I am actually reviewing this after having read it for a second time. I finally got my hands on White Trash Zombie Apocalypse (book 3 in this series) and after about three pages I realized that I could not remember enough of book 2 to feel comfortable reading book 3. That happens to me a lot, I am guessing that unimportant information gets pushed out of my head during exam time when I am reading and cramming like crazy. I usually remember more if I have read a book twice (which I can only do with books that I really enjoyed). So, I went back to book 2 to start over. 
 Going back to Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues (EWTZGTB) was great, I wasn't paying as much attention while reading as I normally would since I have read the book before and I remembered enough of the details to be able to skim. I haven't picked up a book in this series in a long time and I had forgotten how much I actually do like the main character, Angel, despite her vulgarity. She is very straightforward, she doesn't pull her punches, and no matter how down on herself she gets, she always stands up for herself in the end (did I overuse pronouns there or what?). 
 I would, under normal circumstances, never read a zombie book. I am not a huge zombie fan (I was forced to watch World War Z by some kids I was babysitting, they went to sleep just fine - I had nightmares for a week). But, I am a huge Diana Rowland fan, and all the elements I love from her other books are present in this book as well. She does a lot of research and it shows in her books, they feel very realistic. I believe she used to work as a police officer, and may have done some work in a morgue, and her husband is a prosecutor - so she knows her way around the criminal justice system. Overall, this book is well written, the character has a great voice, the actual story is great, and Rowland never lets the reader get comfortable. At the end of the last book I felt like Angel was getting her HEA (she has a job, her dad was going to try sobering up, she and Marcus [also a zombie] got together, she had good friends, she had a surplus of brains in her freezer - ignoring the fact that her boyfriend's best friend turned out to be a zombie killer, everything was great.), any illusions of that were blown up within the first quarter of this book. 
 This book is action packed, Angel has a knack for inserting herself into crazy situations. I think that this quote pretty much sums up Angel's feelings/attitude throughout the book "A this point I wasn't at all sure I wanted to hear the rest, but I sure as hell didn't want to look weak in front of this woman. I felt inadequate enough, thank you very much. 'I'm cool,' I said with a smile I didn't feel. 'Lay it on me.'" Angel pretty much can't resist trying to one up someone, especially when she starts to feel inadequate. A lot of this book deals with Angel's feelings of inadequacy, especially since she is working on passing her GED while many of the people around her have moved onto university degrees or masters. Markus' ex doesn't help the situation either - but the great thing about Angel is that she just doesn't give up and she stands up for herself.