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Dust
A young, A young, female zombie wants to tell you her story. . Zombies are the new vampires! From classic George Romero horror films to the hugely successful Shaun of the Dead they are a prominent feature on our cultural landscape. Dust is a unique and appealing twist on the zombie genre, avoiding all the clichés and telling a thoughtful and moving story instead. Dust is a nail-bitingly good zombie romp that magically morphs into anintelligent treatise on life, death and the fallibility of being human. With its engaging protagonist Jessica, and a host of well-imagined supporting characters - both alive and undead - Dust is a cut above the rest Buffy actress Amber Benson. Dust follows Jessie and her gang of fellow zombies as they battle themselves, humans and a plague that is targeting all humanoids ... Dust can be read on many levels without taking away from the energy of the narrative Amanda Foreman, Telegraph After she was buried, Jessie awoke and tore through the earth to arise, reborn, as a zombie. Jessie\'s gang is the Fly-by-Nights. She loves the ancient, skeletal Florian and his memories of time gone by. She\'s in love with Joe, a maggot-infested corpse. They fight, hunt, dance together as one-something humans can never understand. There are dark places humans have learned to avoid, lest they run into the zombie gangs. But now, Jessie and the Fly-by-Nights have seen new creatures in the woods-things not human and not zombie. A strange new illness has flamed up out of nowhere, causing the undeads to become more alive and the living to exist on the brink of death. As bits and pieces of the truth fall around Jessie, like the flesh off her bones, she\'ll have to choose between looking away or staring down the madness-and hanging onto everything she has come to know as life