Sam Melvin, an underachieving e-reporter from a small town, changes forever when he meets turkeys that won’t stay dead. You can shoot ‘em, chop ‘em, burn ‘em—they come back stronger. The undead plague of poultry spreads uncontrollably, rocking the whole country. As Sam tracks down the zombie turkeys and how to eradicate them, his editor, Lisa Kambacher, nags him to turn his stories and expenses … expenses in on time. During their years of working together, Lisa has mellowed from bitchy into an irascible pinchpenny.
Lisa snipes at Sam for plebeian writing but uses her intelligence to pursue the lucrative carnivorous turkey story. Sam and Lisa ricochet across the landscape, tracking turkeys and fleeing the bloodthirsty hordes. Careening from shell-shocked grocery store owners fighting turkeys crawling out of refrigerators, to machine-gunning turkey farmers, to secret militia, Sam and Lisa doggedly report. Throughout the turkey apocalypse, they dare ravaged cities, plow knee deep in gore and corpses, and upload streams of zombie turkey video news to the world.
With paranoid militias clashing with the federal gover¬¬¬nment and unkillable turkeys, Sam and Lisa doubt their ability to survive. Sam and Lisa have no superpowers. If you have a heart condition or lack humor, you should not read Zombie Turkeys, no matter how much you want to find out what happens.
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This is brilliant! A really enjoyable amusing read! When I saw the tittle it was a must to be read! Brilliant idea! Got to chuckle! I do always find this writers work very well written & with something you are never expecting! I do strongly recommend!
This was a fun listen! Sam Melvin is a reporter for a small newspaper in a small town. When people start being attacked by turkeys, Sam is on the job! As the first one to report the outbreak of a disease turning the turkeys into zombies, Sam is busy trying to find the flock and let the world know what is happening.
The story follows numerous attacks by the hoard of turkeys and the various ways that people try to fight them off. There is a little romance along the way for a few couples, even in the face of possible death. Add in the backstory of online news and entrepreneurship, a football game turned zombie fight and a great white shark and you have some great scenes!
The author does a great job with his descriptions of the zombie turkeys and the action that ensues when they attack. There is enough science thrown in to make the story more believable and this definitely gave me a pause for thought.
The narrators did a great job and I will definitely be hearing the turkey gobble in my head for a long, long time! If you are looking for a humorous way to spend a few hours, you won’t be disappointed.
I reviewed a copy of the audio book from the author in exchange for my honest review, and here it is. First book read/ listen from Andy Zach, and I’m totally hook. can’t wait to hear/ RAF the remaining series. the story line is very entertaining, and the way they perform (yes perform not read) the book was perfect. Love the sound affects, they just made the story come to live. This story had it all, from killer zombies, love, mystery, and action. it’s a must read/ hear. I totally recommended.
A friend recommended Zombie Turkeys, and I’m glad I listened. It’s a fun, easy to read and light horror comedy romp featuring –you guessed it–a flock of seemingly unstoppable zombie turkeys. The story is told through the work of two small-town reporters who cover the carnage the growing flock of undead fouls leave in their trace. And sometimes, to great effect, we get the story from the point of view of the turkeys! A nice, fun distraction.
Zombie Turkeys is not as bad as one would expect a book about zombie turkeys to be. It was campy, which was good, but it was also cheesy, which was bad. It was action-packed, which was good, but it also dragged on at the end, which was bad. The male narrator did some crazy voice work (including a passable imitation of Barack Obama), which was good, but the female narrator didn’t differentiate much between her different characters, which was bad. What does it mean to say a book broke even? I don’t know, but that’s what Zombie Turkeys did for me.
***Update- So it has been over 3 years since I rated and reviewed this book, and I still catch myself saying “Zombie Turkeys”. I bought an autographed copy of the book. I bring it up in conversation repeatedly. I’ve ordered an autographed copy of the sequel “Zombie Detective”. I am bumping the rating up to four stars, even though the things I wrote above are still true. Sometimes a book just gets into your head, and I think that speaks volumes for any title.***