This perhaps has more to do with descriptive style though than the plot, which was at its strongest during these scenes. Whilst the premise of spiritual and ghostly zombies is an interesting one, the scare factor could have done with being turned up a notch. There are people who can see such creatures, who can fight them with their own spirit form – Alice’s father was one – and after tragedy strikes, Alice is thrown headfirst into the same crazy and dangerous world. In this novel zombies are spiritual beings who attack and feed off the human spirit. Alice must decide whether to live a life on the run in constant paranoia, or to stand and fight.Īlice in Zombieland takes an interesting spin around our general concept of ‘the zombie’. Her family, her innocence and her world come crashing down around her when her father’s apparent delusions become terrifyingly real. No Mad Hatters, no tea parties, and not one person’s head is offed! But enough about that. This is a tale about a young girl who has lost everything. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn’t careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies.įirst and foremost, Alice in Zombieland is not a retelling. Beyond the protagonist being called Alice and her brief glimpses of a rabbit shaped cloud, it has nothing to do with Alice in Wonderland at all. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland.
To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone. Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. She won’t rest until she’s sent every walking corpse back to its grave. The first half of this novel left me angry that I’d even bought it in the first place but, once I had forgotten how irritating I found the narrative style, the other half was actually quite fun. Whilst this isn’t a terrible novel – I am sure there are people out there who would love it – it really wasn’t a book for me. But this will probably cure me of my habit of judging a book by its cover… and title… and tagline.
Young Adult | Fantasy | 404 Pages | Published by MIRA Ink in 2012Īn Alice in Wonderland retelling you say? With zombies? What’s not to like?! Well, quite a lot actually.
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