This book is the second in a series. If you haven't read the Undead, this can be kind of confusing because not much backstory is given. Funny, a little snarky, fairly conventional zombie story. ( )

When I reviewed Undead I called it an “obviously cheesy zombie book about a stereotypical bunch of teenagers (the loner, the cheerleader, the nerd, and the slacker) killing zombies while on a school ski trip in Scotland.” So, in the sequel Bobby (the loner) wakes up in a hospital and the conspiracy continues. Slowly she finds her friends and they are off to find Smitty (the slacker) and her mother using clues that were left for Bobby to decode. On their way they encounter zombie children, goats, and cows and are constantly being chased by pharmaceutical foot soldiers. The teens know too much about the Osiris virus and the pharmaceutical companies work with the virus.

Zombie fans who are looking for a light and entertaining read will find this book amusing. If you have already read Undead then you know exactly what to expect. If you haven’t read Undead and want to read a book similar to “The Breakfast Club,” but the students are decapitating zombies during a snowstorm, then you should read the first book. You can’t take either story seriously in the same way you can’t take a movie like “Two-Headed Shark Attack” seriously. Unfed is just meant to be entertaining for zombie’s sake. I liked watching the mystery unfold and I liked how they got the old gang back together. I felt Bobby was a little oblivious in this book and did find this book to be more predictable than its predecessor, but overall I was happy reading another unique story by Kristy McKay. ( )

When I reviewed Undead I called it an “obviously cheesy zombie book about a stereotypical bunch of teenagers (the loner, the cheerleader, the nerd, and the slacker) killing zombies while on a school ski trip in Scotland.” So, in the sequel Bobby (the loner) wakes up in a hospital and the conspiracy continues. Slowly she finds her friends and they are off to find Smitty (the slacker) and her mother using clues that were left for Bobby to decode. On their way they encounter zombie children, goats, and cows and are constantly being chased by pharmaceutical foot soldiers. The teens know too much about the Osiris virus and the pharmaceutical companies work with the virus.

Zombie fans who are looking for a light and entertaining read will find this book amusing. If you have already read Undead then you know exactly what to expect. If you haven’t read Undead and want to read a book similar to “The Breakfast Club,” but the students are decapitating zombies during a snowstorm, then you should read the first book. You can’t take either story seriously in the same way you can’t take a movie like “Two-Headed Shark Attack” seriously. Unfed is just meant to be entertaining for zombie’s sake. I liked watching the mystery unfold and I liked how they got the old gang back together. I felt Bobby was a little oblivious in this book and did find this book to be more predictable than its predecessor, but overall I was happy reading another unique story by Kristy McKay. ( )

This is Book II, but I jumped right in and was off and running on a wild adventure with Bobby and her gang.

This young adult zombie novel is a bit different from the norm. It is funny and snarky in a sick way and I had a great time reading it.

Zombie hordes and teenage heroes run AMOK in quarantined Scotland. How did the zombies come to be? Why are they so different from a normal zombie? (Is there such a thing?) They seem to be able to think and figure things out for themselves, albeit slowly.

I loved when Bobby was running and jumping from pipe to pipe like a gymnast above the zombies head. Will she fall? What do you think? I can picture them all on the hospital gurney, barreling down the hospital corridor, plowing through the zombies as they fly right and left, not even bothering to try to get out of the way. There is plenty of blood, guts and body parts flying to satisfy zombie lovers everywhere.

I love Bobby and hate Alice, the whiny pretty girl that never has a hair out of place. Bobby is more of a tomboy. She doesn’t need protecting, she’ll do it herself. Alice is quite the trip. She does nothing but complain. She is not like the innocent Alice in wonderland. But I do wonder about her. Sometimes the one you love to hate can surprise you. Zombinos – kid zombies. Lol

Unfed is well written, fast paced and hilariously funny. Kirsty described the characters so well, I could picture them in my head. And the zombies, well, you will have to find out for yourself. Oh yeah, Kirsty. I hope you are rapidly writing the next book, because I have to know what the future has in store for our teenager heroes.

I won this ARC paperback in a Box o Books giveaway on the Tiffany Loves Books blog. I love adding books to my collection. Thanks Tiffany and Kirsty. ( )

Unfed by Kirsty McKay is the sequel to Undead. Bobby awakes in a hospital and is given a load of bull about what has happened to her cohorts and with the zombie plague. More troubling, is that her mother is apparently dead.

These books work for their remote, unknown (to the protagonist) locations. Before it was a restaurant and a tower. Now it's a hospital — one like she's never seen. To spice things up, the zombies have gotten smarter; this batch can figure out basic puzzles (including closed doors).

The big mystery here isn't what's causing the zombie outbreak — that we know. Now the question is, where's Smitty and what really happened to Bobby's mother. Thus this one is more of a treasure hunt with zombies.

As with the first one, the ending is rather open-ended. As of writing this review, I don't see any mention that a third is planned. As it stands now, the series closes on note similar to that of the ending of the original Italian Job, except that instead of gold threatening to dump our heroes off the Alps to their untimely deaths, it's zombies.

Were a third one published (maybe Un-Zed... haha), I would certainly read it. Were McKay to publish a completely unrelated book, I'd read that too. She has a way with mixing humor and the macabre. ( )