Ali's voice is chatty, and her tone, cultural references and punctuation of words is clearly supposed to mimic teens. It's also clear that the author worked hard to make her sound 'teenagery' (I know that's not a word). Thankfully we get plenty of examples of her toughness and fighting skills. And once her eyes are opened, she can never go back.Īlice Bell, or Ali as she dubs herself after her parents' death, is the type of girl that looks harmless on the surface but has a strong interior, and is not afraid to get her hands dirty in a fight. It does however, take on the spirit of its inspiration with the idea that in an instant, Alice Bell goes from being a sheltered semi-normal girl to discovering that there's an entire world of frightening and fantastical beings that are all around her.

I've read a few reviews that cautioned readers not to compare this book to Alice in Wonderland, and I encourage you to do the same. Although there was a white rabbit, and the chapter titles reference the original book, Alice in Zombieland is not a retelling. But once the plot started moving - especially after Alice meets bad-boy Cole and begins fighting zombies, it was a wild ride until the end. The story starts off a bit slowly, and Alice is understandably depressed and confused after she looses her family. Alice - now called Ali - will avenge her family and learn to fight the creatures that destroyed her world.Īlice in Zombieland is an exciting read with lots of action, zombie killing and a kick-butt heroine. In a moment her world changes drastically, new school, new home and new rules. When Alice Bell's family is killed in an attack outside of cemetery one night, she learns the hard way that her father had been right about the monsters that come out at dark. He warned me over and over never to go out at night, never to venture into a cemetery and never, under any circumstances, to trust someone who wants you to do either. 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…. 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. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. 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.

Alice and zombieland