Alice in Zombieland

Title: Alice in Zombieland
Author: Gena Showalter
Publisher: MIRA INK
Year: 2012
Pages: 404
ISBN: 9781848451575
Series: White Rabbit Chronicles #1
Genre: Zombies/ Paranormal/ Retelling
Reading Time: 24 - 29 Feb
Binding: Paperback
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Stars:
★★★☆☆

Blurb:
 Her father was right. The monsters are real. . .
 To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. 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. . .
 I wish I could go back and do a thousand things differently. I'd tell my sister no. I'd never beg my mother to talk to my dad. I'd zip my lips and swallow those hateful words. Or, barring all of that, I'd hug my sister, my mom and my dad one last time. I'd tell them I love them. I wish . . . Yeah, I wish.

Review:
 It has been a few weeks since finishing this book, I was on a once in a lifetime holiday and had no qualms about leaving it on an airport stand for someone else to pick up later. It's back from the Twilight times, when retellings were busting out of publisher's ears and no one was sick of zombies, werewolves or vampires yet. I bought it a while ago and these books have just sat on my shelf ever since. Spotting an opportunity to clear some shelf space this book finally had its chance.
 The referencing to Alice in Wonderland is nice and plain to see, some of it was just a tad tacky for my liking but hey, it always will be. The white rabbit is my main issue, it didn't feel like it was really justified even with the explanation we got.
 Ali is awkward, a nice kind of awkward to read. The tone of her voice and the speed means I felt I could flick though and read this book rather quickly. It wasn't massively fast paced but enough to get me reading properly for the first time in a while.
 We've got a good range of characters and I'm interested to see how they develop in the following books. Meeting them all was a bit abrupt but that fits with going to a new school. I think the complexity of this world has got some real expanding to do in the next books. Not to mention, with COVID-19 going on I feel like continuing with a good little zombie series.