Alice in Zombieland (White Rabbit Chronicles, Book 1) (The White Rabbit Chronicles, 1)
A modern-day Alice in Wonderland meets the undead...
Alice in Zombieland, the first book in The White Rabbit Chronicles, introduces readers to a world newly overrun by zombies...and the one girl who may be able to save mankind.
She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave.
Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. But that's all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone.
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.
The White Rabbit Chronicles:
Alice in Zombieland
Through the Zombie Glass
The Queen of Zombie Hearts
A Mad Zombie Party
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Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter is her first book in a new series, The White Rabbit Chronicles.
I picked this book out for multiple reasons with a huge smile on my face the entire time. This was written by one of my favorite authors (Lords of the Underworld series anyone?), retelling a classic childhood fairy tale I have yet to find comparison for, and top it off with the threat of zombies. Sounds like the perfect mix right? Sadly, no.
Prepare for more of a rant than a review. I tried to stay as objective as possible, but Iâm not a miracle worker you know. Spoilers! Ready?
Already my heart is fluttering in anticipation from the prologue alone. I thought I wouldnât be able to stop, that it was going to be a thrill ride and I sat on the edge of my seat to continue. That didn't last long.
Despite the horrible taste this book left lingering in the very air around me, I would like to point out that the beginning was quite good. The intro felt just like the original as Alice and her sister sat together under a tree on a beautiful summer day. Watching a white rabbit in the sky instead of on the ground. It continued by building on Aliceâs character and coming to crashing end with her emotional undoing. The scene depicting her tragic loss was detailed in slow motion and you could almost feel yourself flipping in the car with her. The writing pulled me in pretty deep.
Her world as she knew it had ended. Then she met her new best friend, âKatâ. Cheshire Kat then? Fun spin and easy to run with. A summer filled with a funeral and sleepless nights lasted for a few chapters⦠riveting⦠or not.
School begins and surprise she transferred to Katâs district. I donât know how to lead into what happens next, so here; Instant Love. Not just instant love with the most popular badass in school (Cole â The Mad Hatter?), instant vision sharing love. I canât stand magical love at first sight. Nothing against it, more power to those who believe, itâs just not my flavor.
Throw in about 10 new names and faces, each of which is apparently a super model. Yes, 16 year old supermodels and body building ex-con types. Each description painted an image in my head and for the life of me, they could not have been 16. I kept telling myself this was the authors first installment into the Young Adult genre, but there has to be a limit right?
Chapters and chapters filled with what I felt were scenes from Mean Girls or Pretty Little Liars. The middle stretched out entirely too long for me. It could barely keep my attention and Iâm surprised I didnât drop it, but I hate doing that. Even the verbal fights caused boredom.
This was used multiple times. Is this a new thing? I hope not, itâs terribly stupid. Especially when used 4-5 times.
You can think up this but no better threats? Come on!
Not until I was half way through the book did it start to give the zombies page time. The zombie combat was interesting enough. Elaborate scenes of pain and survival were gripping. As for the explanations of the zombies⦠extremely hard to swallow. It all came down to Good vs. Evil, over and over that was the bottom line. Fighting strength? Came from goodness. Zombies? Came from evil. Period. /sigh
Alice is continually confused by her feelings for Cole which leads them to an on again off again style relationship. Ah, puppy love. Sheâs a 5â10â³ blonde haired 16 yr old who can kick ass in platform heals though and of course she more special powers than anyone else. θ＼(ï¼ï¿¢_ï¿¢)
With about 20 pages to go cue the evil organization. Wrap this up in an explosion, kidnapping, defeating all possible odds and done. I canât seem to bring myself to go into any further detail about any of that though. I almost couldnât wrap my brain around it while it was happening. Why wasnât more time spent into that than into the lunch table fights and text messages? Was anything explained further? No. Although her dead sister did appear to tell her it was only going to get worse from here. Did she believe her? Of course not, sheâs 16, sheâs knows EVERYTHING. As every teenager thinks of course. Makes sense though when all of her questions were basically answered with, âbecause thatâs how it isâ.
Why the references to Alice in Wonderland? This didnât feel like a rendition or retelling in the slightest. Sure, it had a couple names and some form of a white rabbit⦠but itâs almost as if the author forgot she was trying to include that. Perhaps it could have been better if it didnât try to involve the fairy tale at all.
