Björn recenserade Extracts from a technocrat's diary av Joan Olatoyosi Ayo
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I was going to stay way clear of this one, after all the "It's basically Twilight with zombies!" talk: After the apocalypse, a zombie falls in love with a human girl after eating her boyfriend's brains... come ON.
But as a quick, fluffy read, it's quite passable, and owes a fair bit to the original Dawn Of The Dead filtered through a high school report on Romeo And Juliet. There's a basic metaphor (as in one, single, uncomplicated) metaphor about society increasingly built on conflict and us vs them mentality that works fairly well, and at first I find myself loving the running gag that the narrator (who's a zombie) narrates in this ridiculously overblown, fauxlosophical purple prose that he's unable to say out loud since, well, he's a zombie. When it becomes obvious after a while that it's not really supposed to be a joke but simply the way …
I was going to stay way clear of this one, after all the "It's basically Twilight with zombies!" talk: After the apocalypse, a zombie falls in love with a human girl after eating her boyfriend's brains... come ON.
But as a quick, fluffy read, it's quite passable, and owes a fair bit to the original Dawn Of The Dead filtered through a high school report on Romeo And Juliet. There's a basic metaphor (as in one, single, uncomplicated) metaphor about society increasingly built on conflict and us vs them mentality that works fairly well, and at first I find myself loving the running gag that the narrator (who's a zombie) narrates in this ridiculously overblown, fauxlosophical purple prose that he's unable to say out loud since, well, he's a zombie. When it becomes obvious after a while that it's not really supposed to be a joke but simply the way Marion writes, well... but it's got decent characterisation and a heartfelt idea and braaaaaaaaains, so it's worth finishing if you bother to start it.