Karen DeSonne is used to pretending to be something she's not. All her life, she's passed as a normal all-American teenager; with her friends, with her family and at school. Passing cost her the love of her life. And now that Karen's dead, she's still passing - this time as alive..Meanwhile, Karen's dead friends have been fingered in a high profile murder, causing a new round of anti-zombie regulations that have forced nearly all of Oakvale's undead into hiding. Karen soon learns that the ''murder'' was a hoax, staged by Pete Martinsburg and his bioist zealots. Obtaining enough evidence to expose the fraud and prove her friends' innocence means doing the unthinkable: betraying her love by becoming Pete's girlfriend. Karen's only hope is that the enemy never realizes who she really is - because the consequences would be even worse than death.
Somehow I could not get into the plot of Passing Strange. What bothered me while reading, was that the changing narrator in every chapter, which where all written in a different point of view and in changing first, second and third person, which was very confusing. At one point I didn't have a clue anymore who I was reading about.
The idea of the story was nice, but wasn't worked out well. It never was interesting.
The zombie topic is one one the many in the current YA paranormal/supernatural hype, nice to walk along with this hype, but I think the best days of this trend are already over, time for something new, authors!
Might be a nice pick for the fans of this genre, if not, you can easily pass it.
Overal ranking: ***
