How many boys could LITERALLY offer you their heart?Winner of the 2017 IndieReader Discovery Awards (Humor)“Stella is no Bella… Not your run-of-the-mill zombie book, this title has heart.” – School Library Journal“Lynch’s work is overflowing with wit.” – The Booklife Prize”…funny and irreverent.” (Foreword Reviews) ”…awesomely sarcastic and completely witty.” (YA Books Central)Stella … Prize
”…funny and irreverent.” (Foreword Reviews)
”…awesomely sarcastic and completely witty.” (YA Books Central)
Stella Blunt’s world is ending. Her parents have dragged her across the country, and she has to start over in a new school. This is a big problem because she doesn’t make friends easily: she’s large, she’s loud, and years of being bullied have left her bitter and defensive. Within days, Stella has alienated half the school.
Only one person seems to like her: Howard Mullins, the shy geek in her Chemistry class. He’s the biggest loser in school, but he’s a great listener, he’s smart at science, and he loves her for her mind. He also drinks brains from a thermos and walks with a lurch.
Now undead hordes are showing up at her door, and Howard Mullins might be to blame. Stella is forced to decide what she believes and who she trusts. Will she take a chance on love?
….Or will she take it out with a chainsaw?
Laugh out loud at this award-winning, irreverent twist on Twilight from C.L. Lynch, who thinks zombies and big girls deserve love, too.
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I was not expecting this book, which is apparently a spoof on Twilight, to be this awesome and hilarious and sweet. Stella Blunt is an amazing heroine, her parents are goddamn funny, and Howie, my God, Howie breaks my heart. The BEST leading zombie of all time. The writing is genius, true genius.
I Loved this book! I added it to my KU Queue months ago and kept passing it up. When I finally picked it up I could not put it down. I realized a few chapters in that I had been smiling just about the whole time I had been reading. There were several laugh out loud moments as well. Stella is a real girl. She has opinions, mood swings, curves and a penchant for violence (when necessary of course) She is also a bit impulsive. The dynamic between Stella and her parents was great too (one of my favorite things about this book). It was great that she wasn’t a teenager running wild like they are in so many other stories. Stella’s story is compared to Bella’s (well…look at the cover) but, while there are similarities, it wasn’t a ‘retelling’ of the twilight saga with zombies. Speaking of zombies… I, admittedly, don’t read many zombie books so I can’t compare this to any others. I will say that the zombie world created here is well rounded. I didn’t find too many logic holes which was helped in part to Stella’s questions (she’s very logical). The author did well with her creation of this world, I didn’t feel like I had to stretch my imagination during my ‘visit’.
This book is not my usual kind of read, but I am so glad I took a chance on it. I never would’ve expected a YA zombie romance to pack this kind of emotional power – it was full of heart and wit and I fell in love from page one!
Chemistry (Stella Blunt Book 1) Kindle Edition
by C.L. Lynch (Author)
I borrowed this book via the Kindle Unlimited program. I am choosing to leave a fair and honest review.
Dingweasel. If you get nothing else from this priceless and hysterical book, write down some of the insults. Dingweasal. Llamabreath. And many more.
It is the humor and the dialogue that make this book so incredibly readable. This is Twilight for peole who prefer their dead to be part of the zombie breed.
This is the antidote to Twilight. Not insipid. No shining creatures of the night. The heroine doesn’t behave like a co-dependent pile of mush. She is strong, angry, the new girl in high school and a plus sized girl who takes no guff and seems to attract the one person in her new high school who is less popular than she, the mysterious, quiet and odd Howard.
Howard is drawn to her, but he has a secret. He isn’t exactly alive anymore. And neither is his family.
Told from Stella’s first person POV, I was laughing myself silly as I tore through the book. This is a perfect answer to Twilight and is the exact opposite, where the Heroine is in control of everything. There are multiple digs littered throughout that will please both fans of Twilight and naysayers.
I am off to get the next book, History.
5 stars out of 5
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Stella is a plus sized teen who has just been informed by her parents that they are moving across Canada to Vancouver so her mom can start a new job. Stella dreads the prospect of starting a new school with new bullies when she just started to fit in at her old school. On Stella’s first day she meets Howie, the school’s biggest “loser” and seemingly garner’s his undivided attention. Howie has some secrets of his own that Stella is determined to find out about.
I enjoyed Chemistry because of body positive image the main character towards herself even though sometimes she can still be self-deprecating at times. Howie is adorable with his undying devotion, quite literally.
The story would have been better for me if Stella wasn’t so short fused all the time. At some points it gets to be overwhelming and you grow concern for her blood pressure.
I especially loved Stella’s courage when she encountered bullies at her school. She did not shrink away from confrontation and stood up for her beliefs. And her kung fu came in handy when fighting off zombies. Oh yeah, this is a zombie story.
This book was about a high school girl who is a big feisty as a self-preservation tactic who falls in love with a boy who turns out to be a vampire. I never would have thought I would like this book, but I really, really did!
Not a better love story than Twilight…
When I saw that this was supposed to be a parody of Twilight, I was expecting something a little bit different. I didn’t know it would be exactly like Twilight except with zombies instead of vampires. It’s unfortunate because the author had some good ideas when it came to the source of the zombie outbreak and the way that zombies exist in the world. I’ve never read any ideas like it. However, I couldn’t stand how closely the plot followed that of Twilight. In some areas, I had to skim through.
With that being said, I did love the characters in this book. Stella in particular had me laughing out loud on a few occasions because of her abrasiveness and just how little she cared about what others thought of her. I felt like she and Howie balanced each other well and made for some interesting conversations and character contrasts.
Read at your own risk. If you didn’t like Twilight, I wouldn’t really recommend this book since it feels quite similar. However, as I mentioned above, the ideas the author had about zombies were really original so for zombie fans this might definitely be a book worth reading. All depends on what you’re looking for in a book.
Great Fiction Atwist.
This is a very humorous and suspenseful book. Well written and gently takes one into the story line plot. Starts out with a smart and snarky tall “heavy” teen in a new high school. What wacky, loving, supportive parents she has. Meets up with a cute skinny glass wearing nerd? His adoration is her discomfort. She gets Bullies, trying to make new friends and cynically battles this new feeling production of romance. Oh and he eventually tells her his medical problem. He is a zombie in remission. And then it goes on. Way to make a no zombie book reader read a zombie book.
It was fun and enjoyable.
Really awesome read!! Wonderfully written with great characters and very original storyline!! Can’t wait to read History/Book 2!!