Resident Evil: Retribution - The Official Movie Novelization

Resident Evil #4

by John Shirley

EVIL GOES GLOBAL

Just as she finds a safe haven, free from the Undead, Alice is kidnapped by her former employees - the Umbrella Corporation. Regaining consciousness, she finds herself trapped in the most terrifying scenario imaginable.

RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION THE OFFICIAL MOVIE NOVELIZATION

The T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the world's population into legions of flesh-eating monsters. Reunited with friends and foes alike - Rain Ocampo, Carlos Olivera, Jill Valentine, Ada Wong, Leon Kennedy, and even Albert Wesker - she must fight her way back to reality in order to survive.

The countdown has begun, and the fate of the human race rests on her shoulders.

MY NAME IS ALICE. AND THIS IS MY STORY...
...THE STORY OF HOW I DIED.

Genres: Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Zombies, Collections, Action

345 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

John Shirley won the Bram Stoker Award for his story collection Black Butterflies, and is the author of numerous novels, including the best-seller DEMONS, the cyberpunk classics CITY COME A-WALKIN', ECLIPSE, and BLACK GLASS, and his newest novels STORMLAND and A SORCERER OF ATLANTIS.

He is also a screenwriter, having written for television and movies; he was co-screenwriter of THE CROW. He has been several Year's Best anthologies including Prime Books' THE YEAR'S BEST DARK FANTASY AND HORROR anthology, and his nwest story collection is IN EXTREMIS: THE MOST EXTREME SHORT STORIES OF JOHN SHIRLEY. His novel BIOSHOCK: RAPTURE telling the story of the creation and undoing of Rapture, from the hit videogame BIOSHOCK is out from TOR books; his Halo novel, HALO: BROKEN CIRCLE is coming out from Pocket Books.

His most recent novels are STORMLAND and (forthcoming) AXLE BUST CREEK. His new story collection is THE FEVERISH STARS. STORMLAND and other John Shirley novels are available as audiobooks.

He is also a lyricist, having written lyrics for 18 songs recorded by the Blue Oyster Cult (especially on their albums Heaven Forbidden and Curse of the Hidden Mirror), and his own recordings.

John Shirley has written only one nonfiction book, GURDJIEFF: AN INTRODUCTION TO HIS LIFE AND IDEAS, published by Penguin/Jeremy Tarcher.

John Shirley story collections include BLACK BUTTERFLIES, IN EXTREMIS, REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY WEIRD STORIES, and LIVING SHADOWS.

source: Amazon

Reviews

[Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ Martin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾

[Aishu Rehman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Greatly improves the movie. The action is neatly described, some additional scenes are added and you have unlimited SFX budget in your mind to improve the action set pieces. Here's the thing. I loved so much the story that I actually watched the movie just to be disappointed by poor acting and ridiculous SFX. A very good tie in novel, with added detail to make the cast more human and additional scenes that wraps the story into a no-nonsense zombie adventure.

[Hikaru · Rating 1 out of 5]

I WISH I COULD GIVE SOMETHING HALF A STAR BECAUSE THIS DOESN'T DESERVE A FULL ONE. Really it doesn't deserve any, but I'm being nice, because I did like one thing.

NOTE THAT I AM NOT FINISHED WITH THIS YET and I'm not sure I will because I am 76 pages in and the amount of problems I've found with this book are numerous.

Now. I don't know if this is the fault of the screenplay (because this is a movie novelisation) or just terrible writing but there were a LOT of problems with this and I don't necessarily want to blame the author, but maybe I need to definitely blame an editor. Was this even proofread?

I liked how the prologue was formatted into short little "chapters" that recapped previous movies/events without making it seem like a boring recap. Fabulous, because it's been a while since I've seen any of them. I liked the prologue chapters. My ire starts when the actual story starts. First of all, I hate it when, as a reader, I'm constantly being beaten over the head with details. I get it--the Arcadia is a converted tanker. It's a vessel out on sea. It's a ship. It's a boat. It floats on water. I don't need to be reminded of this constantly--I can remember things, my short term memory is fine, and I'm sure other readers' have perfectly working short term memories.

