{"id":31918,"date":"2025-09-02T13:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=31918"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T17:26:22","slug":"review-the-zomromcom-by-olivia-dade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/02\/review-the-zomromcom-by-olivia-dade\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2764\ufe0f The Zomromcom by Olivia Dade"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-31918\" data-postid=\"31918\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-31918 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_0fis473 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner col_align_top gutter-narrow tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-1 tb_ufte473 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_n542473 rounded drop-shadow customBorderRad_top image-center auto_fullwidth tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n\t\t    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"992\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-zomromcom-olivia-dade.jpg?resize=640%2C992&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-31919\" title=\"the-zomromcom-olivia-dade\" alt=\"the-zomromcom-olivia-dade\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-zomromcom-olivia-dade.jpg?w=968&amp;ssl=1 968w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-zomromcom-olivia-dade.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-zomromcom-olivia-dade.jpg?resize=661%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 661w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-zomromcom-olivia-dade.jpg?resize=768%2C1190&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-zomromcom-olivia-dade.jpg?resize=400%2C619&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n    \t<\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_hdcf473 customBorderRad_bottom repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">When Edie Brandstrup attempts to save her sweet, seemingly harmless\u00a0human\u00a0neighbor from the first major zombie breach in two decades, she\u2019s stunned to be saved by\u00a0him\u2014and his ridiculously large sword\u2014instead.\u00a0As it turns out, he&#8217;s actually a super-old, super-surly vampire.\u00a0But for all her neighbor&#8217;s newly revealed cynicism and lethality, Gaston &#8220;Max&#8221; Boucher (yes,\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">Gaston<\/span>) is unexpectedly protective. He wants her to stay in his safety bunker until the breach is resolved. Edie can\u2019t risk more innocent people getting killed, though\u2014and Max won\u2019t let her save them alone.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">As they unravel a sinister conspiracy to set zombies loose on the world (again), the duo meet a host of lovable allies\u00a0and discover\u00a0they&#8217;re not the only ones willing to\u00a0fight for the future of humanity.\u00a0Despite\u00a0the\u00a0awful timing, Edie finds herself falling for the vampire who\u2019s helping her save the world . . . but all their dangerous plans could end\u00a0their\u00a0future\u00a0before it even\u00a0begins. As she and Max battle side by side, Edie must decide whether having a love worth living for also means having a love you&#8217;d die for\u2014and, in a world that grows deadlier by the minute, whether that\u2019s a risk she\u2019s willing to take.<\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-2 tb_vi9g473 last\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_l2w3473  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16470 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2-hearts-1.jpg?resize=95%2C44&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Aug 5, 2025<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Sensual\/Hot<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Penguin Group<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0Berkley<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $10.99<\/p><hr \/><blockquote class=\"quotes\"><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWell. Maybe he wasn\u2019t in his earlyish twenties after all. And maybe he wasn\u2019t an elf or a fae either, as she had been theorizing all evening. His refrigerator contained nothing but blood bags. Discreetly packaged, of course, but definitely unmistakably blood bags. Not-Chad- her closest neighbor, the guy with whom she was currently locked in an underground lair- was a freaking <em>vampire.\u201d <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I always appreciate <strong>Olivia Dade\u2019s<\/strong> attempts at trying something different, and the way she represents plus-size women in the romance genre. Still, the execution on this book was extremely poor. In a paranormal romance, I expect some semblance of world-building or at least providing me with enough information that I can understand what is going on. Zomromcom throws you into a zombie attack immediately, with no context on how we arrived at this post-apocalyptic world. Plus, for being a world with zombies, things seem pretty normal except for the zombies. Maybe I\u2019ve watched too much Resident Evil, but I was expecting the world to be a little worse off.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That aside, the dialogue was cringeworthy. I found the banter between Max and Edie to be strange and juniorish, which rubbed me the wrong way, as Edie is supposed to be in her late thirties. Some parts made me laugh, but they were few and far between. After suspending reality enough to be okay with the lack of world-building and the hodgepodge of mystical beings, she throws insta-love into the mix with these two characters. It just didn\u2019t work. I want some meat and potatoes to the couple\u2019s romance. I adore it when we get to see how they fell in love in the moments they are together, and I really missed that here. It\u2019s in those little moments when I can connect with their relationship and really root for them. I also think Max should have had some more reservations because Edie is human, and he should feel more conflicted regarding their relationship, but apparently it\u2019s easy peasy lemon squeezy in his world. Overall, this was a big miss for me.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you enjoyed paranormal romances by authors like <strong>Ali Hazelwood<\/strong> and <strong>Kimberly Lemming<\/strong> then maybe give this one a try. It may work better for you than it did for me.