From Goodreads: Pamela just wants to reunite in the afterlife with her dead fiancé, Grady. Problem is, Grady was a secret agent, and his coded emails have infuriated both his employers and his enemies. They need Pamela alive. So, instead of her planned suicide, she is kidnapped by black ops agents, tortured by mobster warlords, hunted by a psychotic killer, and chased by zombies … all necessary evils in order to ultimately walk into the sunset with her true love.

WARNING: Love Lies Bleeding is a darkly comedic, bloody romance about love conquering all, even death. This is NOT a young adult novel. It contains graphic violence, nasty language, and more than a little bit of flesh eating. There are no soft kisses, soulful stares, or moonlit rainstorms.

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First and foremost, that cover is absolutely stunning!!!  I mean, the minute I saw it, I knew that I wanted to read it, and as it’s a novella and relatively short, that’s exactly what I did.

Love Lies Bleeding is unlike any zombie novel that I’ve read, and, in fact, I forgot that it was about zombies at all, until the very end.  This story is definitely not your normal, run of the mill zombie book.  It’s also not a traditional story about a girl pining away for the love she’s lost, although that is how the story opens.  Doidge sets the stage with the funeral of Grady, sending Pamela into a funk in which she wants nothing more than to die alongside Grady’s grave.  And this, my dear readers, is where the story begins to lift off.  And get weird.  Now, weird usually has negative connotations, but rest assured, I’m using it as a positive here—readers just need to know that this novella has a lot of twists and turns that might leave them scratching their heads, but it is a dark comedy, after all, and I definitely found a lot of the quirky elements, characters, and twists to be quite funny.

If you’re in the mood for something unusual, this is definitely it.  I highly suggest you pick it up!! Four stars.

I received a copy of this novella from the author in exchange for an honest review.