Title: Alice in Zombieland
Author: Gena Showalter
Length: 420 Pages
Genres: YA, Paranormal, Zombies, Romance
Synopsis:
She won’t rest until she’s sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.
Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. 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….
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
Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. 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….
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:
3.5
The take on Zombies was
excellent. Just… flat out brilliant. Instead of being corporeal beings they’re
dead, evil spirits. They’re not visible to most people which makes them that
much more dangerous. I loved that spin on something we have a set image of—when
you think of zombies you think of zombies… but not her
zombies. Which made this
experience that much better.
I loved Alice as a
character—she was strong, and a very independent person. She also grieved over
her family like a normal teenager would which made her feel real. But like I loved
Alice as a character, I had a couple problems with Cole. When you didn’t know
him and the interaction between the two was more glances than conversation her
felt very… stereotypical. He was the bad boy that was too good for the female
protagonist. I didn’t like that—but he did redeem himself the more the two
interacted and the more you
knew about him.
The situations that
were set up were—for lack of a better word—awesome. I loved the conflict
between Cole’s group and Justin’s. I loved Kat’s character and I loved the
zombie fight scenes. The decisions that were made by Alice—though some pretty
idiotic—made sense to her character.
I do think that the
romance in this book was a little… exaggerated. I understand that it’s a
zombie-romance which means that there will
be romance in it, I knew that when I picked up the book. But when they kiss…
it’s like a hormonal punch in the face. I just though that it was a little to
exaggerated—but that’s a personal opinion (I like more blood in my zombie
stories and less kissing).
Even though I thought
it had a few faults, it was still a very good book, and I will be reading the
sequel when it comes out.
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