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Eat Your Heart Out (2011)

af Dayna Ingram

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A breakneck tale of kick-ass, wise-ass, sexy-ass lesbians and zombies, Eat Your Heart Out opens on what promises to be another tediously annoying day at Ashbee's Furniture Outlet. Then the strip-mall calm of Nowhere, Ohio, is shattered by the sudden, simultaneous appearance of Renni Ramirez-hyper-competent star of the beloved Rising Evil B-movie franchise-and actual zombies, leaving Ashbee's hapless staff and Renni trapped behind an automatic door they can't lock. Can failed creative-writing student/apprentice store manager/eagle-eyed markswoman Devin escape the besieged furniture store to rescue her girlfriend? Will Renni's experience slaughtering motion-captured CGI monsters save the day before the army bombs the town? Once bitten, how many zombies can a person expect to take out before succumbing to infection? Who is the mysterious Deus Ex Machina, and what is he doing with that bone saw? All of these questions and more whisper behind the scream of the single most important thing Devin needs to know in order to survive: is Renni a top or a bottom?… (mere)
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This was kind of fun, but also really weird. And the ending was so anticlimatic that even the characters pointed it out, so, you know, at least it's self-aware.

content warning for cheating, zombies, some gore, vomit, probably more I forgot ( )
  runtimeregan | Jun 12, 2019 |
Eat Your Heart Out is funny as heck in many parts and very touching in others. It unravels in your mind like a fast-paced movie, much better in your imagination than it probably ever could be captured on film. Dayna Ingram is a smart, snappy writer who takes what other writers would never be able to lift off the ground and keeps in running till you reach the end and wish it could start over again! This is a fun, enjoyable read that makes you fervently hope Ms. Ingram is at work on more fiction!:) ( )
  booksandcats4ever | Jul 30, 2018 |
This afternoon I decided to read this book because of the "author's review" I read on Amazon. It made me laugh so I gave it go. It was fun, and amusing, and funny, and I wasn't disappointed. It's a zombie story, but not really. It's not a romance disguised as horror (yay!), but it does have a romantic element. It's a couple of messed up characters in a messed up situation doing the best they can. Did I mention it's fun? Yes? Well, I thought it was and I'm glad I gave it a shot. ( )
  Amy_Jesionowski | Nov 3, 2015 |
Layers of Fun!

Twenty-two-year-old furniture saleswoman Devin is the unlikeliest of heroes: She's prone to fainting spells. She's socially awkward and has trouble approaching customers (Her coworker Cherry's advice? Just picture everyone with a giant penis in their mouth!) or carrying on "normal" "adult" conversations (Scare quotes because who wants to act like a grownup anyway?). She tends to wet her pants when threatened. She's completely oblivious to the fact that her longtime girlfriend, the improbably named Carmelle Souffle, is cheating on her (and, when she finds out, she immediately faints...and then forgives Carmelle).

And she manages to get herself bit just hours into the zombie apocalypse that sweeps through Buttfuck, Ohio. Sure, she was trying to rescue her big bear of a boss, Biff, at the time, but still. Rookie mistake!

The plot of Eat Your Heart Out: a novella is pretty standard zombie fare: the dead start rising, and so the living try to get the heck out of dodge. Luckily, the plot is mostly incidental to Dayna Ingram's expert wordslinging. Ingram's got a wicked fun sense of humor and a delightful potty mouth. The pop culture references are many; the fangirl angle, fun and kind of meta (reminiscent of some of the better episodes of Supernatural, I think); the disembodied, floating penises, epically hilarious; and the lesbian subplots pretty much seal the deal.

The cast is rather diverse, with no fewer than four lesbians and/or bisexual women, and one woman of color in the form of movie star Renni Fucking Ramirez, of the zombie-movie-with-an-arguably-lesbian-subtext, Rising Evil. Girlfriend Carmelle is a former stripper who works at an adult store, The Sweet Onion ("Layers of Fun!"). Even though she's the cheater (Devin catches her in the act when she gallantly kicks down the doors of The Sweet Onion in order to "save" Carmelle), Ingram portrays their slowly crumbling relationship with such compassion and nuance that I kind of felt bad for the both of them. (Though the ambiguous resolution is a relief.)

Devin's aforementioned loose bladder is also a welcome surprise; so few horror writers acknowledge the indignities of human biology in life-or-death situations. (Again, I'm reminded of Supernatural - specifically, "The Mystery Spot," wherein one of Dean's many deaths involves vehicular manslaughter. "Did it look cool, like in the movies?" "You peed yourself." "Of course I peed myself. Man gets hit by a car, you think he has full control over his bladder? Come on!") Devin's references to her overactive bladder are many, and she soils more than one pair of clean (well, save for the zombie guts) pants by letting loose. I can relate; if I were to ever find myself in a zombie apocalypse, I'd be carrying around a package of Depends alongside my machete and MREs.

Devin's copious knowledge of zombie lore - not to mention, her expertise at dropping zombies, thanks in no small part to first-person shooter games - opens yet another avenue of self-referential comedic fodder.

Eat Your Heart Out is the most fun I've had reading a zombie book in a long while. With kick-ass heroines, witty banter, cultural references like whoah, girl-on-girl love triangles, and a Nick Fury lookalike, you just can't go wrong. The zombies are just icing on the cake. (Vegan buttercream, because that poor vegetarian zombie deserves a break!)

http://www.easyvegan.info/2014/02/24/eat-your-heart-out-a-novella-by-dayna-ingra... ( )
  smiteme | Feb 20, 2014 |
I'm not usually a zombie fan, but apparently when you give me a wry, dorky butch dyke narrator whose life is a disaster *before* the living dead show up, I make an exception. This was fun and entertaining (and gross, as zombies tend to be!) and a quick read, easy to devour (heh) in an afternoon.

I feel like it started more strongly than it ended; the last quarter threw a lot of ideas at the zombie problem all at once, and the chaos didn't serve the overall story very well. But it was still a good time overall, and if you're in it for the giddy, trashy fun of it -- hot girls shoot zombies and also make out a little -- then it's totally worth a read. And too-good-to-be-true badass B-movie star Rennie Ramirez is my new fiction crush. ( )
  LaylahHunter | Oct 3, 2012 |
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A breakneck tale of kick-ass, wise-ass, sexy-ass lesbians and zombies, Eat Your Heart Out opens on what promises to be another tediously annoying day at Ashbee's Furniture Outlet. Then the strip-mall calm of Nowhere, Ohio, is shattered by the sudden, simultaneous appearance of Renni Ramirez-hyper-competent star of the beloved Rising Evil B-movie franchise-and actual zombies, leaving Ashbee's hapless staff and Renni trapped behind an automatic door they can't lock. Can failed creative-writing student/apprentice store manager/eagle-eyed markswoman Devin escape the besieged furniture store to rescue her girlfriend? Will Renni's experience slaughtering motion-captured CGI monsters save the day before the army bombs the town? Once bitten, how many zombies can a person expect to take out before succumbing to infection? Who is the mysterious Deus Ex Machina, and what is he doing with that bone saw? All of these questions and more whisper behind the scream of the single most important thing Devin needs to know in order to survive: is Renni a top or a bottom?

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