Love in an Undead Age delivers what the title promises, and more: an intelligent, badass woman out to save a world where romance isn’t dead but neither are the zombies that hunger for human flesh. But there’s a religious dimension to her quest: she’s working with Jesuits, including the expedition’s leader Father Doug Michel and her wise old mentor Father Walter.

It’s difficult for me to be objective about this book because I’m mentioned in the Acknowlegments (sic), but I found myself breathlessly caught up in the action scenes as I read it out loud in our living room. I didn’t know anything about the location or about the tactical details of battle (I was today years old when I learned you can put a pin back into a grenade to keep it from blowing up), but that never got in the way of my enjoyment. And the love scenes are a lot hotter than you’d expect for a book with a bunch of Jesuits running around!