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Meet My Undead Mother-in-law! Did you know, Diane Newby, the undead mother-in-law, has two children?

My mother-in-law, Diane Newby, zombified by accident. She still volunteers at her church bake sales and cooks pot roast for her daughter and son-in-law, Ron Yardley. What ticks her off is when people don’t treat her like a normal human being—with glowing red eyes and super strength and speed. And if she doesn’t get her own way, look out. She explodes and leaves broken plaster and body parts in her wake. Nothing stops her: not brick walls, the federal government, or middle-aged spread.

But the world’s most powerful criminal plans to control zombies. His only problem with zombies is that they have way too much free will. He has a solution for that. But will it work with Diane Newby?

The world divides into pro-zombie and anti-zombie factions. Battles break out everywhere. Which side will you take? Who will live and who will die?

You might not survive this book. But at least you’ll die laughing.

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Meet My Undead Mother-in-law’s Children

The above description of Diane was written by her son-in-law, Ron Yardley.

Meet My Undead Mother-in-law
Karen Yardley — Karen Yardley

Ron is married to Karen the daughter of Diane Newbey who didn’t turn zombie when the rest of her family did.

Diane has a brother, Don. He shows up in Zombie Turkeys.

Donald Newby had been a computer programmer for three years, ever since he got out of college. He’d been paying off his student loans by living in his parents’ basement. That gave him plenty of time for online gaming: DOTA (Defense of the Ancients) was his favorite. Occasionally, he wanted to go out with girls, but he couldn’t figure out how to find one, let alone how to start a conversation with one. He’d read about people meeting in nightclubs and bars, but that didn’t make sense; he didn’t dance or drink.

He vaguely realized he wasn’t a girl’s ideal man: below average height and overweight. He figured he’d just find some girl who wasn’t ideal. Any girl would do, when you had none.

(Excerpt from Don’s introduction in Zombie Turkeys Epilogue.)

Outlandish Fun! Meet My Undead Mother-in-law

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Overall 4 out of 5 stars

Performance 4 out of 5 stars

Story 4 out of 5 stars

Andy Zach continues his unrelenting attack on the horror/zombie genre with outlandish humor. What will society do with the new human zombies after the havoc caused by The Turkey Zombies?!? That was a rhetorical question…so just laugh! 😉
JH & DDDH

Most adorable mother-in-law ever

Overall 4 out of 5 stars
Performance 5 out of 5 stars
Story 4 out of 5 stars

Note: While this is Book 2 in the series, it works pretty well as a stand alone story.

Set several months after the zombie turkey outbreak of Book 1, the contagion continues to pop up in other species. Now that several zombie humans have been created, the government can no longer hide it. In fact, most zombie humans continue to work, play, cook, attend church, and have family get-togethers.

Diane is such a fun mother-in-law! She’s a bit overbearing but ferociously protective of her family. I love her dedication to zombie acceptance and beating down zombie stereotypes. Also, she’s a great brawler. I would not want to be on any team opposing Diane!

The zombie critters were great too! I love that the contaminated corn (the suspected source of the zombie outbreaks) is still the main suspected source of these new zombie species – like snakes and chipmunks. That scene with the rat and the snake hijacking the plane – haha! This story had me chuckling often.
DabOfDarkness

My Undead Mother-in-law Audiobook Review, Part 2

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Best August Videos — Zombie corgi in Scotland from ‘My Undead Mother-in-law’

The Narration: Phil Blechman and Raven Perez continue to do a great job with this series. I love Blechman’s zombie turkey calls – makes me laugh every time no matter how gruesome the scene. Perez was spectacular as Diane – loud, proud, boisterous, hilarious. The technical recording quality is also top notch. Blechman and Perez sound like they are in the same room for the recording. It’s seamless when they trade off or even back and forth in the same conversation. Excellent all around! 5/5 stars.
DabOfDarkness

Great Book! Fun Twist to Zombie Story!

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Overall 5 out of 5 stars
Performance 5 out of 5 stars
Story 5 out of 5 stars

Not your usual zombie story. This one is fun and funny. I laughed several times throughout the story. I’m looking forward to the next installment of the series.
Jared Christensen

Meet My Undead Mother-in-law – “Gotta love these books”

Overall 5 out of 5 stars
Performance 5 out of 5 stars
Story 5 out of 5 stars

Andy Zach has done it again for me, I love the Audiobooks. The Performances by Raven Perez, and Phil Blechman, are outrageously Great. Not too many turkey gobbling sounds in this story, but I can live with that. Read the first book and you’ll understand. All in all, I’d double the number of stars for the first book, and this one if I could.
Walt

My Undead Mother-in-law Audiobook – “Funny”

Overall 5 out of 5 stars
Performance 5 out of 5 stars
Story 5 out of 5 stars

Very entertaining. Didn’t know what to expect other than I thought it would be amusing. It was! I played some for my husband and laughed tears at one point just as I had.
Lisa M.

Perhaps Andy could have titled this Supers’ Origins

Overall 5 out of 5 stars
Performance 5 out of 5 stars
Story 5 out of 5 stars

Is a super story about a super mother in law. father in law, brother and sister in law and a bunch of “Sidekicks” real impressive side kicks. Good triumph over evil through pain and persistence and a real bad villan is finally defeated; or is he? The Narration is outrageously hilarious and so “Camp” that I smile when I think about this listen.

I am becoming a lover of Zombisim, in fact long live Zombies, no perhaps live isn’t quite the right word. Any way If a great listen is what you need these days first listen to Andy’s first book Zombie Turkeys “gooble gooble” and than for a continuous great listen meet the mother in law
Virgil Perryman

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Best 2023 April Books > Ready Player One

I read this book because I finally got into RPG type novels and this one had the reputation as the first.

It’s not an RPG novel like many fantasy type novels I’ve read. It’s much more a dystopian novel with a dominant RPG universe called Oasis. All the world’s society revolves around this game, invented by a pair of batty billionaires.

One billionaire retired and the other died. When he died, the revealed he had placed an Easter Egg, a hidden object in his RPG universe. All he left was a cryptic poem. Find the egg and you’ll get all his billions. People searched relentlessly, to no avail. There were three keys and three gates to be found. No one found the first key.

Then Wade came along. He was a poor kid, parentless, raised by his grandmother and obsessed with finding the egg. He researched exhaustively all the 80s trivia the billionaire loved and joined with the other grunters (egg hunters) in playing and solving old video games from the 80s.

Then one day . . .

This novel is certainly worth reading. Don’t miss it if you love RPG fiction. Or dystopian fiction. Or coming of age novels.

Andy Zach
Author
11 books
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Space escape

Summer boredom is cured by a trip to Space Camp, which results in a trip to space. This is a fun, fast-paced elementary to mid-grade adventure story. Although it’s clear the kids have had prior adventures together, this can be read as standalone.
I liked how they combined their abilities and intelligence to solve problems and support one another. The trivia questions they ask each other are a good way to sneak in some history and facts without a lecture.
The way we get to hear the villains plotting is great. They almost steal the show.
Khai Lannor did a good job with the story as well as voicing adults and all the different kids.

Ysobella Black
03-29-23