"There's good and there's evil, and there's no middle ground, no matter what anyone thinks". 
 Well, after I came upon this phrase, Alice in Zombieland officially went down the rabbit hole for me, with no hope of ever redeeming itself. 
 I suppose there are probably a lot of people who view the world in black and white, and I used to be one of them a while ago. But I've come a long way since then and I'm no longer that person. So I'm always irritated when the plot comes down to the old Good vs. Evil battle, with no shades of grey (no pun intended, lol) allowed in between, because it always sounds a little preachy. I prefer to read about more ambiguous characters and motives behind their actions. But that is only the top of the iceberg, because I had a whole lot more issues with this book. 
 I started reading it with my "crazy teenager mode" full on, so at first I managed to roll perfectly well with everything the story had to offer. I giggled at Ali's and Cole's interactions and thought that I wouldn't judge the characters too harshly. Well, let me tell you I failed miserably somewhere in the middle of the story. One by one, alarms went off in my mind, noting all the ridiculous things about this book. Here, I'm going to point out some of them. 
 *	Ali having no instinct of self-preservation at all. She is basically the TSTL heroine everyone so often rants about. 
 *	Cole being an asshole (look how well it all rhymes!). He dumped his last girlfriend, Mackenzie, just because the girl moved in with him (she had nowhere else to go), because he didn't need "the complication of a live-in girlfriend." Like, what? Are you serious? What kind of boyfriend does that to someone they care about? Have a relationship with? Sleep with? Maybe it is just me, but I can't get over that fact. I really wanted to love that guy, and, by the way, Cole is one of my favorite names, but even that fact didn't save him from my wrath. 
 *	Ali's mother telling her that she should guard her virginity like her biggest asset. WTF? Why are people so obsessed with virginity anyway? 
 *	The concept of zombie existence : "Zombies exist because evil exists. We don't know exactly how it happened, we can only guess... the source of evil was here before we were, and slowly managed to work its way into human life". 
 Enough said. This is such a lame explanation. Does that mean that any "evil" person will eventually turn into a zombie? 
 *	Gradually, Ali turned into one of the most unlikable heroines I ever came across in YA literature. The last straw, the one that made me quit reading this book at 75%, was this scene: 
 Ali and Mackenzie running side by side on treadmills and exchanging "pleasantries", with Ali rubbing into the other girl's face that Cole had dumped her and she was just jealous. 
 Then Ali thinks: "Not one time during her speech had she (Mackenzie) wheezed, the hooker. I was already struggling." 
 So I was kinda glad when Mackenzie finally punched her a couple of moments later. 
 Yeah, I definitely had to quit, before I begin rooting for zombies.