Heartbeat

by Lori R. Lopez

Overview

After the Zombie Apocalypse, civilization adapts to troubled times. But can the living and the undead co-exist in peace? A zombie defender must question his principles when a hunter becomes infected by the zombie plague and threatens the boy's mother in "Heartbeat". A group of young zombie sympathizers are the only thing standing between the diseased and their hunters, who collect a fee for each undead bagged. It's a new world where humans have learned to lead semi-normal lives despite the zombie plague. But when a zombie protector's mother is endangered by a bitten hunter, a boy must question his beliefs and make a choice: protect the zombies or his mom. This is a different zombie tale, one told with humor as well as horror, from the perspective of a young man wrestling to do the right thing in a world gone wrong.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013866775
Publisher:	Fairy Fly Entertainment
Publication date:	12/18/2011
Series:	Heartbeat , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	605 KB

About the Author

The bond between mother and child is a sacred theme explored in various ways by Lori R. Lopez. Her writing offers flashes of reality amidst the fiction and fantasy, the horror and suspense. She likes to keep readers guessing like April Fools . . . Her favorite paranormal trope is ghosts, or maybe monsters. Especially monsters she has put together with needle and thread or a squeeze-bottle of glue. Sometimes the creatures are all in her head, swimming around in a kettle of stew. Sometimes they lurch out of her past or cast tendrils and tentacles from the shadows. But they share a defining element in common. The nasty gnarly nightbeasts love to pop up and squeal or growl “Surprise!” at inopportune moments, such as the shower, the sink, the table, the store. Wherever they pounce, she is grateful to expel them. Exorcise them. Empty them into a tale, a chapter, a boiling pot of Inspiration . . . Nothing is worse than bottling demons and critters inside your skull or chest until you burst! Lori is the mother of two sons who possess multiple talents like the limbs of a Kraken. They are more inclined to predict a Robot Apocalypse or Dragon Apocalypse than a Zombie Apocalypse. Lori herself believes in things that go bump in the night, as well as mischievous evil elves who tie knots in hair (it’s the only possible explanation). Lori also believes that some things happen for a reason, while some things do not happen for a reason to balance out the things that do. She tends to believe in the Spirit World more than the Fairytale World, although she would like to believe half-a-dozen impossible things before breakfast and a dozen impossible things by supper. And she wouldn’t mind a final impossibility for dessert to make it a nice round odd thirteen.

Editorial Reviews

Lori Lopez is one of the most talented new authors I've read in the last decade. Lori's writing is flawless. She's the first self-published author I've seen whose work isn't riddled with grammatical errors. . . . This story is the kind you start reading after your coffee cup is full and you've found a comfortable spot to snuggle into. You'll need to prepare yourself to read it and make sure you won't be disturbed for a while, because once you start there is no stopping!

Goodreads - Tiffiny Sarradet

Once again, Ms. Lopez has caught me in her web and drawn me into suspension of disbelief. This time she only took one paragraph to do it. . . . The zombies have taken to the streets . . . But all will be well if only the government would take on the care and feeding of them. After all they are, or were, citizens, aren't they? Into the chasm of neglect come the self described geeks. Zombies have been around their entire lives. There is nothing new here. But feeding them? Now that takes genius.

Parents' Little Black Book - Karen Bryant Doering

Favorite zombie book: The best zombie story I've read so far. I love how the author wrote the main character's voice. He was fun to read. He is a zombie protector with a group of his friends. Something has happened to his mother's boyfriend and he was left with two choices: kill zombies or protect his mother. It was a wild and fun read. It was a quick read too. Highly recommended to everyone to check this out. I most certainly want to keep reading anything Lori R. Lopez had written.

HEARTS ON FIRE; Goodreads Review

Bittersweet. This is a zombie tale with a difference. . . . This is an interesting take on the zombie genre. Zombies have become the norm but are still more or less shunned by society, but there is a group of boys who 'sympathise' with them and their plight whilst still realising how dangerous they are. . . . Beautifully written with great pathos. I recommend this.

WISTFULSKIMMIE BOOK REVIEWS; Amazon U.K. - Kim Tomsett

Lori's story is exceptional! Her writing is superior, better than most of today's well known [authors] and of equal caliber as [writers] like Stephen King and John Grisham. With a writing style that is unique and masterful, her descriptive writing is flawless. Lori captivated me with her opening paragraph. No, her first sentence actually hooked me. . . . Take a bow Lori R. Lopez, you are an incredible author!

Amazon and Goodreads Review - Quinn Cullen