Bad Taste in Boys
Carrie Harris
Dell
c/o The Random House Publishing Group
www.bantamdell.com
9780385739689, $17.99 www.amazon.com
“Bad Taste in Boys” is the first of a series of YA horror novels of the character Kate Grable. High school student Kate Grable dreams of one day being a doctor so she helps out the football team with first aid. She works with the team and stumbles on the fact that the coach is giving the athletes something that she thinks are steroids. She learns instead that something is happening, turning the football players into zombies. As she delves further she realizes there are other students who are also turning into zombies. What she has to do is find a way to stop it from continuing. The story unfolds at a fast pace with interesting characters and shows among other things problems young adults have in high school. Any fan of horror should enjoy “Bad Taste in Boys.”
