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Alice in Zombieland

Nickolas Cook,

Lewis Carroll

3.27 · Rating details · 2,154 ratings · 264 reviews

They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank-the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. All of them were covered in Alice's now cold and congealed blood, which made them even tastier looking to poor hungry Alice.

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Apr 03, 2011 Jasmine rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: american, british

Karen sacrificed this book to me cause I was so excited when I saw it. I felt bad taking it from her, but I NEEDED it. I am obsessed with alice and wonderland, then way that I'm obsessed with peter pan. I think in fact she is the female version of peter pan.

but when I think of alice I don't think of this:

I think of this:

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Aug 01, 2011 Tammie rated it it was ok

Shelves: horror-dark

I was happy when my husband gave me this book as a gift (I love both Zombies and Alice and Wonderland). It is a decent and fun book to read, just don't expect a masterpiece. ...more

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Mar 07, 2011 Amy Jacobs rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: books-i-own

When asked to review this book, I was a little hesitant in accepting. I liked Alice in Wonderland as a child, and I wasn't too sure I wanted to see what changes would be made to this classic story. I was curious though after reading some Austen remakes that are being retold the same way. So I fell through the rabbit hole and began the journey with Alice.

After only a few pages of the book, I knew this was going to be hard to get through. The writing wasn't favorable in the fact that it had a ton ...more

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Mar 15, 2012 Meghan rated it did not like it

Recommends it for: no one. Sorry!

Shelves: fiction-zombies

I loved Alice in Wonderland and was pretty stoked to finally be able to find this. I was not, however, much encouraged to finish :(

I slogged through it and after a promising and pretty cute beginning, it just got pretty boring. It honestly just felt like the "co-author" cut and paste certain sections of the original and then added his own zombie bits to them that made the entire story just awkward, hard to read and thoroughly un-entertaining, at least for me. What writing he did do was stilted ...more

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Apr 05, 2011 J.C. rated it liked it · review of another edition

I had a lot of fun reading this. You may not. It depends on your sensibilities and expectations.

First of all, this is a humor book. The reader is asked to lighten up and go along for the ride. To have fun and not to dwell too heavily on the fact that there is little originality to the story except for the characterizations and some of the settings.

As some reviewers have noted, and criticized Cook for, is the sense that he did not make this work his own as much as Seth Grahame-Smith did with Pr ...more

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Jun 02, 2011 Amy Seraphina rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: paranormal, sci-fi-fantasy, horror, adventure, donate

Oh my god! Doesn't even deserve half a star. A few pages in and I was instantly annoyed with this book. I knew this was a mash up and excited to get it in the mail, but i was hoping for some really witty macabre tale using Alice in wonderland as a base.
I hold the original story close to my heart and I defend it against butchers like this... This... "author". It reminded me of Tim Burton's butchery of Alice last year (the only good thing was Johnny depp).
The way the author just replaced parts an ...more

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May 03, 2011 Anita rated it really liked it

Shelves: arc, paranormal, retelling, young-adult

Alice in ZombieLand
AUTHOR: Lewis Carrol/Nickolas Cook
GENRE: Classic/Horror Mash-up
FORM: Book – Advance Review Copy

SYNOPSIS: Alice and her sister go out to the graveyard to do her reading lesson when she gets distracted and sees a black rat checking his watch. Curious, Alice follows the black rat into a hole, and finds herself in a land where the creatures are zombies and ruled by an overbearing Red Queen. Alice finds that she herself is becoming more and more zombie-like and desperately seeks a Alice in ZombieLand
AUTHOR: Lewis Carrol/Nickolas Cook
GENRE: Classic/Horror Mash-up
FORM: Book – Advance Review Copy

SYNOPSIS: Alice and her sister go out to the graveyard to do her reading lesson when she gets distracted and sees a black rat checking his watch. Curious, Alice follows the black rat into a hole, and finds herself in a land where the creatures are zombies and ruled by an overbearing Red Queen. Alice finds that she herself is becoming more and more zombie-like and desperately seeks a way to go home.