Another thing repeated over the course of at least a page: Wesker being dead. (Supposedly.) We get it. She riddled him with bullets (so says the text) and he's fish food. Supposedly. Stop telling us this and get on with everything!

And then we get to things like this:

[Alice thought she caught a glimpse of one of the mechanical scarabs, on Jill's bosom.]

and another example:

[Alice wondered, aloud.]

Why is there a comma there? That sentence looks fine without one, so why is it there? What do you need a momentary pause for? Nothing is being explained as an aside.

We have a mention of a Tom laughing because Todd said "shit" and his daughter Becky can read lips. Who the hell is Tom? He's never mentioned again. Was that supposed to be Todd? Why did no one catch that? Was this edited?

The author seems to love using two words over and over again: "rapacious" and "milky". Everything does something in a "rapacious" way and everything is some kind of "milky" something--milky white, milky coloured, milky substance. There are other words you can use! Cloudy, murky, foggy, filmy...to name a few.

[It was a kind of inverted, diabolic mockery of the resurrection of Christ.]

I am not entirely sure why you would use that as a simile to describe the zombie apocalypse. Where the hell did this comparison even come from?

[A young Latino woman...]

Now I don't know much Spanish but "Latino" is masculine and "Latina" is feminine. You don't say "a young Latina woman" either, because it has the feminine ending. You'd say either "a young Latina" or "a young Hispanic woman". I think anyone with a basic grasp of word endings in Spanish would realise that "Latino woman" is incorrect.

AND THEN we move on to blatant contradictions that could have easily been fixed with even the most basic of proofreading (of which I am convinced there was none). Consider the case of Alice's boots.

From page 66:

[In it she found a black Umbrella Corporation combat outfit, neatly folded, as well as a pair of boots. Her size.]

Page 67:

[...then pulled on the black outfit. It fit perfectly, of course. But there were no shoes--she was left barefoot.]

ON PAGE 70:

[Her bare feet felt the rough, cold concrete beneath them.]

ON PAGE 76:

[Something grabbed Alice's ankle, and she looked down to see the kogal gnashing at her leg. At that moment she was grateful for the boots.]

DOES SHE HAVE BOOTS OR DOES SHE NOT HAVE BOOTS? MAKE UP YOUR MIND!

So now I'm wondering: is this book worth it to finish? Is the movie like this? Because if the movie was contradicting itself every two minutes to the point where I'd be rewinding scenes to see if maybe I missed something, then that's a crappy movie, but you can at least FORGIVE movie goofs--scenes are done in multiple takes so some things are slightly out of place sometimes. But in the written word, when it's so easy to change things, so easy to look back and realised you goofed--and change it so it's correct--these things are less forgivable.

This book is a fast read, I will give it that. And if it didn't have all these problems--problems I found WITHIN THE FIRST 76 PAGES--it'd be a campy, enjoyable read. But when I'm running into all sorts of contradictions and errors and whatnot every five or so pages, I end up getting frustrated and feeling let down. You pay people to look things over--who didn't do their job? Was this the fault of the screenplay from which this was adapted? Or is it just bad writing?

For now I'm marking this as read--and something I will probably not attempt to reread or finish in the future.

Overall rating: 0.5 Stars out of 5

[Taisynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is book number four of the Resident Evil novelizations. I was really disappointed there wasn’t a book for Afterlife, so the next book we get is for Resident Evil: Retribution. This starts shortly after she was freed all the captives on the ship, with some familiar faces: Claire and Chris Redfield, K-Mart. It begins when the ship is attacked.

This fills in all the gap material! Why Alice and Becky bonded, how Wesker survived to reappear in Retribution, Jill and Alice’s different means of captivity by the Umbrella Corporation, and even introduces some juicy side characters that were not feature in the movie!