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Michelle<\/em><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_7cgg473 customBorderRad repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/46eex3r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/3UTbMOH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">iBooks<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/zomromcom-olivia-dade\/1146518134?ean=9780593818213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">B&amp;N<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/zomromcom-1?sId=dd496442-79f6-4bdb-aa2a-14f2d4e55e8e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">Kobo<\/span><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a 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src=\"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-zomromcom-olivia-dade.jpg\" title=\"the-zomromcom-olivia-dade\" alt=\"the-zomromcom-olivia-dade\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-zomromcom-olivia-dade.jpg?w=968&amp;ssl=1 968w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-zomromcom-olivia-dade.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-zomromcom-olivia-dade.jpg?resize=661%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 661w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-zomromcom-olivia-dade.jpg?resize=768%2C1190&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-zomromcom-olivia-dade.jpg?resize=400%2C619&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Edie Brandstrup attempts to save her sweet, seemingly harmless\u00a0human\u00a0neighbor from the first major zombie breach in two decades, she\u2019s stunned to be saved by\u00a0him\u2014and his ridiculously large sword\u2014instead.\u00a0As it turns out, he's actually a super-old, super-surly vampire.\u00a0But for all her neighbor's newly revealed cynicism and lethality, Gaston \"Max\" Boucher (yes,\u00a0Gaston) is unexpectedly protective. He wants her to stay in his safety bunker until the breach is resolved. Edie can\u2019t risk more innocent people getting killed, though\u2014and Max won\u2019t let her save them alone.<br \/><br \/>As they unravel a sinister conspiracy to set zombies loose on the world (again), the duo meet a host of lovable allies\u00a0and discover\u00a0they're not the only ones willing to\u00a0fight for the future of humanity.\u00a0Despite\u00a0the\u00a0awful timing, Edie finds herself falling for the vampire who\u2019s helping her save the world . . . but all their dangerous plans could end\u00a0their\u00a0future\u00a0before it even\u00a0begins. As she and Max battle side by side, Edie must decide whether having a love worth living for also means having a love you'd die for\u2014and, in a world that grows deadlier by the minute, whether that\u2019s a risk she\u2019s willing to take.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/2-hearts-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> Aug 5, 2025<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Sensual\/Hot<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0Penguin Group<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0Berkley<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $10.99<\/p><hr \/><blockquote><p>\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWell. Maybe he wasn\u2019t in his earlyish twenties after all. And maybe he wasn\u2019t an elf or a fae either, as she had been theorizing all evening. His refrigerator contained nothing but blood bags. Discreetly packaged, of course, but definitely unmistakably blood bags. Not-Chad- her closest neighbor, the guy with whom she was currently locked in an underground lair- was a freaking <em>vampire.\u201d <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I always appreciate <strong>Olivia Dade\u2019s<\/strong> attempts at trying something different, and the way she represents plus-size women in the romance genre. Still, the execution on this book was extremely poor. In a paranormal romance, I expect some semblance of world-building or at least providing me with enough information that I can understand what is going on. Zomromcom throws you into a zombie attack immediately, with no context on how we arrived at this post-apocalyptic world. Plus, for being a world with zombies, things seem pretty normal except for the zombies. Maybe I\u2019ve watched too much Resident Evil, but I was expecting the world to be a little worse off.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That aside, the dialogue was cringeworthy. I found the banter between Max and Edie to be strange and juniorish, which rubbed me the wrong way, as Edie is supposed to be in her late thirties. Some parts made me laugh, but they were few and far between. After suspending reality enough to be okay with the lack of world-building and the hodgepodge of mystical beings, she throws insta-love into the mix with these two characters. It just didn\u2019t work. I want some meat and potatoes to the couple\u2019s romance. I adore it when we get to see how they fell in love in the moments they are together, and I really missed that here. It\u2019s in those little moments when I can connect with their relationship and really root for them. I also think Max should have had some more reservations because Edie is human, and he should feel more conflicted regarding their relationship, but apparently it\u2019s easy peasy lemon squeezy in his world. Overall, this was a big miss for me.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you enjoyed paranormal romances by authors like <strong>Ali Hazelwood<\/strong> and <strong>Kimberly Lemming<\/strong> then maybe give this one a try. It may work better for you than it did for me.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>~ Michelle<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/46eex3r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/3UTbMOH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBooks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/zomromcom-olivia-dade\/1146518134?ean=9780593818213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B&amp;N<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/zomromcom-1?sId=dd496442-79f6-4bdb-aa2a-14f2d4e55e8e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Olivia_Dade_Zomromcom?id=yU4vEQAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31918"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31924,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31918\/revisions\/31924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}