REVIEW: Assuming you like the classic/horror mash-up books that are pretty popular now, or if you just like a good Zombie book – this book is perfect! You get an almost humorous amount of blood, gore and zombies; and of course the crazy mixed up land of Alice’s Wonderland. It probably has been about two years ago now that I read Alice in Wonderland for the first time, and I what I loved about the book was the double meanings and contradictions, which are of course still present in this version. I’m not typically a lover of horror- like books (and I’m trying to use “horror” lightly, it’s not scary really, but I wouldn’t read it to your grade-schooler!), but when I was approached about reading the book, it just had that fun, trendy appeal to it. And really, what could make the tripped out Alice in Wonderland even better? Zombies, of course! While it was funny envisioning all of the characters in Alice as flesh-eating Zombies, there were still parts where I was frowning and a little bit grossed out.

WHAT I LOVED: I loved how Nickolas Cook took Alice’s sunny colorful world, and changed it completely into a very dark cold one, starting right out with changing the happy tree opening setting to a dark damp graveyard. I wasn’t expecting the transition to start out so quickly. I think I was expecting Alice to be her same sunny self, but sucked into this dark world, which I think would have changed the entire book, because instead of “curious-and-calm Alice,” you would have had “seriously-freaked-out-screaming Alice”. Written this way, the Alice’s are literally like day and night copies of the same book.

NOT SO MUCH: Why is the rabbit a rat now? I don’t know why this bothered me so much, because I can see how a rat fits in the book’s theme, but a black zombie rabbit would have been FLIPPEN FREAKY, don’t you think? Just imagine it with red eyes and sharp teeth…. ...more

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Nov 10, 2011 Fanny Towns rated it it was ok

As a fan of Alice Alice in Wonderland...and zombies, I saw this book and couldn't wait to start reading. This book started out like many other books do, slow. So I did not think much of it, but before I knew it, I was to the middle of the story, still waiting for it to get interesting. When I eventually finished the book, I was quite disappointed that it was not as great as I thought it would be. Of course that just may be my own opinion, but I would not read this book again nor recommend it to ...more

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Mar 19, 2011 James Blatter rated it it was ok · review of another edition

So much potential, so much chaos and unmet potential

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Oct 10, 2017 Nicole rated it it was ok · review of another edition

“Still thinking how much she would like to eat her new friends. She could not decide if she would do so with sauce or not. She wasn’t sure it mattered much as she could not think of a polite way to ask them for a taste of their flesh.” - Nickolas Cook - Alice in Zombieland

This was such a short read it seemed silly not to finish it. I haven’t read the original Alice in Wonderland story, so I don’t know how close this one follows to that. Some of the storyline seemed familiar from watching the mov ...more

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Aug 17, 2020 Leah Rose rated it it was ok

Though the concept is amusing I dont feel like it was pulled off well. The author seemed too desperate for the new found theme to be incorporated fully but to still stick largely to the original script even if it didn't mesh quite right. The result was an even more gibberish version of Alice in Wonderland. Just in this one, everything is dead. ...more

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Feb 13, 2019 Becky rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: library, fantasy-sci-fi, classic, horror

This was a fun read but you must love the original Alice in Wonderland and be a fan of Zombies also. Although some die hard fans of Alice hate this book. It's for humor. A monster mash-up. I thought it was a fun spin on the original story. I liked the Mock Turtle better in Zombieland where he is the Corpse Turtle. Read this with an open mind if you decide to give it a try. ...more

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Oct 28, 2016 Zoey Sneed added it

