by Gena Showalter
Rating: 5 Bows!
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. 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….
I wish I could go back and do a thousand things differently.
I'd tell my sister no.
I'd never beg my mother to talk to my dad.
I'd zip my lips and swallow those hateful words.
Or, barring all of that, I'd hug my sister, my mom and my dad one last time.
Had anyone 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….
I wish I could go back and do a thousand things differently.
I'd tell my sister no.
I'd never beg my mother to talk to my dad.
I'd zip my lips and swallow those hateful words.
Or, barring all of that, I'd hug my sister, my mom and my dad one last time.
So this was my very first zombie book. I won't lie, I was a little skeptical at first, I mean really, zombies? I'm glad I picked this book up! It was refreshing and full of action packed scenes and of course a slow building romance.
What I really enjoyed about this book is that Gena Showalter kept the zombies as zombies. Usually the creatures of then night turn out to be the love interest or they turn out to be good instead of evil but in Alice in Zombieland, zombies are bad, period. The originality of what zombies really are was a refreshing twist on the decaying walking corpse.
Now, to get into the characters. Alice: I liked how she was able to turn her grief into something useful, it gave her a purpose. She didn't wallow in self pity for long and that, in my opinion, was good because it gave us a more fast paced story. Her determination to avenge her family made her strong and nothing deterred her, and that in itself makes her stand out from the typical "I need saving" heroine. Cole: my oh my. Tall, dangerous, tattooed, bad tempered. What more can you ask for? Oh yeah, fiercely protective. *SWOON* He's a bit of a hard-ass at the beginning but he has reasons and to say he is fiercely loyal to his cause is an understatement. The only issue I had with Cole and his group of badasses was that the way they were described as reminded me of someone that was 22 or older when in reality they were 17. There are a lot of characters in this book and each one has their own personality. You'll love some and you'll hate some.
Over all the book was fantastic and different. If other books about zombies are like this, then I'm diving straight into the zombie genre train asap!
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