Review: Not to be confused with Alice in Zombieland
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2014
(Book 1) Not to be confused with Alice in Zombieland, though this story's main character is a girl named Alice and it is based around a world of Biters (zombies). The entire world is at war, China and its Red Guards are the big hands here attempting to rule with some help from the hired hands of a large combat unit called Zeus. A few colonies of people still exist dotted around. Some of the people of these colonies cooperate with the Red Guard for their safety by sending some of their people as "volunteers" who toil in camps and farms - some are recruited for the fighting troops but most are tortured and work in horrific condition of hard labor. Some of these little colonies remember what freedom is and attempt to eek our their own existence by fighting Red Guard and Biters alike just to keep their people safe and most of all - free. Life as Alice, a hardened fighter at age 15, knows it all changes when she follows a Biter wearing bunny ears down a hole in the ground to discover a Biter underground base and she meets the Queen of the Biters. Through the Queen, Alice learns many things that were kept out of the public media and knowledge such as how the Biters came to be along with who and why the war started to make the world as it is now - far different in some ways than it was before yet Alice realizes there are still many similarities such as those in high political places have a greed for more power regardless of the cost to get it.(Book 2) Alice, Bunny Ears, Hatter and the rest of the gang in Deadland just can't seem to catch a break or stay out of trouble! A great second book to a (so far) enjoyable zombie series. I have to purchase the rest of the series because I need to know where things go on from here. I keep thinking that eventually Alice needs to go to the US...(Book 3) While this book is a prequel to the Alice in Deadland series, it certainly should not be read first. It details the events that lead up to the Rising, some key players that Alice meets in the first book and what they were doing prior to and during the early days of the Rising. You also find out how the country becomes known as the Deadlands and how her mother settles on the name Alice for her unborn child. Alice's family, General Chen, Appleseed, Dr. Protima and Bunny Ears are all key players with very interesting back stories. Even though this is a prequel, I strongly suggest reading it as it was released - as the third book in the series. If you read it first then there may not be any surprises or "the big reveal" for you when Alice meets the Queen in book 1.