Full review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books 
 When I saw a book called Alice in Zombieland on a table at the RT Booklovers Convention I did such a rapid double take that I still have whiplash. That cover might just as well have been subtitled "A book specifically written to make CarrieS salivate with excitement." I had high expectations, but the book was disappointing on many levels - unconvincing characters, unconvincing world-building, a lack of Alice in Wonderland elements (misleading titles drive me crazy) and a romance that I so very much did not care about. 
 Before I move on to the zombie thing, I want to point out that this does not get Cole off the hook as a terrible, terrible person to date since he does in fact get in fights with other people at school just because he's a violent guy. I know there's a whole sub-genre of romance around The Bad Boy but I am not feeling the love here. My anti-bad-boy prejudices aside, the romance isn't built on growing trust or friendship or rapport - it's mostly built on ineveitability, as Alice has visions of kissing Cole and fighting alongside him and everything progresses from there. 
 To Showalter's credit, she tries to twist the zombie concept, which is great because zombies have been, pardon the pun, done to death. Alas, the twist makes no sense at all. Basically, in this book, zombies only exist in the spirit world. They eat people's spirits and "whatever they do to the spirit manifests in the flesh, causing an infection to spread from there." 
 This story might have overcome many of its flaws if it had not been so slow paced. During most of the book, nothing happens. Sometimes a book can benefit from focusing more on character development than on action, but there's no character development either. The only things that change between Alice, Kat, and Cole is that they learn each other's secrets and they make their relationships official - but Kat and Alice are always friends, and that friendship never changes, while Alice and Cole always have the hots for each other, and at the end they just officially have the hots for each other. The exposure of secrets doesn't change the dynamic between people; it just removes one element of tension. Meanwhile the discussions are painfully repetitive, especially when Alice and Cole spend chapters trying to extract information from each other without revealing their own information. This would be very funny except that it goes on forever and is incredibly inane. Neither Cole nor Alice has the common sense or safety instincts of an infant when it comes to disclosing vital information. 
 - Carrie S.