A review by livsinbooks
Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter

4.0

This was fun. I bought the second and third books and haven’t gotten through them. I started the second one for a minute but didn’t continue for a reason I can’t remember. This was very much a YA book and I can’t be hard on it. If I had read this at 14 it wouldve been 5 stars but as an adult, it was clearly building to multiple books and the relationship happened too soon in my opinion. Now the only options to further their character is cringy tropes or like… death and I’m not really into that for this world and the people in it. I might donate the three I have to a little library for someone else to enjoy but I did really enjoy this first one. The action was well paced from what I remember. (Writing this three years later isn’t helping) A lot of the romance felt like it was very middle school coded. I’m all about stories where I can suspend my disbelief and just let whatever weird shit is happening just go but there were a couple… like the very first interaction. I don’t remember exactly what happened but I remember being like ‘this is where you’re going with this story lady? Alright. Lemme buckle in’. I feel like someone was in a tree at some point and I remember liking that chapter. The spooks are something else too. I absolutely love an underground militia and it’s fun in this one. That’s really the word for this book or my experience with it. It was just fun.