It really had me hooked, because this book explains so much that we’re left vague or unmentioned in the movies! I got super excited at the 75% mark and just could not put it down because it filled in so much new information about the characters, their feelings towards each other, as well as more background about how Alice had been exploited by the Umbrella Corp. even before the T-Virus escaped.

I don’t want to give spoilers, but if you loved the movies, you’ll love this novelization!

I will mention though that there are places where the book could use some proofreading as well as a portion of the book that starts her bare footed but somehow she manages to have boots on. In the movie the boots were in the drawer, but in this book she somehow magically gets books. They’re minor mistakes but maybe the publisher should take note.

[Jessica Fyffe · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. So much that I've ordered the rest. Never thought I'd enjoy a movie novelization this much

[Ben Carpenter · Rating 1 out of 5]

I can’t go through with this. I’ll keep the good childhood memories of the films and leave this terrible writing alone.

Christ it’s bad.

Also… who the hell is Tom?!

[Adrian Santiago · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was going to say that while the other novelizations had some background info before the events on the movies and this didn't, Retribution actually creates a little subplot and a very good one.

And, also, this was the longest one of the novelizations I read from the series. There's a lot more of details and stuff. I end up liking it.

Even the little things left out were good ones. But, the author says he believes there's no contradiction between the movies and the novelization but at the start Alice or other character mentions that zombis can't swim while on the Afterlife movie we see that they can, and then Ray and some plagas also do it. Besides that, it was good.

[Leigh Ann · Rating 1 out of 5]

Deaf reader reviewing books with deaf characters. This book is listed on my ranked list of books with deaf characters.

I'm going to preface this with the fact that I realize this is a novelization of the film, which did not provide great deaf rep even though it starred a deaf actress in the role of Becky, and did use actual ASL. The audience was just as confused as me as to how Alice could sign, which Shirley attempts to explain in the novel. I recognize that Shirley probably did his best with what he had, but given that the novel doesn't exactly align with the film (in that he tossed in a few extra scenes or changed them from the film), I am going to treat this author as though he had the opportunity to correct the film's representation.

There are many issues with the deaf rep in this novel, which largely stem from Shirley's inability to keep things consistent. Overall, the deaf character would have been much better off dying in the simulation because the rep started off okay, then plummeted downhill the longer the story went on. There were no ups and downs--it was just consistently worse as the novel went on.

Let's discuss.

Becky, the daughter of Alice and Todd, is a 7-year-old girl who was born without inner ear structures, making her totally deaf. It seems that Alice is the only person in the family who bothered to learn signs for/with Becky, as the girl must lipread her father and grandmother, who gets frustrated with how Becky speaks.

Although this background is fairly realistic, Becky soon proves to be one of the most unrealistic characters I've ever seen:

We start off okay: As they are attacked by zombies, Becky keeps screaming and crying, unable to hear herself, which is realistic until Shirley says that she sobs "silently." How would a born-deaf seven-year-old in a life or death situation cry quietly? Doesn't make any sense.

As I forced myself to keep turning the pages, I realized that there is virtually nothing about Becky that makes sense. I don't know if the author has just never interacted with a child, let alone a deaf child--but Becky is not a realistic child character. Let me list off a few points:

1. Becky makes Alice promise not to leave her side, then cheerily runs off on her own, no longer upset about having been chased and terrorized by zombies, that her dad is missing, that the walls and floor are covered in blood, etc. Although she asks Alice why her hair is now black instead of blonde, she is fine without receiving an answer.
2. Later, Becky is “strangely” unable to recognize a clone who is identical to her father. But she does recognize Rain, a practical stranger to her, whom she had briefly met hours before.
3. As opposed to the beginning, when Becky is able to understand and obey Alice's signs in a life and death situation, Becky proves unable to recognize danger and take cues from Alice, who is forced to almost constantly drag her to safety.
4. Alice explains to Becky about how she is a clone, that the real world is outside, etc., seemingly within a few minutes. Becky totally understands and accepts everything, and is excited to see the outside world…I doubt the author has ever tried to explain anything complicated to a seven year old, but the fact that there were no “whys” or “how’s” or any questions at all is just not realistic.
5. Alice starts shooting zombies, and Becky is like, “Cool! I want to learn how to do that!” And then not a minute later, she starts sobbing as Alice shoots more zombies.


