Audio Review: Alice in Zombieland (White Rabbit Chronicles #1) by Gena Showalter (Goodreads Author), Natalie Gold (Narrator)

BOOK 1 OF THE WHITE RABBIT CHRONICLES

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. 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.

Well…just when I was confident that I had read every last take on Zombie lore I come across this book. This way of portraying zombies is unique.  I mean when most of us think of zombies we picture the undeaf rising out of the grave then feasting on the living. I do not want to give anything away, but this book has a whole new way of portraying the entire Zombie lore.

Another thing is that I expected Alice in Zombie Land to be a retelling of the Alice in Wonderland story. I mean the title says it all..right?! Well if you thought that then you would have been dead wrong. This is not even remotely a retelling but a whole new story. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that Alice in Zombieland and Alice in Wonderland are worlds apart. I feel both are excellent stories but maybe if I had not have been so focused on the whole retelling and instead read Alice in Zombieland as a story on its’ own I would have been able to enjoy the story more. As it was, I found myself trying to connect invisible dots where there were nothing to connect. I was more than halfway through the audio before it hit me that while the NAME may be similar, the STORY was not.

I thought the whole romance part was done well. I have to admit that I wasn’t sure about a “zombie” romance story, but I need not have worried as the romantic parts did not involve zombies per se.  I saw that audible romance package had a whole zombie section though so maybe a romance that directly involves zombies are still out there, I haven’t read it yet.

A troupe that I hate is the whole-install love thing. I mean who believes in that shit? I was afraid that Alice in Zombie Land was going in that direction. And it did, BUT the way and the story about how the two people “fell” in love were NOT was I was expecting, and that made it all the better in my opinion.

I feel that this is one f those books where the less you know, the better. If you are looking for a retelling of Alice in Wonderland, you will not find it in the story of Alice in Zombieland. What you WILL find is a complete

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