This was an extremely well written book. Just in a not-my-fav genre, hence the 4 stars.

Imagining those white-hooded K-named menaces as zombies? A great premise. It had me thinking of Sartre, the way such a racist ideology turns someone into a zombie like false consciousness makes the un-critical server “all waiter”.

And this book was a love letter to early 20th century African American languages and accents (including Gullah and Creole). Which the audiobook narrator absolutely nailed! She narrated this book like she was voicing a movie. It was incredible. But I don’t know if I’ll ever give a horror book 5 stars. I’m with Sartre—l’enfer, c’est les autres. For me, the scariness factor gets turned down a notch for when horror books reimagine monstrous people as literal monsters.

But if K clan zombies (and sword wielding African American zombie killers) sounds cool to you, this novella will knock your socks off—especially the audiobook!