My Zombie Dog Audiobook by Charmaine Clancy
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Title: My Zombie Dog
Author: Charmaine Clancy
Narrator: Lucas Smith
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-06-17
Publisher: Author's Republic
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10
Publisher's Summary:
Take one shy teenage boy, a dopey best mate, a granny who's lost her marbles (and teeth), a kid sister who bites back and a smelly demon dog. What you'll get is My Zombie Dog.
All Zane wants for his birthday is a dog. A real dog. A guy's dog. But his mum brings home this little mutt and wants to call it 'Fluffy'. Seriously? It's shaggy, smells undead and bites people. And why do its victims all turn sluggish and keep asking Zane for brains? One by one, everyone he knows is becoming infected. Join Zane as he takes on the neighbourhood zombie plague.
Members Reviews:
New Take on an Old Trope
I'm a sucker for dog stories, but I am NOT a zombie fan. I doubt I would have tried this book if I hadn't "met" Charmaine Clancy online, where she charmed me with her humor and her progress reports on this project. The cover was the last ... nail in my coffin? I knew I HAD TO HAVE THIS BOOK.
I wasn't sorry. It's a quick read, and sheer fun all the way through. Zane is a believable youngster -- in fact, all the characters ring true, even the zombie dog.
Although this is a YA book, I'm a grandmother and I thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact, I'm going to take my eReader to my mother's house and read this to her. I love it when she snorts raspberry tea out her nose.
MA
Did You Ever Own a Zombie Pet?
Charmaine Clancy's My Zombie Dog, completely captured my attention. I almost couldn't put it down, even when the food was burning in the oven. Just kidding! Seriously, this is a riveting story!
The typical audience for this novel is tweens and teens. However, even adults can get absorbed and lost into this twisting, fast-paced tale. The language is simple, and Clancy really gets into the head of her 14 year old main character, Zane. He has the typical tone of voice, language and common issues of any teen. Clancy demonstrates her understanding of the youth and captures it in this story; her ability to fully live the teen character is rarely found among writers to such an extent. She amazed me with her characterizations of all of her main characters.
What's not to love? We have 14 year old Zane who is trying to enjoy his birthday, but it is turning into a miserable one. We have his mother who is bitter about her husband leaving her two months before. We have a Granny that visits them once a month, but has practically lost most of her memory and thinks their home is a restaurant or some other place. His sweet, innocent little sister Elise melts our hearts. And his best friend Kev is a bit strange; the kind of strange that one day might land him on death row. And then there is the crush Zane has on Molly who is a bright girl with a dog, too. And the central character who starts all of this chaos is an ugly, smelly mutt his mother picked up through a weird newspaper ad. His Mum named her "Fluffy", but Zane convinced her to call the undead dog "Fossil". What kind of teenage boy would have a dog named Fluffy, anyway?
This story is not only entertaining, but it addresses some teen issues and Zane's family problems. By the end of the book, Zane appreciates his mother more than he did at the beginning. We find that Zane has grown as a person and is somehow changed.
Clancy adds her own style of humor, and there are some hilarious moments in this book. Zane cannot get Fossil to stop biting people.