American Sign Language (ASL)
The author could not have demonstrated more clearly that he knows absolutely nothing about ASL.

In the first place, he represents Alice as being fluent in ASL, which in the film (and in the book, for that matter) she so clearly is not. Her signs are awkward and jerky, and often incorrect.

There is no indication of ASL grammar (i.e., facial expressions) anywhere in the novel. In fact, Alice thinks that it is easier to lie when signing than voicing, which makes absolutely no sense. Why should lying be easier in a foreign language? I can't lie to save my life in Spanish or anything like that.

Even worse, Shirley doesn't seem to realize that many signs are contingent on two hands. Alice and Becky often sign one-handedly, with no issues. They could be fingerspelling a lot, but unlikely given the vocab and Becky being seven. Later, when Becky gets kidnapped by a Licker, Shirley has her shove one hand out of the cocoon to sign “trap,” which is a two-handed sign…(And also, this did not happen in the film!)

It doesn't make sense that Becky and Alice can see and understand each other's signing when they are in the dark. When deaf people are out taking a walk after dark, you'll might notice them stop under a street lamp or in front of a business to exchange a few signs before continuing. This is because we are not nocturnal and our eyes are adapted to daylight.

When Becky is shocked by a group of Alice clones, she speaks and signs at the same time (known as sim-comming, or contact signing), which is super unnatural. Shirley describes contact signing as “unconscious,” which it isn’t for a person who primarily signs voicelessly. This brings us to the fact that Becky signs to everyone even though she was supposedly trained orally. Alice interprets awkwardly. (Remember this for the discussion below on Umbrella training.)

Why would a born-deaf girl contact sign unconsciously? Using her voice is completely unnatural, which we know because even though she has been orally trained, she decides to sign only to strangers who most likely won't understand her. If contact signing is something Becky does unconsciously, why wouldn't she be doing that throughout the entire novel? Again, pointing to issues with consistency and lack of basic knowledge about deaf people.

A couple more points:
1. At one point, Alice is supposedly trying to stem the bleeding in her side (by pressing her hand against it), but no one notices any blood. Not even Becky, who would easily see her hand while Alice is signing. But no, not even a "Hey, what's that on your hand? Kool-Aid? Lol." Come on.
2. Towards the end, Alice suddenly starts contact signing to “encourage Becky to learn to read lips,” even though it’s already abundantly clear that Becky knows how to lipread. After all, isn't that how she was communicating with her non-signing father and grandmother since practically birth?

Alice's Umbrella training (supposedly) includes ASL:

To be fair on this one:
The beginning/zombie invasion part of the story was essentially an implanted memory in a clone, who was part of a simulation. If Alice signed ASL fluently, it was because those controlling the simulation made it so by downloading the knowledge into the Alice clone. It doesn’t answer for why they could see and understand each other even in chaotic or dark situations, though.

After the simulation, the real Alice runs across Becky, and “thanks to her training,” Alice understands the “hand signs” Becky uses. But no one else who was trained by Umbrella seems to understand ASL.

For example, clone Rain doesn’t understand signs. She wasn’t trained in guns, but when Alice hands her one, she can use it properly, indicating that there’s some kind of memory, so if she had received training in ASL, why wouldn't that have carried over, too?

I won't hold the Umbrella training idea against Shirley too much, since in the film Alice's signing is never explained at all. At least Shirley tried here.

