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In the follow-up to Shakespeare Undead, vampire William Shakespeare and his Dark Lady
are stranded on a mystical island where zombies are plentiful and one man will stop at nothing to become all-powerful
Fresh from a triumphant battle over the zombie horde that invaded London, vampire William Shakespeare concocts a plot to rid the love of his life from the encumbrance of her husband. Will plans to give his "dark lady," Katherine Dymond, a potion that will make her sleep the sleep of the dead. Once she is entombed, Will can sneak in, wait for her to awaken, then spirit her away. After her husband returns to his plantation in America, Kate can return to London under a different name and assume a new identity. No one will believe that the dead Katherine and the live Kate are the same woman. Of course, as is often the case with true love, all does not go as smoothly as planned. When the two of them are shipwrecked on an island ruled by a wizard and a nymph, as well as infested by zombies, Will and Kate must stop an even larger plot afoot―one that leads all the way to the royal palaces of Queen Elizabeth.
- Sales Rank: #1701488 in Books
- Published on: 2012-05-22
- Released on: 2012-05-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .75" w x 5.50" l, .51 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 265 pages
Review
"Lose all literary pretensions, strengthen your stomach, and embrace this bloody frolic full of vampires, zombies, and a love story that is the stuff that sonnets are made on."―Library Journal
About the Author
LORI HANDELAND is a USA Today, and New York Times bestselling author, as well as a two-time recipient of the Romance Writers of America's RITA award. She lives in Southern Wisconsin with two sons, a husband, and a yellow lab named Elwood.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Chapter One
“A contract of true love to celebrate.”
—The Tempest (Act IV, scene 1)
London, Autumn—1592
“Two households,” murmured William Shakespeare, his gaze fixed on the family crypt of one of them. “In fair London, where we make our scene.”
The remains of the day were overcast, as ’twas often the case in fair London. A light rain had begun to tumble down. The dreariness of the weather fit the setting—a shadowy graveyard at dusk, the skies fair weeping over the young mistress so recently entombed.
Will’s mistress. The only woman he’d ever loved in several lifetimes.
Will was a vampire, had been for so long he could barely recall when he wasn’t. He wished that he weren’t, that he could live—really live—a true lifetime with his love, that he could once again be human; but as far as Will knew, a vampire was forever.
Unless someone cleaved his head or shoved him into the bright morning sun.
“From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,” he whispered.
If Kate’s husband found out what they had done, his grudge would certainly break something.
“A pair of star-crossed lovers,” Will continued, the beginnings of a play he’d been toying with trickling through his mind. A prologue, mayhap, shared by the Chorus, setting up the entire sorry mess he envisioned. He hadn’t written a decent tragedy in a while. It was time.
“Whose misadventured piteous overthrows do with their death bury strife.”
Only Kate’s “death” could bury the strife with her husband. If everything went according to plan—Kate took the potion that made her “appear like death”—then Reginald should have forgotten about his wife the instant the door slammed shut on her tomb. It wasn’t as if he loved her. With any luck he would have returned to the New World, and the plantation he managed there for Kate’s father, on the next ship, never to be seen or heard from again.
Which would save Will the trouble of killing him.
Just the thought of how the bastard had ill-treated his wife—Will’s love—had Will’s teeth itching, growing.
“Puppies,” he murmured, forcing his mind away from bloody murder. Instead he focused on sweet, fat-bellied balls of fur gamboling across spring grass until his fangs went away.
Will glanced at the azure sky. Now that the sun slept and the moon had awoke, the chill of a London autumn eve would soon seep into the stone mausoleum. Will had promised he would be there to greet Kate when she arose from her feigned death, so he hurried forth, intent on the door beneath the stone-cut lettering.
Dymond.
That was not his love’s true name, but she was a fine jewel just the same.
He reached for the door, and the portal swung open of its own accord, emitting a loud, wretched creak that caused Will to start and draw back his hand to rest atop his sword.
