He’ll be coming for you.”įast forward and Ali is living in a world with no color-it was her fault that she bribed them all to go out after dark for her sister’s first ever recital, it’s her fault she used her birthday as a bargaining tool….or so she thinks. They all respect him, but think he is nutso-I mean, you can’t see anything, so why is he always acting so shifty? Then one night, Alice spots a rabbit shaped cloud and she points it out to her sister as they ooh and ahh….then that fateful night, after seeing the rabbit cloud (See it? See the reference?), they have a horrible crash after her father spots ‘zombies’…and Alice sees them too-but its too late. She has her normal mom, her super awesome sister, and her crazy, neurotic, non-existent zombie-seeing father. The time had come they were here.Īlice loves her family dearly. Not about a car wreck, but about the zombies. The round thing in its hands now had hands of its own-clock hands, tick, tick, ticking away. It was fuzzy, and had I not read that random review I might not have noticed, but it was there-even if it was merely a glimpse. the Queen of Hearts and all her little cards (soldiers, you know what I mean).

As someone in another review that I read stated, I started to see the characters emerge as their inspirations near the end-i.e.

liked, and it was a great way to direct the story in the way it needed to veer. The girl’s name is Alice, though she likes to be called Ali for short, and the chapter titles are things like ‘Off with her head!’ Now, that was plenty awesome for me-see, that was just a fun little poke at what we all knew and…. I think it needs to be said up front that there was hardly an association with AIW, it was more of an inspiration for this story. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything I knew and loved was gone. Truth be told, I didn’t care for AIW as a child, but I still find it fascinating when an author chooses to re-vamp an old fairy tale (was that really a fairy tale? It was so creepy) so I chose to give this one a go on the recommendation of my brilliant British friend :P. I didn’t need the Alice In Wonderland references to be obvious or even close to the original telling. Well, there was a lot of good in this story….and there was also some bad. Alice in Zombieland ( The White Rabbit Chronicles #1)

White rabbit chronicles series