I've been debating on how to review My Life as a White Trash Zombie without sounding like a squeeing fangirl. How to walk the line between a sober rendition of: This is really good you should try it and an enthusiastic: Zomg, this book rocks so hard!! Hopefully, I can. 
 I really liked the main character, Angel. Contrary to her name, she isn't much of one. Angel Crawford has issues. Issues of the pill popping, pot smoking, drinking too much to be smart kind. The novel begins as Angel wakes up in the hospital because she accidently overdosed. Her memory is fuzzy of the evening in question and she can't recall much after her verbal tussle with her on again/off again boyfriend Randy. She struggles to remember what exactly happened and how she managed to end up on the side of the road completely naked. Still, she knows she's lucky to be alive. She is nervous however, when the cops swing by and ask her about how she ended up on that particular road naked and whether or not she knew anything about the murder that happened on that road just a few miles from where she was found. Angel doesn't get on well with cops and, in fact, she's currently on probation for a felony. 
 Since the evening is sketchy at best in her memory, she's unable to help the cops. They let her her go and Angel makes her way home in mysteriously donated clothes and with 6 bottles of what she assumes is medication. Oh, and someone sent her an anonymous note that says she has a job at the Cornorer's Office as a van driver and that if she doesn't go take the job and hold it for at least one month she'll be going back to jail because they will notify her probation officer of the drugs that were in her system from the overdose. Thus her probation will be violated. Thus she will go back to jail. 
 Not Angel's favorite note, but since she's currently jobless and wants to stay out of jail...she shows up and takes the job. 
 As the novel progresses, we follow Angel and her attempts to straighten out her life and relationships. We watch her learn her job and how to deal with co-workers. We watch her realize she has an uncommon craving for brains. We are with her as she debates her sanity and as she delves deeper in her memory searching for what really happened to her that night. 
 This is a great book. Really well written. Angel is so very believable; her relationship with her father in particular made me weepy. I do wish that Marcus had ended up with a bit more page time so that we could get to know him more beyond the fact that he's a cop who cares and is quite the looker. I'd have like to have had a better handle on him as a character before the ending. 
 Still all in all, a very very solid story. A nice first book platform to launch a series off of, and we get just enough of a taste of the new world Angel now belongs in to whet our appetites for more. 
 I look forward to reading the next book.