Gena Showalter’s novel, Alice in Zombieland, is about a girl who deals with the death of her parents and has to face the cause, zombies. She wants nothing more than to stop the zombies from “destroying other families,”(page 230).On this journey she finds out that this version of the undead is not the type people learn about from movies. These zombies are spirits that consume people from the inside.

The story centers on the main characters, Alice, her friend Kat, Cole, and his posse of zombie slaying friends. She starts off with her family at a recital for her sister. The night turns sour when she sees a rabbit cloud and her entire family dies in a car crash. She was the only survivor. The rest of the book is about her depression and her escape from it which is to kill every zombie she can. The zombies are the reason her family was killed so the only way she can sleep at night is to slay every last one.

I do not think I could relate to any of the characters in the story simply because they are so exaggerated. Kat is a crazy girl that drinks a lot and wants her ex-boyfriend to “crawl” back to her. She wants him back but she constantly tries to tell him how much she hates him. Cole constantly gets into fights and makes everyone scared of him because he loves to be alone. Alice is into the cliché “bad boy” type that Cole is. He also likes her but he keeps trying to put distance in between them.

If I were asked about my personal feelings about the book I would honestly say it isn’t anything that special. It is a book about zombies to pass the time and entertain the audience. The characters in themselves are generic, however, I would gladly recommend this book to anyone around the age of 13-19 simply because of the zombies.