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The characters in the story such as Alice, the Hatter, and others more are closely equivalent to the characters in the original story “Alice in Wonderland” making the story more believable if knowing the original tale. And because Nickolas Cook incorporated the same actions from the original story and modified new actions to go with the theme the story stays more consistent. For instance, in the original story, Alice had a drink and a tiny cake that were labeled for her to eat and drink, but in The characters in the story such as Alice, the Hatter, and others more are closely equivalent to the characters in the original story “Alice in Wonderland” making the story more believable if knowing the original tale. And because Nickolas Cook incorporated the same actions from the original story and modified new actions to go with the theme the story stays more consistent. For instance, in the original story, Alice had a drink and a tiny cake that were labeled for her to eat and drink, but in the story Nickolas Cook changes it to “poison” for the drink. And with Alice’s weakness of curiosity she drinks the solution anyway making her grow in size ending with her being the right size for the door she needs to enter. Or in other characters, such as the Cheshire cat that most kids know and surely love, has the same action of telling Alice where the two passages go and how she can go any way she desires at her own risk. As well as, disappearing as he pleases, however, because of the twist in the story the Cheshire Cat “likes to eat little girls, not mice” (Cook 108) again staying with the theme and making the story more believable, as well as staying more in the zombie-like characteristics. And Lastly, everything from the beginning molds very well to the end from the zombies having jeweled collars and being controlled by the red queen to the crave of meat pies that Alice has throughout the story. Alice puts her foot down and defends her new, dead friends against the Red Queen and her cruelty towards them, then later destroys the box that helps control the collars and sets the zombies free. As well as, helping them get revenge on the red queen for her crimes and eating her. However, even though that was not Alice’s intention of them attacking the Red Queen she tries to stop them by screaming ( not only in frustration but in fear as well) later on waking herself up from where she started in the beginning of the book…the graveyard. Where she finds out Zombieland was a terrible dream and finally gets the meat pies she has been dying for.

As you read a story such as Alice In Wonderland, you think of the usual, such as a white rabbit that is always stressing over time, or the Red Queen having an army of a deck of cards. However, author Nickolas Cook modifies the family friendly story book into his own twisted tale with the help of his dark imagination. For instance, Wonderland isn’t so wonderful, but is instead dead and renamed as Zombieland. The plot of the story does not change as much as the idea of the story such as, instead of sleeping on the bark of a comfortable tree, Alice hangs out in a graveyard and finds herself following a black rat down a deep, dark, scary hole; unlike a nice, anxious rabbit who is just trying not to be late for the Red Queen. This shows how Nickolas Cook incorporates the actual story and mold it into his own,leaving some similarities in the both. As well as, the characters who are known to be cheery and full of joy are now dead and trying to find a meal. However, the well know character the Mad Hatter is still a good character in both wonder and zombie lands. In zombieland he finds a way to control his hunger and help Alice through his journey. And with changing the happy story of Alice in Wonderland, instead of Alice’s river of “tears” it is now blood from the cut she encountered when she went down the “rat” hole which stays with her for most of her journey. Although, most of the main characters in the book are dead such as the Cheshire cat and tea party guest, the Red Queen and her king are human and living. And like in the original story, the Red Queen has the same personality and similar actions. For instance, yelling, being cruel to people (or in this case zombies), and as well as chopping off people’s heads off. The main difference between wonderland and Zombieland Red Queen is their army. Instead of the army of deck of cards, it is the army of zombies and in order to control them she uses jeweled, red collars. And lastly, throughout the journey of Alice, she experiences a sort of change. Where her body absorbs the environment she is discovering and turns her into everyone else...a zombie. And develops a strong hunger where she wants to eat anything or one that gets in the way of her voyage.
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May 06, 2011 Stormi (BMReviewsohmy) rated it liked it

"Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!"
I have never read Alice in Wonderland and I am not sure if I should have read that before this book or not. I know the basics of the story, but you put zombies in it and it gets a LOT weirder.

So Alice follows a Black Rat instead of a White Rabbit down a grave and into the world of Zombie land. In Zombieland everything is pretty much dead. Alice starts to get hungry for flesh but she doesn't understand why. It's not till she meets the Cheshire Cat that she lea ...more

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May 09, 2011 Heather Pearson rated it really liked it

Recommended to Heather by: Sourcebooks

I have read and watched a variety of Alice based books and movies since I was young. None of them have held my attention like this version. Alice in Zombieland kept me laughing page after page. I couldn't help but compare each of the scenes with my memory of how it was presented in a more traditional rendition. Alice is still a sweet, innocent girl, though her perfectly pressed dress and starched pinafore does take quite a beating and bloodying.

The story starts with Alice and her sister outside ...more

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Mar 25, 2011 Erin rated it really liked it

When author Lewis Carroll took Alice through the looking glass in 1871, little did he know that a much more gruesome nightmare awaited his dear Alice. When 1864 Alice woke up in a land of wonder, 2011 Alice awoke to a land of the living dead ruled by a power hungry, yet very human, queen.