Lastly, I want to point out a couple of audist/ableist ideologies that made it into the novel:

1. The Umbrella technicians are “sick bastards” for making Becky, a clone, deaf. This presupposes that the original Becky was not deaf, and that deafness is a terrible condition. It also suggests that if the original Becky was deaf, that the technicians should have cured her in utero or something, again reinforcing that deafness is a terrible condition. Neither of these viewpoints is good for positive and respectful deaf rep.

2. Alice considers that if the Undead thing hadn’t happened, Becky could have had her hearing "cured" with advancements in technology and become a pilot like she wants, as though deaf people can’t fly helicopters. She also considers that Becky having her hearing "cured" now would increase her chances of surviving.

Except for the fact that what Alice is thinking about is cochlear implants, which do not (and never have) cured anyone's hearing. Not to mention the devices have a 3-5% failure rate (higher than the 2-4.5% failure rate for heart valve replacement surgery). Not to mention the literal years it takes to learn how to hear through cochlear implants. And so on and so forth.

Moreover, if Becky was born without a cochlea, she would not qualify for a cochlear implant. There would be nowhere to implant the device! She could potentially qualify for an auditory brainstem implant, but that is even less successful than cochlear implants.

Shirley presents assistive hearing technology as a 100% cure, therefore perpetuating a harmful mythconception.

Overall, deaf rep is not good, and I struggled to get through this novelization. Somehow I find I prefer the crappy film!

[Josh · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was about how a woman named Alice is captured and put in a facility. She then gets free and tries to get out of the facility but has no idea where to go. Then an agent for umbrella is helping her out and there meeting up with an extraction team. The extraction team set charges for 2 hours. Alice and the umbrella agent named ada they had to go though different cities but they would go for a couple blocks before you reach a wall. Once they reached the extraction team they escaped and blew up the facility.

[Gwendolyn Newby · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a huge fan of the Resident Evil franchise I came across this book and although I have already seen all the movies (more than twice) I decided to read the novelization. If you can get passed the typos this is actually a good read and I'm not disappointed. The story line is slightly changed. But for someone who hasn't seen the movie they might be confused. I recommend watching the movie first.

[David Garrett jr · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is another pretty easy read. It does make the product better by giving us more insight than you’d get in a movie. I liked all the characters being there. The character descriptions and action feel like it’s coming straight from the screen. There’s an added subplot that doesn’t add much aside from padding. If you like the movie, this gives you more for sure.

[Amanda Bartoszek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Much better than its predecessors.

Having read the other RE books in the series, this one is so much better. With the change of author, all the things I hated in the other books have gone. The unnecessary swearing and use of offensive terms have gone, leaving behind just a well-written and enjoyable story. Much recommended.

[Mighty Reader · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very good zombie apocalypse surviving book

[Nina Gliza · Rating 4 out of 5]

✨4/5✨

I love the interconnection and the deeper dive into Alice's backstory, but I failed to see how some other highlighted characters had been relevant. Still a good ol' book to enjoy, though!

[Wally Tomlinson · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is better than the movie with more details.

[Martein Joaquim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Even as an acctress this Hollywood actress is the only woman who has a mega around Series by her own name

[nico · Rating 1 out of 5]

this. . . sucked

[OpenBookSociety.com · Rating 5 out of 5]

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Synopsis:

Resident Evil: Retribution will be released in 3D on September 14, 2012. It is the fifth installment in the massively successful Resident Evil film series, based on the hugely popular Capcom survival horror video game series Resident Evil. The movie stars Milla Jovovitch and Wentworth Miller and is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.

In this official novelization, Alice fights alongside a resistance movement in the continuing battle against the Umbrella Corporation and the undead. (Goodreads)

Review:

I have only seen the movies and have not seen the movie that this book represents, with that said I find this story to be an excellent addition to this series. I have been watching the movies since they came out and even though clearly it’s about zombies, it’s so much more than that. I have never seen or played the game. I loved how we get to see the softness in Alice and her wondering about maybe having a family and children or if she even could, that doesn’t come across very well in the movies. So that was a really nice new touch for me.

