ALICE IN ZOMBIELAND
By Gena Showalter
~Book Review~
Warning! Spoilers!
FROM LOOKING AT SOME OF THE OTHER REVIEWS on Goodreads, we expected the same thing: Alice
stumbles into a dark and possibly more twisted Wonderland full of ZOMBIES.
Chaos and terror commence!
No, it’s just
Alice in high school fighting random soul-sucking corpses that are the product
of a mysterious corporation.
Gawd I wanted
zombieland! I wanted a maniac Cheshire Cat and a bloodthirsty Mad Hatter and oh
man, was I excited for a Red Queen gone crazier than usual!
To give the book
credit, it starts out really strong. The writing is simple, brooding, and
created an aura of mystery. Alice’s family tragically perishes in a car
accident when her father starts babbling about zombies. Turns out, they are
phantoms that drift around and eat souls. In some faraway, magical landscape?
No, around the boring-as-vanilla high school.
I also liked Alice
at first, too. She meets a mysterious girl named Kat at the hospital, and they
both seem to bond over their gruesome circumstances for being there. I had high
hopes for the friendship once they started high school. However, unfortunately Alice
ultimately didn’t come across as realistic. She always seemed to have the
perfect come back against every bully. She was especially eloquent when
compared to her man Cole the Neanderthal (We need to get some new bad boy
names. Cole made me think of Maggie Stiefvator’s Shiver series every page).
The first couple
times Alice meets Cole are exceedingly awkward because they both start having
visions of making out with each other. Unfortunately this leads to “an instance
connection” and the dreaded “insta-love,” which saps all of the tension out of
that storyline. Cole is the mysterious leader of a bad boy gang who goes around
hunting the weird soul-eating zombies. There’s an evil corporation involved,
too, but their presence is barely felt until three-fourths of the way through
the book.
As such, I’ve
realized that this Alice in Zombieland isn’t in homage to Lewis Carroll, but to
the Resident Evil franchise—rated T.
Recommended for
fans of: Becca Fitzpatrick, Kresley Cole, Stephanie Meyer
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