What can I say about Till Undeath Do Us Part?

Well, first of all, it might be the saddest horror book I've ever read. I didn't find it scary, or even unsettling. Jack was simply sad. And kinda stupid. We'll get to the stupid part later.

This book features flashbacks to showcase the relationship between Jack and his wife Linda. We get to see their first date, and meeting the parents, and the wedding and other small glimpses. Everything to underline how amazingly in love these two people were. We also get flashbacks of the beginning of the Zombie Apocalypse, when Linda was still alive.

The present in the book however, features Jack alone. Jack looking at fences, Jack counting supplies. And jack feeding chicken to his zombie wife chained up in the spare bedroom.

And this is the stupid part. While Jack's story is usually not the Main Character of a Zombie book, we've seen this kind of behavior from side characters. Mad men keeping their wives, husbands or children chained up and feeding. Jack however, isn't mad in that sense, isn't sacrificing humans to his loved ones. He's just an overall OK dude.

So what is he doing? He's feeding chickens to his wife. Trying to rehabilitate her back to normal. And that's okay, in an he's-a-little-crazy kind of way. But everything in the book, all the tension, was "he's running out of chickens, what will he do now to feed Linda?"

And the stupid part? He used to have a rooster, he had roosters and chickens. And since the Zombies in this book would happily eat animals, if he'd kept the rooster alive, he'd have an endless supply of new chicks to give his wife.
But no, no no, he brought the rooster to his dead wife, since the rooster was her favorite, and she ate it. It was how he found out she could eat animals. But still, if you're going to try to keep your zombie wife alive, trying to give them live animals seems to be like the first step.

But maybe I'm being too harsh on poor old Jack. He was in shock, he was traumatized and in denial over an event that had just happened. But still, he had the perfect setup, and he fucked it up.

So the story starts, with Jack having to make a trip into town to find Linda something to eat.

The one thing this book did for me however, was find a line in the sand that is unacceptable in my relationship. Jack crossed it, he did the ultimate sin, and I'll be having this conversation with my husband later. And if you're married to your soulmate, maybe you need to read this book and have that conversation with your spouse too.