Forced to listen to her lessons from her sister as they sit their favorite cemetery, Alice notices a black rat who seems to be in a hurry. More startling, he has a pocket watch and was quite verbally worried ab ...more

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Nov 21, 2012 Dani rated it liked it

This was definitely the book I was looking for when I wanted to read "Alice in Zombieland" the first time around. This is also a book you will either love or hate once you're finished reading it. And I say "once you're finished reading it" since it's actually a rather fast read even with it being 256 pages for the ebook version.

This book is exactly what the title says-it's Alice in Wonderland with the addition of zombies. And it was a weird read. There were points I wasn't sure how to feel abou ...more

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Mar 31, 2011 Cheryl rated it liked it

Alice was sitting with her sister outside on the bank. Alice wished she was in the graveyard instead. She loved walking through the graveyard. Suddenly, Alice sees a black rat. A black rat is nothing to awe about but a talking black rat is. The rat goes racing by chanting about being late. Alice takes off after the rat and follows him. Alice ends up in a strange and bizarre world…filled with odd creatures. All Alice can think about is the horrific craving she has for eating fresh meat. What is t ...more

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Jan 27, 2012 Deborah Isner rated it did not like it

Although the idea was intriguing, once I began reading the book I quickly became disenchanted. I was looking for a new story, a further adventure where she ends up with zombies. Instead, I got a frankly, very near plagiarized Alice in Wonderland, with the occasional morose or creepy word replacing one in the book. I enjoy NEW stories. I enjoy new twists on old stories. I enjoy originality, however the author seems to sack originality & instead stands on the cusp of plagiarism just to make a quic ...more

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May 14, 2011 Julia rated it liked it

Alice in Wonderland is one of my favorite stories- that being said, I really enjoyed Alice in Zombieland. Wonderland is already an eccentric place, so I felt that turning it into a Zombieland wasn't too far fetched and the new world fit right into the story. This novel was a lot of fun for me, I love the horror twists on old classics.

This book is disturbing and humorous. A really light, quick read. The illustrations are fabulous. It isn't the typical zombie mash-up, either. I have seen some rev ...more

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Nov 09, 2012 Joseph Barnes rated it liked it

Alice follows a Black Rat instead of a White Rabbit down a grave and into the world of Zombie land. In Zombieland everything is dead. Alice starts to get hungry for flesh but she doesn't understand why. She eventually learns she is a zombie in a world of zombies.

This was a cute take on Alice in Wonderland. I will say however I got the impression the Author had Alice in Wonderland opened on a table and just copied what he saw. He then went back and changed everyone into zombies. Not very orginal ...more

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Dec 31, 2011 Nikki rated it it was amazing

Shelves: modern-fiction

Brilliant, clever humor! Amazing how few words actually need to be changed to create a different story. I deeply love the original classic, and I had a blast reading this revision! Wonderland was perfectly primed to be turned into Zombieland. From the revamped Tenniel sketches to the details of Alice's peculiar hunger, this book is quite entertaining. I would actually love to see it make it onto the big screen! ...more

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Mar 23, 2012 Peyton rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: 1-star

How this dreck survived an editor's desk is beyond me. Instead of writing an all-out adaptation, Cook just inserted the words "zombie" and "dead" willy-nilly throughout Carroll's masterwork. The result is a Victorian novel full of Victorian puns and Tarantino-like gore. I can't help but wonder if the "author", "editors", and marketers of this slop were themselves alive, because it's a lot easier to imagine them desperately seeking brains. ...more

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May 02, 2013 Geraldine O'Hagan rated it did not like it

The original text of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with the words "rabbit", "frog" "fish" and "bread and butter" replaced with "rat" "dead" "dead" and "dismembered hand" respectively, plus a badly-written one-page back-story inserted into the middle of the Mad Hatter's tea party. Also, everyone is zombies. That's it. ...more

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May 20, 2015 Samantha rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy-lands, classics, paranormal, adult, zombies, horror, fantasy

Interesting book. Borrowed the e-book from the public library. Quick read, not very long. Easy to finish within a day if theres enough time, took me 3 and I read a few chapters a day before bedtime. Not as wonderful as the original, but its fun enough and quick enough to be enjoyable. Would I read it again, pry not, but was it worth the first read through, yes.