He’d come directly from a performance at the Rose Theater still wearing the costume of Valentine—a doublet of dark green wool with breeches a shade lighter. As Valentine becomes king of a band of outlaws, the sword was part of the show.
And proved a welcome adornment when the zombie loomed from the crypt.
“Brrrr!” it said. “Brrrrrrrr!”
“Zounds.” Will drew his weapon, the slick slide of the metal from its scabbard slicing through the heretofore silent night.
He had not expected zombies. He’d believed London cleared of them by both his efforts and Kate’s. That a woman could be an accomplished zombie hunter had at first surprised, then amazed, Will. Together they had fought the lurching horde set upon their queen by one who would topple her throne and throw England into chaos. They had triumphed, but apparently at least one of the creatures had escaped.
Will would have cleaved the horror’s head from its shoulders, returning the soul to God and the body to ashes, if he hadn’t caught his foot on a loose stone.
There were times when he was grace personified …
Will landed on his arse with a thud.
And times when he was not.
The zombie, a well-to-do merchant from the appearance of what was left of his clothes, which hung in tatters and revealed more than Will ever wanted to see of another man’s—be he dead or living dead—anatomy, blinked at the sudden disappearance of his prey. One of his eyelids came off, skating down his rotting cheek like parchment skipping off the edge of a tabletop in the wind. The bit of flesh landed on Will’s upturned face, and he panicked.
He hacked at the man’s legs, but the blows did no harm. The creature merely stepped out of Will’s reach and disappeared into the darkened crypt.
Will frowned. Why on earth would the zombie go in there when there were fresh brains to be had right here in Will’s head?
Will might be undead, but his brains still worked—quite well, if his reviews were any indication—and they were therefore a delectable meal for any shambling cretin.
Climbing to his feet, Will kept a firm hand on his weapon as he awaited the return of the creature, but the gaping, gloomy doorway remained empty.
“Thou detestable maw.” Will crept closer. “Thou womb of death. Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth.”
A chill went over him as he heard his words and understood why the zombie had gone in rather than stay out.
Certainly most of the occupants were long dead, their brains as rotted as the one who now walked among them. But there was one who had not begun to rot. One who lay alone and vulnerable, whose fresh and tasty brains would be a dear morsel for this gibbering fiend.
Will plunged inside, sword at the ready, just in time to see the decaying head haloed in a beam of moonlight as he bent over what had to be the resting place of Will’s sweet love.
“Brr!” the creature said again. “Brrrr.”
In truth, zombies rarely said aught else.
Leaping forward, Will sliced through its neck with one sweep of his blade. The zombie disintegrated, coating Will’s face with ash.
“Zombies,” he muttered, wiping the gritty remnants from his eyes. “I hate those guys.”
An image flickered—a man in a battered brown hat sneering at other men in pressed uniforms as they goose-stepped past, arms stretched upward in a salute.
An invincible hero. The ultimate evil.
Will shook his head, and the idea disappeared. He tried very hard to bring it back.
“Something about an ark,” he murmured, but it was gone, driven from his mind by more pressing matters.
Will tightened his fingers about the hilt of his sword, gaze scanning the crypt for anything that moved. But the tomb remained as still as those who inhabited it.
He moved to the flat stone pallet where Kate should rest. Nothing was there.
Desperately, Will searched every crevice and corner. He found dozens of bodies in as many states of rot, but not a single trace of Kate.
Why was he surprised?
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Copyright © 2012 by Lori Handeland
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Looking forward to more from this author!
By Mother/Gamer/Writer
Originally Reviewed at:Mother/Gamer/Writer
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Controllers
Review Source: ARC Provided by Publisher
Reviewer: AimeeKay
I was sooo excited when I opened my mail and found this one!! What can I say I have a zombie problem. While I did have some issues with certain things, I did enjoy the story a lot overall.
