Book Review -- "Alice in Deadland"

(Warning: Spoiler Alert).

I recently read the book, Alice in Deadland ($.99 on Kindle). The story is set in a post-zombie apocalypse India. Alice is the blond-haired daughter of an American diplomat living in India at the time of the zombie outbreak. And one day, she pursues a rabbit-eared zombie into a tunnel and eventually ends up meeting a half-zombie woman--a scientist from before the zombie outbreak that took a serum after being bitten that mitigated, but did not cure, the zombie infection.

The first part of the book is a sort of zombie mystery. There is an accepted history of the zombie outbreak, which Alice knows. However, what Alice has been taught is not all true. The zombies, while definitely sub-human, are not the mindless, ravenous horde that Alice always believed. And the zombie apocalypse was not an accident of nature.

The second half of the book follows Alice as she finds allies to fight against a cabal of Chinese and their international conspirators that had hoped to take over the world. Alice grows from being merely a good fighter, to being a skilled guerrilla leader.

As you may gather from the synopsis above, the zombies end up playing a back seat role to the rest of the story, which is one of people fighting for liberty against oppression. Although the book focuses on India (and more specifically, the area around Delhi), there are references to a guerrilla war in the former United States against the Chinese. However, there is plenty of action and the book is an easy read. And by "easy read," I don't mean simply written, but rather that it is one that you don't have to force yourself to finish. It is certainly worth the 99 cents for the Kindle version.

In short, if you are looking for a "pure" zombie apocalypse story in the same vein as World War Z or  The Walking Dead, you will be disappointed. The zombie apocalypse is the background, but the focus is on fighting the Chinese and the various traitors that support them. However, if you just want an enjoyable book with some action and a bunch of zombies thrown into the mix, this should fit the bill.