When I received an ARC of this book from the publishers I was incredibly thrilled. It sounded like the kind of book that I would love and I anticipated that it would be a 4 or 5 star read. just from the synopsis. I'm a lover of horror and especially zombies so a book with a synopsis that starts with 'Shifters, Zombies and Vampires? Oh my! got me all excited. In fact, I was so excited to read it that I put all other books on hold whilst I got stuck in to this one. BIG mistake! This book slowly and painfully killed me off!
Many times I almost gave up on the book but decided to keep going in the hope that it would get better. It DIDN'T!
In attempting to describe Dorothy's world as grey, dull and boring the author actually succeeds in making the story grey, dull and boring. I'm not sure if the book was purposely written in an old English style like classics are written or not but it just didn't work. I spotted several errors that I assume were typos but may have been the author using the wrong word, and there were also numerous oddly worded phrases. The book reads as if a non native English speaker has written it, in that stilted and formal way someone like that would write / speak.
I found it very difficult to get to know the characters as none of their personalities and ages came through due to the formal language used. I assume Dorothy is a young teenager as she mentions attending school yet she speaks like an adult.
I would have thought that this book would be aimed at a YA audience but unfortunately I just don't think that they would be able to connect with the book.
Overall I couldn't find any flaws with the plot. The premise sounded amazing. It was just incredibly poorly executed.

Received an eArc from Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

This is a wild and wacky retalling of the Oz stories involving vampires, werewolves, and zombies.

The humor is spot on and it's just gory enough!