Needless to say I will not be reading the second book. (*ã»_ã»)ãâ*
I hope I didnât spend too much time ranting about it. I wonât tear down others for enjoying it either. To each their own.
I picked this book out for multiple reasons with a huge smile on my face the entire time. This was written by one of my favorite authors (Lords of the Underworld series anyone?), retelling a classic childhood fairy tale I have yet to find comparison for, and top it off with the threat of zombies. Sounds like the perfect mix right? Sadly, no.
Prepare for more of a rant than a review. I tried to stay as objective as possible, but Iâm not a miracle worker you know. Spoilers! Ready?
âA blink, a breath, a second and everything she knew was gone.â
Already my heart is fluttering in anticipation from the prologue alone. I thought I wouldnât be able to stop, that it was going to be a thrill ride and I sat on the edge of my seat to continue. That didn't last long.
Despite the horrible taste this book left lingering in the very air around me, I would like to point out that the beginning was quite good. The intro felt just like the original as Alice and her sister sat together under a tree on a beautiful summer day. Watching a white rabbit in the sky instead of on the ground. It continued by building on Aliceâs character and coming to crashing end with her emotional undoing. The scene depicting her tragic loss was detailed in slow motion and you could almost feel yourself flipping in the car with her. The writing pulled me in pretty deep.
Her world as she knew it had ended. Then she met her new best friend, âKatâ. Cheshire Kat then? Fun spin and easy to run with. A summer filled with a funeral and sleepless nights lasted for a few chapters⦠riveting⦠or not.
School begins and surprise she transferred to Katâs district. I donât know how to lead into what happens next, so here; Instant Love. Not just instant love with the most popular badass in school (Cole â The Mad Hatter?), instant vision sharing love. I canât stand magical love at first sight. Nothing against it, more power to those who believe, itâs just not my flavor.
Throw in about 10 new names and faces, each of which is apparently a super model. Yes, 16 year old supermodels and body building ex-con types. Each description painted an image in my head and for the life of me, they could not have been 16. I kept telling myself this was the authors first installment into the Young Adult genre, but there has to be a limit right?
Chapters and chapters filled with what I felt were scenes from Mean Girls or Pretty Little Liars. The middle stretched out entirely too long for me. It could barely keep my attention and Iâm surprised I didnât drop it, but I hate doing that. Even the verbal fights caused boredom.
âI will wipe the floor with your face.â
This was used multiple times. Is this a new thing? I hope not, itâs terribly stupid. Especially when used 4-5 times.
âHonestly if you stuck your head inside a dead horseâs rectum, you wouldnât smell anything close to this.â
You can think up this but no better threats? Come on!
Not until I was half way through the book did it start to give the zombies page time. The zombie combat was interesting enough. Elaborate scenes of pain and survival were gripping. As for the explanations of the zombies⦠extremely hard to swallow. It all came down to Good vs. Evil, over and over that was the bottom line. Fighting strength? Came from goodness. Zombies? Came from evil. Period. /sigh
Alice is continually confused by her feelings for Cole which leads them to an on again off again style relationship. Ah, puppy love. Sheâs a 5â10â³ blonde haired 16 yr old who can kick ass in platform heals though and of course she more special powers than anyone else. θ＼(ï¼ï¿¢_ï¿¢)
With about 20 pages to go cue the evil organization. Wrap this up in an explosion, kidnapping, defeating all possible odds and done. I canât seem to bring myself to go into any further detail about any of that though. I almost couldnât wrap my brain around it while it was happening. Why wasnât more time spent into that than into the lunch table fights and text messages? Was anything explained further? No. Although her dead sister did appear to tell her it was only going to get worse from here. Did she believe her? Of course not, sheâs 16, sheâs knows EVERYTHING. As every teenager thinks of course. Makes sense though when all of her questions were basically answered with, âbecause thatâs how it isâ.
Why the references to Alice in Wonderland? This didnât feel like a rendition or retelling in the slightest. Sure, it had a couple names and some form of a white rabbit⦠but itâs almost as if the author forgot she was trying to include that. Perhaps it could have been better if it didnât try to involve the fairy tale at all.
Needless to say I will not be reading the second book. (*ã»_ã»)ãâ*
I hope I didnât spend too much time ranting about it. I wonât tear down others for enjoying it either. To each their own.
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