On the way home they are attacked by monsters and Alice watches her father, mother, and eight-year-old sister being horribly killed. He won’t let anyone in the family out after dark, but when Alice’s little sister wants to go to a dance recital on Alice’s birthday, Alice convinces her father to let the family go. Alice is raised by a father who insists that he sees monsters after dark. The title and the cover suggest a whimsical but bloody portal story, but there’s no journey through a strange land – just gruesome violence interspersed with many chapters of high school. That cover might just as well have been subtitled “A book specifically written to make CarrieS salivate with excitement.” I had high expectations, but the book was disappointing on many levels – unconvincing characters, unconvincing world-building, a lack of Alice in Wonderland elements (misleading titles drive me crazy) and a romance that I so very much did not care about. When I saw a book called Alice in Zombieland on a table at the RT Booklovers Convention I did such a rapid double take that I still have whiplash. Genre: Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult
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