A new trend seems to be the “zombification” of novels. Maybe you haven’t seen them, but adding zombies to old novels is popular (the first to do this was “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” which I haven’t read but is on my “to read” list”). Or just writing about Zombies. This is a trend I can fully get behind. Really, I think zombies can add a lot to a book, movie or TV show. How awesome would “Hamlet” be if  his Ophelia came back to eat some brains after her death? Or if Tiny Tim turned out to be a brain-eating zombie at the end?

So how excited was I to find out a new book coming out in October is going to mix zombies with another favorite in our house: Star Wars. Oh yeah, that’s right. What happens in the extended Star Wars galaxay when Storm Troopers become ZOMBIES??

Despite the love of Star Wars in our house, I shy away from Star Wars books. It just seems to be…too much. But I might have to read “Death Troopers” this fall. According to Amazon.com:

When the Imperial prison barge Purge—temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy’s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves—breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back—bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine.

And death is only the beginning.

The Purge’s half-dozen survivors—two teenage brothers, a sadistic captain of the guards, a couple of rogue smugglers, and the chief medical officer, the lone woman on board—will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn’t really empty at all. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.

I’m just getting goosebumps reading about it! In fact, it has everything a made-for-SyFy TV movie needs: One woman (the last “good soul” on board), the teenage boys who I bet turn out to be wrongly accused OR bad guys with hearts of gold. It has someone who is sadistic and it has soulless, unstoppable dead (in other words, ZOMBIES!). Check, check and CHECK!

So, I’ll keep that on my to-read list and let you know if it lives up to my expectations.

My anticipated rating: Awesome out of Awesomness!