam kinda got kick arse, though timid in the start of the story clearly extreme situations bring out the best in some people.
This book was boring but was clearly setting up the series and more than likely gets much better in the next few books. I doubt the events in the series will make sense without reading this one, so if you are into 'zombie love' then this is probably going to be a great series.
There are clearly some very serious racial issues explored in the book, using the New Victorians vs the Punks then the Living vs the Dead to get the points across.
This also didn't really read as a steampunk as the 'punks' seemed the only ones with steam-technology.

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