Brains For Lunch: A Zombie Novel In Haiku?! (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
I did not really like this book for a couple reasons. There wasnt really much of a plot and it was boring. Thats why i would only give this book two stars. But not one star because I can see how it would be hard to write a book with just haikus. What I did like about this book though, was its creativity.About half way through this book I started to realize that it didnt really have a plot. It was just a bunch of things zombies would do. There wasnt a purpose. Whcih maybe makes sense since it was written with just haikus. But if you are going to write a book out of just haikus, then you need a plot.Since this book didnt have a plot or a purpose, I found it pretty boring. It was even hard for me to keep reading, but luckily it was a short book and I was able to finish it quickly. Whcih might be a bad thing about the book, being short and all, but to me that was another thing I liked.Besides being short, I liked the creativity in this book. I thought some parts of it were very creative. First off who thinks of writing a zombie book in haikus? I thought that was creative, and just the whole book was creative in general. Also some seens in the book were funny and unexpected. For example the zombie said he was given the finger, and then he gave it back. I thought that was funny because he was litteraly given a middle finger.So overall I didnt really like this book because there was no plot and it was boring. But I think I have to give it two stars for creativity and humor. I dont know if I would recomend this book to anyone though. Because if I did then that person might not want anymore recomendations from me. Last month, I met K.A. Holt at the Highlight's Foundation Novels in Verse workshop. She's a great lady with a sharp sense of humor and a quirky personality, and that shines through in her zombie novel-in-verse Brains for Lunch.Told in Haiku, this is the short, sassy story of Loeb, a depressed zombie at an integrated school. He deals with the scorn of the Lifers every day, not to mention his sometimes disgusting zombie peers. But a pretty girl and a librarian might be just the ones to break Loeb out of his undead shell!Fans of poetry, young and old, will adore this book. Holt's use of Haiku is unique and ideal: I'm convinced that zombies really would speak 5-7-5.
What do You think about Brains For Lunch: A Zombie Novel In Haiku?! (2010)?
Zombies, chupacabras and all in haiku. Can't get better than that.
—eleanax
"Fun stuff, great for reluctant readers." - Becky
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