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Sep 21, 2011 Mandy rated it did not like it

Shelves: nook-books

where were the zombies? she fell, walked around hungry, saw a room of them, woke up. total letdown. no brains. no blood. no gore. no fun.

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Jun 28, 2014 Lia Barley rated it really liked it

This book was exactly what I expect: a fun take on Alice in Wonderland that fed my love of Zombies. It was quick and enjoyable and the illustrations just added to it in a way I loved.

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Apr 25, 2019 Monica Parks rated it it was ok

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(!SPOILERS!)
Nickolas Carols’ book, Alice in Zombieland, is a fiction book about a girl named Alice and her adventures in a world of flesh-eating zombies, referred to as Zombieland- It’s a very self explanatory title. It’s very obviously a type of parody-work off of the original Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. The difference between the two works is that Nickolas’ version is quite gory and very morbid, twisting much of the content into a detailed account of Alice slowly decaying and losin
(!SPOILERS!)
Nickolas Carols’ book, Alice in Zombieland, is a fiction book about a girl named Alice and her adventures in a world of flesh-eating zombies, referred to as Zombieland- It’s a very self explanatory title. It’s very obviously a type of parody-work off of the original Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. The difference between the two works is that Nickolas’ version is quite gory and very morbid, twisting much of the content into a detailed account of Alice slowly decaying and losing herself- not even knowing who she originally was. I personally chose to read this book because I found it in my sisters book shelf when I was very young and only just now have I decided to pick it up and read it. Unfortunately my sister did not and does not live with me, so I don’t see her often. I decided to read this book for sentimental purposes, and I found the story interesting but I didn’t much like the ending at all.

The story takes place around Alice as she collides with a multitude of peculiar characters, ranging from dead-but-living birds with their limbs and feathers falling off to a queen who brutally sentences her people (who, I must mention, are all zombies) to instantaneous death. Their interactions are quite queer, and not much of what they say to each other makes any sense, though it is amusing to read (although tedious at times because it can get rather boring and confusing). The conflict within this story may seem a bit basic, but there’s a bit of it that may actually be a bit deeper. On the surface the conflict may be easily seen as Alice wanting to escape this new and curiously dangerous world she’s trapped in and that she wants to stop the Red Queen, basic stuff like that. Though, if you go a little deeper, you can see that maybe it’s an internal struggle. Throughout the book she goes through all of these changes and she often says the words “I don’t even think I’m me anymore” and “I don’t know who I am”. We can see through these quotes that perhaps the conflict is about her growing up, the struggles of going through changes, etc. If this is true, the theme of the story could be that the struggle of handling change can be overcome with effort and confidence.

I rated this book two stars out of five because the ending was absolutely horrible. It ended with a “then she woke up…” kind of ending but also hinted towards it all having actually happened by raising the rat from the dead. There isn’t really anything wrong with this and the originals did something similar I’m sure, but the way Nickolas phrased and executed this was a bit plain and really just fell flat with me. I’m sure you’d see what I mean if you read the book. That’s the reason I didn’t rate this higher. It’s kind of a “meh” for me, I guess- but that’s only for me personally. I’m sure many others would love and do love this book, and I definitely recommend it to people who like twists on fairy tales or morbid stories. I do not recommend it for young children though, as I’m sure they will likely be scarred.
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Oct 28, 2020 Edward Pissmeoff rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: zombies, sci-fi, comedy, fantasy, adventure

Having read the original years and years ago, I found this a fun re-imagining. Not only did it add a splash of blood and gore to a classic tale of weirdness, but it reignited a love for Wonderland and inspired me to pick up my copy of Carroll's Alice Series (Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and The Hunting of the Snark)
Though hardcore Wonderland fans probably won't enjoy this, zombie fans may get a chuckle and will definitely need to get a copy just to have it in their collec ...more

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Jul 25, 2018 Sarah Elizabeth rated it did not like it

Oh my lawd. I've never not finished a book because it was so terrible. I made it 30% and started skimming, realizing I hated this book. It was so awful. It was badly put together, and I agree with the comments that say it sounds like Carroll's work slapped together with a few zombie phrases. The "gothic-ness" of it all reminds me of a high school cheerleader going on Halloween as a dead angel to be "goth". I can't do it. It's bad. It's really bad. I would not recommend this to my worst enemy. Th ...more

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