[[Book]] Alice in Zombieland (White Rabbit Chronicles #1) !PDF!
Alice in Zombieland (White Rabbit Chronicles #1)
By : by Gena Showalter (Goodreads Author)
ratings : 37,200
ratings reviews : 5,099
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Original Title : Alice in Zombieland
ISBN : 0373210582 (ISBN13: 9780373210589)
Edition Language : English
Series : White Rabbit Chronicles #1
Hardcover, 404 pages
Published September 25th 2012 by Harlequin Teen
Characters : Alice Bell, Cole Holland, Emma Lily
Setting : South Carolina Book Award for Young Adult (2015)
Description : She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.If anyone had 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. She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.If anyone had 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.
Literary Awards : South Carolina Book Award for Young Adult (2015)
REVIEWS :Whether or not you enjoy this book depends on what you were expecting to begin with. No Really. Look at that cover, reread the synopsis and decide right now what you’re hoping from this book. Is it:a) A dark, twisted retelling of Alice in Wonderland with zombie creatures?b) A high school melodrama about ghost/zombies with no real Alice in Wonderland connection.If you thought B then good for you. Read this book. If you thought A then back the hell off now. This is not the book for you and you Going into this I had a really good feeling that I wouldn't like it and I was right. First problem is I don't like zombies (which is obviously a personal preference thing), second problem is the fact that this is just a superficial high school drama, and the third and biggest problem for me is the fact that this is not a damn Alice in Wonderland retelling. People had warned me about that going in but I thought I'd at least get something considering the title of this and it's sequels but NOPE I As you can see this is another DNF review, because I can only take so much torture, and reading this was overkill. I made it about 120-something pages, and then I reached my breaking point.What I Oh So Desperately Wanted: An awesome, zombiefied Alice in Wonderland retelling with lots of action.What I Got: Crappy, unoriginal, stereotypical teen melodrama.So we have Alice, a girl who's dad is claimed to be psycho cause he sees these "monsters". And then her whole family gets killed in a car crash OFF WITH HER HEAD!!Alice in Wonderland with zombies? Not so much. Creative zombie ghosts lore (… you heard me. Zombie. Ghosts) with great humor and charming characters? Definitely! Despite the title, Alice in Zombieland really has nothing much to do with Alice in Wonderland. There may be some scattered references, but it's really a unique story all on its own. While some may be disappointed, I wasn't terribly familiar with the specifics of the classic tale, so I found myself having a lot of fun Alice in Zombieland tells the story of Alice, who goes by Ali, and her life ends up being a non-stop zombie hunt. Alice is a sixteen years old girl, pretty ordinary, except that she's not. She has a pretty regular mother, an absolutely funny and charming little sister and a "crazy" father. She's always lived with her father rules:Never 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 we all have our time and Does the title Alice in Zombieland along with the intriguing synopsis and lovely cover has you convinced that you have to read this book? No? Never mind.But if your answer is ‘Yes’, then you need to ask yourself this:Are you expecting to find a gory, engrossing, retelling of Alice in Wonderland with zombie goodness putridness? No? Okay.So far so good.Are you prepared to go through the same overused insta-lust bullshit between the main characters with hardly any explanations or focus on the plot 4 COLE STARS <333I think everybody knows Alice in Wonderland..but did you know that there is also another Alice?? With Zombies...Yes yes you heard me...there are zombies in this book...like many of them!!!But these zombies weren't what I expected and the concept was different because the hunters had to fight leaving their bodies aside and using the spirit!!It was interesting and very unique!!Alice moves in with her grandparents after her parent's and sister's death.She tries to accept her LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! Sweet Jesus, Ali is not your typical sit-back-and-take-it heroine -- she's wild for a girl who looks like a doll, and I SERIOUSLY LOVE THAT. Go kick some invisible zombie butt, Ali! (: ----- Alice in Zombieland is, quite frankly, not what I was expecting. It's BETTER. It ROCKS. It totally KICKED ASS, which I guess should've been expected of a Gena Showalter book incorporating zombies into my favourite childhood story. I always used to want to go to Wonderland I was obviously expecting too much from this book, because boy was I disappointed.Alice was an okay character, I felt sorry for her because of the way she lost her whole family, and the way she blamed herself for it. It must have been really hard for her to find herself so alone, and to have to deal with the knowledge that the monsters her father raved about were actually real!The storyline in this revolved around Alice learning to fight zombies, and it got old real quick. I got bored. I felt I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but Alice in Zombieland has very little to do with Lewis Carroll’s classic. In fact, aside from the title itself and the white rabbit-shaped cloud that warns our Ali of danger, there’s nothing connecting the two. As someone who stays as far away from retellings as possible, I was overjoyed when I discovered this, but if you go into this expecting a new version of that story, you might find yourself disappointed.Alice in Zombieland is, above all, a fun little My Goodread friends have either really, really liked this book or really, really hated it. Now, I know why, and I have so many things to say about it - and not good ones.First of all, I thought this book was going to be a parody of Alice in Wonderland or have some kind of parallelism or allusion to it, but the only things that lined up were a character named Alice and the mention of a white rabbit - in this book, it was the stupid clouds. So yeah, not much correlation to Alice in Wonderland. Reading Progress:This is how I reacted to this book:(Link: http://sammo6661deth.deviantart.com/a...)Actually review here:Note: I read the translated version of this book.There is one word I think is the most suitable for this supposed Alice in Wonderland retelling, and this word is ridiculous.(1) Calling this book an Alice-retelling is equated to lying. All of the Alice-references are so poorly done and senseless (a bunch of teenagers throwing a regular beer-and-disco-music party is equated to Not much of an Alice book at all. But so much fun! Review to come. I enjoyed this one very much.I liked the plot, the characters, the "zombies", the story, but specially, I liked the romance. The romance is the main reason I gave it 4 stars. Usually, YA Fantasy books leave me wanting for more romance, but this one satisfied me so it gets 4 stars..
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