No Longer Alone – Erin R. Flynn

Series: House of Garner  # 1
Posted: April 10, 2019
Rating: 2/5
Originally posted on GoodReads
Possibly-different review also posted on Amazon

Bad wish-fulfillment fantasy - which is a pity because good novels have been written with almost the same ingredients.

Inez is a vampire princess. She has super powers. She has a Destiny. (This isn’t subtle Destiny: If she doesn’t move in the direction it points, she is forced to backtrack.) She has a desperate need for sex - a problem which the vampires she meets are happy to help her solve, for a large fraction of the book’s page count.

A few years ago there was a zombie apocalypse, and Inez travels through a landscape filled with hungry (not-very-bright) zombies who are particularly anxious to attack her.

Her travels are more of a triumphal progress than an adventure. Attacking zombies get shot, male vampires fall in love (and bed) and join the procession. The super powers improve over time. Scavenging for supplies is easy despite a general collapse and an actually-large remaining population.

The author has taken familiar ingredients and has not done much with them.