Aren't they all launched on crazy adventures at one point or another? For me, the connection was just a little bit too weak and unconvincing. But then again, we could probably say the same thing about practically every other heroine from a YA paranormal story. One might argue that the connection between Alice in Zombieland and Alice in Wonderland is a more metaphorical one, and the car accident that claimed the lives of Ali's family members and threw her right in the middle of a zombie-infested world was similar to Alice's falling into the rabbit hole. I didn't care much for the rabbit-shaped cloud, I thought it was a forced and awkward addition that was only there to draw fake parallels between the two (totally unrelated) stories.

For the most part of the book I felt that Showalter was trying too hard to mold the story into something that would be -even only remotely - resembling Alice in Wonderland. The storyline wasn't bad at all, the pacing was good, the intrigue was very well thought-out and quite twisty, and the ending just totally blew me away. And the worst part is, if not for the faked connection to Alice in Wonderland, I would've probably enjoyed this book a lot more. I won't lie, I felt just a tiny little bit cheated. Well, as it turns out, if you're looking for all that, you're better off picking up Zombies Don't Cry or ZOM-B (and the last one is super, super dark and disturbing!). I thought it would be quirky, thrilling, perhaps a little bit gore, and definitely totally bad-ass. I did expect to see a darker, more sinister and twisted version of Alice in Wonderland. I must say that this alone was a little bit of a let down. It's an entirely different story, and the only things these two books have in common is the similar title, the name of the lead heroine and the white rabbit theme. It's not a retelling, it's not even loosely based around the original tale. It's probably best to begin by clarifying that Alice in Zombieland has very little to do with Lewis Carrol's classic.

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