Zombie Turkeys: Dark Humor How an Unknown Blogger Fought Unkillable Turkeys (The Life After Life Chronicles Book 1)

Zombie Turkeys: Dark Humor How an Unknown Blogger Fought Unkillable Turkeys (The Life After Life Chronicles Book 1)

Andy Zach

  • 3.9 out of 5
  • 103 ratings
  • 187 pages
  • PG-13
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Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13

This is a satirical zombie-comedy about undead turkeys overrunning towns, farms, stores, and media events. Small-town reporters and locals join police, military, and eccentric townsfolk to investigate and fight the outbreak while the story pokes fun at preparedness culture and news hype. Parents should expect frequent cartoonish violence against birds and peril for people, with blood and gore described in a silly rather than realistic way, plus mild language and a short non-sexual nude protest scene. Customer notes mention light romance between lead characters, minimal gore for some readers, and family-friendly humor, though other notes allow for a few gory set pieces.

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Profanity Mild

13

A handful of mild swear words and rough labels appear in exclamations and banter during turkey attacks and reporting scenes. Some customer notes describe the book as having little or no swearing; the sampled matches still show occasional language.

Amazon reviews mentioning profanity

Specific words
  • hell: 9
  • bastard: 2
  • damn: 2

Sex Mild

1

There is a brief scene of non-sexual public nudity tied to an animal-rights protest, with bodies obscured by body paint rather than intimate description.

Amazon reviews mentioning sex

Specific words
  • nude: 1

Violence Moderate

54

Comedy-horror action centers on flocks of hostile undead turkeys pecking, kicking, and chasing people. Blood, bleeding injuries, splattering, and turkey gore recur, often exaggerated for humor; weapons include guns, blades, fire, and vehicles. Human harm includes bites, amputations, and deaths, but tone stays satirical rather than grim.

Amazon reviews mentioning violence

Specific words
  • blood: 29
  • bleed: 9
  • kick: 8
  • smash: 5
  • gore: 2
  • stab: 1

About this book

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 in on time. During their years of working together, Lisa has mellowed 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 government 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. Read more