Bad Taste in Boys by Carrie Harris

Title: Bad Taste in Boys	Loved it	Graded
Author: Carrie Harris
Genre: Paranormal
Publisher: Delacorte
Elements: Zombies
Series: Book 1 of the Kate Grable series

Someone's been a very bad zombie.

Kate Grable is horrified to find out that the football coach has given the team steroids. Worse yet, the steroids are having an unexpected effect, turning hot gridiron hunks into mindless flesh-eating zombies. No one is safe--not her cute crush Aaron, not her dorky brother, Jonah . . . not even Kate!

She's got to find an antidote--before her entire high school ends up eating each other. So Kate, her best girlfriend, Rocky, and Aaron stage a frantic battle to save their town. . . and stay hormonally human.

BTiB had so much potential. It could have been hilarious and campy, with some science that would blow my mind away with its simplicity. Instead it seemed like it was trying too hard to be all of that at once, and failed on all accounts.

The characters were roughly drawn at best with the exception of Kate. Jonah was a bit more believable, being Kate's younger brother who tries to protect her, which was endearing. Kate and Jonah's relationship was the saving grace of this book, and what gave it an extra one or two points. Her crush and best friend had some pretty cute moments with Kate, but I honestly can't recall any of them.

Kate, oh Kate. I went along with some of her actions, but at times it crossed over from bad B-list horror movie to bad B-list horror movie spoofs. Her actions were so far from believable that I just- Look, if your friend's finger broke in your hand, you shouldn't keep it to yourself. Both the fact and the finger. The rest of the characters didn't even notice, which makes me laugh now, but I wasn't laughing then.

As for the zombie curse and the cure, the science was not believable, even in a plot-moving way. The pacing was awkward, and the scenes jumped about such that I couldn't remember when they had gotten from the school to home. The resolution was unsurprising, and there were a lot of plot holes.

This book just didn't leave any impact on me, not even emotionally. The best I could say is that it was fun while I read it, and unfortunately once I finished the book, I quickly forgot and moved on.