This book has gotten very mixed reviews from what I have seen. At first I was excited to read this, then apprehensive when I saw all these reviews about the book and the collective disappointment it seemed to come with from the lack of 'Alice in Wonderland'-ness. I have actually read Alice in Wonderland and I noticed quite a few similarities - small ones, but similarities nonetheless.
These similarities became more and more infrequent as the story continued, and Gena took over with - her own twist - personally, I'm not sure that was the best decision ever. I enjoyed looking for and noticing all these similarities - it excited me.
I appreciated the sarcastic humour of Gena's characters - Ali, in particular made me giggle several times. It has been written from Ali's point of view, so contains some hilarious and sarcastic thoughts which I quite enjoyed and could almost relate to (she's 17 I believe, I am 18 - but we have a similar sarcastic, smart alec kind of humour).
I found the book fun to read for the most part. She kept me guessing about what would happen next, for the most part. Some things were predictable, some things were really not. I found Gena used some serious cliches in her novel, which was slightly annoying. I mean the new girl, beautiful, something was different about her - falls for the bad boy, brooding in the corner with piercings and secrets on his lips - who hasn't heard that one before?? Some of the characters can be irritating at times, but then they can also be loveable.
Alice in Zombieland could be seen as repetitive. She and Cole's relationship is a little back and forth - having visions of them making out all the time... Then they would ACTUALLY make out all the time, she fights zombies, gets hurt, almost dies, gets saved. And the same thing happens the next time she fights them. Then the next.
I liked it enough that I would read the second one. I found myself still wanting to know what happened that I continued to read on. I was able to skim some of it. The text language (for texts written in the book) was annoying, but that is possibly because even though I'm a teenager, I use proper grammar and spelling in my communication. I think she was just trying to be relatable to American Teens - which she probably was with many.
Honestly. I did enjoy the book. Some things annoyed me as mentioned above. But ultimately, the book wasn't written badly by any means and I still wanted to read it, which is the sign of a successful book really.
I would give this one a 3 or possibly 3.5 out of 5.
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