Alice in Zombieland (White Rabbit Chronicles, #1) in All Challenges All The Time

Jan 04, 2014 Shelby rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: bad-boys-to-steal-your-heart, paranormal, deserve-additional-reads, eminently-rereadable, kickass-heroine, hilarity-humor-and-whatnot, destined-mates-bonded, suspense, alpha-males, m-f

Every new Gena Showalter series I pick up fascinates me further. Whether it’s her paranormal adult novels or her YA books, I’m always highly entertained. This series is no exception! Sleep was not to be had until I finished this book last night. Now I will say there wasn’t much in the way of a connection to the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland. Still I absolutely couldn’t put it down. I haven’t exactly read much in the way of zombie novels, but this was wonderful and warm in spite of th Every new Gena Showalter series I pick up fascinates me further. Whether it’s her paranormal adult novels or her YA books, I’m always highly entertained. This series is no exception! Sleep was not to be had until I finished this book last night. Now I will say there wasn’t much in the way of a connection to the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland. Still I absolutely couldn’t put it down. I haven’t exactly read much in the way of zombie novels, but this was wonderful and warm in spite of the heavy subject matter. I felt awful for Alice and the tragedy that’s befallen her life, but she’s got fight, no question about that.

Alice Bell’s life has been anything but normal, all because her father is more than a little crazy. He believes there are monsters out there in the dark and runs his families lives accordingly. Alice has never been to a slumber party or any event that would keep her out after dark. Their house is a fortress and her father drinks to keep himself calm. Her mother indulges her father’s quirks and Alice has learned not to buck the trend. But her little sister Emma hasn’t quite learned to live with it all yet. She is the light in all their eyes and while it’s Alice’s birthday, she’d do anything to make her sister happy even if it means fighting her parents to let Emma perform at her recital that night. That one decision changes Alice’s life forever and shows her maybe her dad wasn’t as crazy as she thought he was.

Ali has certainly had a horrific time of it. I can’t image losing your entire family like that in one fell swoop, leaving you the only survivor. Top that off with suddenly starting to see that the things that go bump in the night might not be as fictional as you thought and wow, suck city. Yet I loved Ali pluck! As more and more pieces came to light she just kept soldiering on. But not in a way that belittled or denied the pain of what she’d went through. The way she bottled everything up initially, couldn’t even think her sister’s name, until it couldn’t be pushed down anymore and all went boiling over was so true to life in my opinion.

Ok so this is definitely leaning towards an insta-love/destined mates kind of thing with the insane connection between Ali and Cole, but it worked for me. I liked that it wasn’t smooth sailing between the two of them, that they were teenagers not sure what the hell was going on with the visions and feelings cropping up between them. Cole, for obvious reasons, comes across as a bit older than the high school age he really is, but that makes sense to me with all the fighting he’s had to do in his life. Yet, he’s not one hundred percent smooth with the girl yet. Course I am susceptible to bad boy adoration and Cole has that number down perfectly. :D

I found the idea of these “spiritual” zombies fascinating. I liked that they weren’t your stereotypical zombies stumbling around sending everyone screaming. Stalker zombies…sweet! I enjoyed that these kids weren’t instant healers either. They didn’t have superpowers per se, just the abilities to destroy zombies. Sure they’re “more than” other kids, but they’re not superhuman to the unbelievable degree.

Then there’s Kat…best friend ever! I love her complete self focused monologues when she’s really such a caring soul dealing with something too big for someone her age. I adored how she took Ali under her wing and just claimed her as her best friend. Oh and yes, darling, make that boy beg! Sure he may not really be guilty in the way you think he is, but every boy deserves to have to crawl every once in awhile. I enjoyed the dynamics between all the kids actually. Of course our nasty section of baddies…grrrrrrr! Spreading rumors and being awful little guttersnipes trying to control yucky zombies that just need to be dead, horrid little pests is what they are.

Sure this book is a little melodramatic and over the top in places, but I kinda like that in my YA fantasy. I like our growly alpha male bad boy and his group of deviants still fighting the good fight. There’s plenty of action to keep things interesting and an engaging tone to keep the story flowing nicely. I don’t look for anything incredibly deep with my YA fantasy novels and yet there’s a lot of under currents and huge life changing events that Ali’s dealing with in this story. I for one was enthralled and can’t wait to read book 2!
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Aug 05, 2019 Keli rated it liked it

Shelves: 2-5-rounded-to-3, meh, i-wanted-to-like-it-more

This is a hard book for me to rate. The idea seemed fun but I just found it too religious. I mean she may as well just chucked a sermon at me. It was like Christian rock, trying really hard to be something but ultimately it's just a god sell, which just doesn't appeal to me.
I don't like overly religious books, which is why I can't give it more than 3 stars. But it's way more action packed and well written than 2.
If you don't mind all that god stuff and you like ya uf/horror, you'll probably rea ...more

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Jan 09, 2015 Sara Mojica rated it it was amazing

Shelves: covergasm, hot-boy, action-filled, bad-ass, fairy-tails, pretty-covers, kick-ass, swoon, bad-boy

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So this was my very first zombie book. I won't lie, I was a little skeptical at first, I mean really, zombies? I'm glad I picked this book up! It was refreshing and full of action packed scenes and of course a slow building romance.

What I really enjoyed about this book is that Gena Showalter kept the zombies as zombies. Usually the creatures of then night turn out to be the love interest or they turn out to be good instead of evil but in Alice in Zombieland, ...more

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Apr 24, 2013 Mandiann rated it really liked it

Shelves: a-z-2013, fairytale-retellings

I really enjoyed this book! I can't wait to read the next one. I was hesitant to read it. I tend to avoid scary books due to the very vivid nightmares I frequently have. Don't let the title fool you! This book is not scary! I was a little bit turned off halfway through as I found the love story reminding me of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan from Twilight (except that Ali, despite her dumb decisions was much more bad ass and less annoying). ...more

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Oct 31, 2018 Chené Tuck rated it really liked it

What a touch and go book for me. I liked it but kinda expected a lil more. The were some cool twists and def some great characters with some super emotional parts. Hoping that book 2 steps it up!

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