# Married With Zombies

By Jesse Petersen · Living with the Dead, book 1

Profile: https://hahafiction.com/books/married-with-zombies-b1337401/

Sarah and David are already struggling to stay married when they arrive at counseling and discover their therapist eating her clients. Surviving the zombie outbreak in Seattle requires the teamwork they've had so much trouble managing at home.

## What makes it funny?

Sarah sits down to search for divorce lawyers and finds that the shared computer is already familiar with the request. Her husband's apparent head start is another grievance to add to their arguments about driving and the car stereo.

### The comedy at work

Sarah's complaints don't stop for the apocalypse. Advice from marriage counseling acquires practical uses in a fight, while the couple's knowledge of zombie movies helps them work out how to stay alive.

### Try this if…

An established couple's friction drives the comedy. Readers who enjoy argumentative dialogue, rude narration and familiar zombie-film rules can follow a marriage under unusually violent pressure.

### Good to know

Frequent profanity and bloody attacks accompany the relationship jokes. The story begins the Living with the Dead series.

## What to expect

- Genre: Horror · Romance
- On the shelf: Romantic comedy · Zombie
- Kind of humor: Banter · Dark comedy · Situational comedy
- Format: Novel
- Length: 272 pages (ebook)

## A few distinguishing details

- Marriage-counseling advice becomes survival strategy
- A shared browser history exposes mutual divorce plans

## Sources & further reading

- Book information: [Married with Zombies by Jesse Petersen on Apple Books](https://books.apple.com/nz/book/married-with-zombies/id389515452)
- Book information: [Google Books edition record](https://books.google.com/books/about/Married_with_Zombies.html?id=AMm2LpOtQwgC)
- Review: [The Book Smugglers review and excerpt](https://www.thebooksmugglers.com/2011/07/book-review-married-with-zombies-by-jesse-petersen.html)
- Review: [Publishers Weekly review](https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780316102865)