The minute he and Alice make eye contact, Alice has staggeringly realistic visions of them together. When Alice begins junior year (Is that the equivalent of year 11? I always forget) at a new high school, it’s fairly predictable that she finds Kat in the same school.Īnyway, it turns out that Kat’s ex-boyfriend-who you just know won’t be ex-ish for long-hangs out with a group of scary boys and girls, one of whom is Cole. In hospital she befriends Kat, the embodiment of your typical tough and sarcastic best friend with a marshmallow centre in a teen novel. If you’re looking for the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts, you’ll be sorely disappointed.Īlice Bell’s life changes the night she loses her family to a car accident in which she also witnesses her father being devoured by monsters.

I wouldn’t have cared if the title were a tongue-in-cheek reference to Carroll’s Alice and that was it, but the entire book seems geared towards exploiting this link: the title, the cover image, the tagline ‘Off with their heads!’, and the series name, The White Rabbit Chronicles. But I wanted to give the book a fair go, because look at that cover and think of the possibilities of a zombiefied version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.īut any link to Lewis Carroll’s original text is tenuous at best. In hindsight, when the the book’s introduction, ‘A Note From Alice’, failed to stir any reaction from me other than, Seriously?, I should have left it at that. The best I can say about this book is that I was compelled to skim it to the end.

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