I found Kate and William both highly entertaining. I laughed out loud at quite a few parts. I liked how the author worked in famous quotes. Plus I really enjoyed the different story ideas that would pop into Shakespeare's head, especially when the ideas were for more modern stories. Then there was Ariel. I liked watching how she tried to figure out exactly what love was and seeing how she and Caliban worked out.
I loved the little quotes from The Tempest at the beginning of each chapter, and how Handeland made each chapter relate to its quote. I also liked the author's style. Between her descriptions and her characters she really drew me into the story and I couldn't wait to see where she would go.
The issues I had with the story...
My biggest problem was the timing of the story. One minute it would be nighttime, or have to be night since Shakespeare was awake, and the next minute it would be daytime. I got frustrated because I kept rereading parts of the story thinking I had missed something. I found that as long as I just ignored whether it was day or night I really enjoyed the story.
My second concern was the ending itself. It just seemed rather abrupt. Don't get me wrong, it made sense, but there was all this excitement and rushing to save the world from the zombie menace, and then poof, it was just over. Maybe I didn't like it because I was enjoying the book so much I didn't want it to end. *Shrug* I just know that while the ending was logical, it just wasn't very satisfying.
Because of the issues I had with the novel, it's very hard for me to rate the finished product.
Zombie Island was funny; I think I laughed on almost every page. The novel enticed me to want to read the first book in the series, Shakespeare Undead. It also makes me want to read any other sequels the author might come up with. However between the concerns I had with the story seeming to jump between day and night and the way it just ended, I feel bad giving it 5 stars.
Would I read it again? Yep! Would I read more of the author's work? Definitely! Would I recommend this book? Of course!
With that being said, I had I have to give it 3 1/2 out of 5 controllers. Yes I loved the book, but the issues were rather important ones and affected my overall enjoyment of the story, however I would still recommend reading Zombie Island if you get a chance.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Shakspeare Undead Again
By M. R. Randazzo
Zombie Island: A Shakespeare Undead Novel (Shakespeare Undead Novels)If you get to read the first Undead Shakespeare novel, you want to continue the tale. This one happens right after his lady love fakes her death with his help using a potion to appear dead for a short time (a quick funeral and burial in a crypt). Well, her husband decided to take her body back to America by boat and this where the story starts. She manages to get out of the coffin just in time for the ship to be wreaked on an island where all perished except for her and her husband. They were the Dyamonds allowed to live. The island is occupied by a wizard (who is the son of Henry VIII and the first Bolyen sister). He was banished to the island to hide his existence. He finds a Sprite locked in a tree whom he releases to do his orders like causing bad weather to ship wreak ship crews. He wants to create a zombie army but forgets to note that they need to feed on brains. Will Shakespeare who follows his love to this island with his ship falling to the same fate, reunites with his lady love and they kill all the Zombies around them. Her husband gets transformed into a wolf man persona by the wizard whom the Sprite of the island finds attractive. Naturally they fall in love. Will Shakespeare is forced to create a Zombie army for the wizard to save his love but all will end well as he follows them back to England, leaving us with another adventure to follow. If you know your history bites you will love the little references here and there plus the reasoning behind the stories of the plays of Shakespeare. I just wish English teachers would reference these books to get students more interested in Shakespeare.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Not a Recommended Read
By Elizabeth B.
This is the second book in a series, and it suffers from MBS (Middle Book Syndrome) -- there were some good plot elements, but it was clear that the story was meant to pick up from book 1 and set up the events for book 3, without really standing on its own as a novel. As a romance novel, I don't think it was very successful -- the 2 male "heroes" used in sex scenes were William Shakespeare (eww!) and a man who had been transformed into a dog-like beast (double eww!). Shakespeare alternated between quoting his own known works, which was nice, to "inventing" lines from well-known contemporary movies such as Star Trek, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Casablanca, which made suspension of disbelief difficult to maintain. Not recommended to any but fans of this author/series.
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