<blockquote><b><i>“I’d rather the world considered me crazy while I go down fighting than spend the rest of my life hiding from the truth.” </i></b></blockquote> Well, color me surprised, I actually enjoyed this book a lot. I don't know if because I needed a break from all the emotions of "The Rose and The Dagger", but this book came at the right time for me and I found myself having fun while reading it, thanks to Ali's naivety and Kat's hilariousness. As you can guess from the title, this is a kind of retelling of Alice in Wonderland, but with zombies. Not something that would have gotten me, especially because I was not fond of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (even though I absolutely loved the movie, go figure). I was won over by the mythology of the zombies in this world (I still think we're missing stuff, I don't know if that's the purpose and more will be revealed in the next books or if it is indeed lacking), Ali's character growth and the charming secondary characters (EMMA AND KAT, GUYS). I love how the author explored how inexperienced Ali was for a teenager because of her upbringing, how she was dealing with the realization that her father was right all along, her grief and the new things happening at school and at home, how she adjusted to it all - and how she overcome all that and managed to develop through the novel, and kick some zombie ass while doing it. The only thing that annoyed me was the insta love. I don't know, I couldn't connect with Cole, therefore I couldn't like him enough to enjoy their romance. Also, I think Ali kind of obsessed too much over him to a point where it bothered me and their romance took up a lot of the book that could be used for more background on Anima, for exemple, on the other slayers (like Bronx, who I think will be in the novels a lot, but we don't know what he did to earn the house arrest ankle). We could use some backstory for Justin and Jaclyn as well, but I'm hoping we'll get more on them in the next book. There's also a lot of unexplained stuff regarding Ali's powers and why she's the only one who have all of them, how the diary connects with her family and how a slayer develops their power. These are a few things I'm hoping will be breached in the next books to wrap up the details of this zombie world nicely. The ending was too fast too and I think it was kind of unnecessary - the events that happened in the last 4-5 chapters could have been easily in the next book, being the main event in it. I think the author had room to explore the situation more. I ended up giving 3.5 stars because of these issues, but I still liked it a lot and am continuing with the series. It's not exactly a light reading because of the violence and some graphic scenes (especially in book 2, that I started already), but it's a fun one and if you like Alice in Wonderland and zombies, you should dig into it, pun intended.