The story starts with Alice and her sister outside enjoying the lovely day. This time they are in a graveyard., and it is a black rat that distracts Alice and leads her astray and down into an open grave. The tale continues to parallel Mr. Lewis's original story line, though the descriptive details and much more dark and dead. Zombie dead that is.
As with the first version, I loved the description of the Mad Hatter's tea party. The teacups are all there, ample food to share and the same company. It was the change in the details that kept me in rapt attention. While I have had many tea parties with my daughter when she was young, I couldn't successfully imitate this one.
I don't know that zombie books will ever become a first choice read for me, but this one kept me coming back for more. I loved the descriptions of the blood spurts and gore, the flesh ragged bones lying around and the listless responses of the 'cards'. Frequently I would stop and read a particularly
To learn more about Lewis Carroll, visit Lenny's Alice in Wonderland Site.
Nick's website and blog The Black Glove Magazine.
Thanks to Sourcebooks for my review copy.
3 comments:
I think these adaptions only really work when you know the story well. I know Pride & Prejudice & Zombies was wonderfully funny to me. I love Alice and think I may have to give this one a try.
hmm, there seemed to be a lot of these zombiefied classics about - I read Pride And Prejudice And Zombies a while ago. Alice in Zombieland isn't a book I'd buy but given the opportunity I'd certainly read it.
It sounds fun, but I think I´ll stick to witches and ghosts when I want a whiff of the paranormal :D
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