Alice's father has been crazy her entire life. He sees monsters that aren't there and forbids any member of the family from setting foot out the door after the sun has set. An insane father doesn't make high school life easy and school functions that take place after dark? Forget about attending those. But when Alice's little sister Emma begs her to convince their parents to let her dance in her recital, Alice can't refuse. But she wishes she had. If she had maybe they would still be alive and maybe she wouldn't be seeing the monsters she always considered her father crazy for saying existed. But she did convince them and now she has to learn to survive in a world of monsters without them. 
 This was not what I was expecting. I was hoping for an Alice in Wonderland retelling with some zombie butt kicking, but instead it had a character named Alice with very stretched allusions to the original novel (a rabbit cloud and Alice in Wonderland-esque chapter titles). I know this author as an adult romance novel writer and the romantic tension scenes definitely sizzle, but the overall premise and writing style just didn't click for me. There's a lot of set up and information dumping in the dialogue as Alice is brought into the world of spirit-zombie butt kicking which kept pulling me out of the story. If you're going to give this one a shot, don't go in expecting an Alice in Wonderland retelling.