Alice Through the Looking Glass

Title: Alice Through the Zombie Glass

Author: Gena Showalter
Publisher: MIRA INK

Year: 2013
Pages: 476
ISBN: 9781848452534
Series: White Rabbit Chronicles #2
Genre: Zombies/ Paranormal/ Retelling
Reading Time: 17 - 24 May
Binding: Paperback
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★★☆☆☆

Blurb:

 Alice Bell has lost so much. Family. Friends. A home. She thought she had nothing else to give.

 She was wrong.

 After a new zombie attack, her world gets even stranger. Mirror come to life and she can hear the whispers of the dead.

 But the worst? A terrible darkness blooms insider her, urging her to do dangerously wicked deeds that are impossible to come back from...

Review:

 Oh man, I thought I'd enjoyed the first one. That was four months ago and since then I've read a new book by one of my favourite authors and an adult fantasy series originally published in the 90s. Going back to this series, it feels like I'm reading fanfiction written by a teenager. No one talks like these characters, it's a mix of trying to sound you and then speaking in paragraphs and words that no one of their age would use.

 The characters are shallow, everything in the book is either zombie or boyfriends. That doesn't hold up for over 400 pages, especially when the boyfriend theme is stronger and the basis of every other character. None of the relationships in this book are healthy, I worry what this would have taught me about men if I'd read this when I originally bought it a few years ago.

 All the action is contained to three chapters. It's over so quickly and would have been better off coming in half way through the book and being drawn out to at least have something going on rather than Ali constantly feeling sorry for herself.

 I don't know. I'm not a quitter, I already own the third book but not the fourth. I'll try and finish the series but it'll be with slightly gritted teeth.