Now, a couple of sentences in the book sparked some incredible conversations. First, let me give some background. I used to be a Sign Language Interpreter, my son and his wife are both State Certified Interpreters and my youngest daughter who just graduated High School is going to college to be an Interpreter. My middle son is deaf. So our family knows about deafness and Sign Language. Here are the sentences that had not only us talking but others as well.

“It’s going to be okay,” Alice signed back. It was easier to lie when no one could hear your voice.”

I had a strong reaction to those sentence since Sign Language is not just your hands talking, there are other parameters of signing, body language and facial expressions etc… ,so I asked around. We discovered there was no yes or no depending on how it was looked at. What we did figure out was if you were a good liar, hearing or deaf then you would be able to pull it off. This would be an excellent research project in the real world, what are the tells of a deaf or signing person be, are they different than for hearing people who voice? It brought up so many questions. Thank you!

Back to the story, action packed as are all the movies. I think what really makes this book great was not only seeing inside Alice a bit more, but also, seeing Jill and how she catches glimpses of who she was. I would have liked to see more of what happens to Dori, Judy, Tom and the rest of the gang. Maybe in the next book. I enjoyed all the new creepy crawlies and flying monsters. The lickers were described wonderfully, yuck. The story line about the clones brought to mind, howthings could go really wrong and abusive. Of course, the book takes it to the max, but that makes a person think. How would we treat clones? Would we consider them expendable in the same ways at some point?

I was reading this story for fun and entertainment and it brought up such an interesting connection to real life for me had me giving it 5 stars, over all it’s a great story to the series. It’s action packed with great questions to ask ourselves throughout the story. Even if you don’t know the movies this book gives enough background to read alone. I highly recommend this book for young adults to anyone who enjoys the sci-fi/horror genres.

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[Jean-Francois Boivin · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first three movies were novelized by Keith R.A. DeCandido and published by Pocket Books. I really enjoyed those. When movie #4 came out, it didn't get a novelization. But then, Titan Books picked up the torch and published movie #5 in 2012 (and #6 in 2017).

This one is written by John Shirley, the writer of the awful Predator: Forever Midnight , which was not a novelization but based on a movie & comic book franchise and was not researched at all. From the opening chapters of Resident Evil: Retribution, I got the impression that the author wasn't familiar with the previous four movies from the little summaries he wrote of the previous events, and from the way he described the way Wesker died in Afterlife. But he does a decent job, and I actually liked when mid-way through the book, a side-story with new characters is introduced, and it parallels the main story with Alice right until the end.

That story could be extracted and read as a separate short story based in the Resident Evil movie universe. It's about one of the clone girls, one of the technician women and one of the mechanics escaping aboard one of the Umbrella Corp submarines as the main Umbrella underwater is destroyed and flooded (in the wake of Alice and her friends passing through). The trio then meet up with another cast of survivor characters on Catalina island and it ends in friendship and potential love. This side story creates a nice contrast of hope and humanity to the bleak, end-of-the-world scenario of the main story in the movie. I recommend the book if only for that part.

[Hijab Zainab · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome loving it epic I loved it alot

[Dylan Ormesher · Rating 3 out of 5]

Resident Evil Retribution novelization this is as great book and makes for an excellent read for any fan of Resident Evil.
This novel not only has all the great moments from the movie in it it is told alot better and alot more fleshed out than the movie.

This novel adds a story that was not in the film about two characters called Dori and JudyTech escaping from Umbrella I found this really interesting and really enjoyed following there characters and it added something different to this franchise that the movies never did.

Alice is still great in this story like always and you get more of her relationship with Becky and you feel for her more in the novel with it explaining how she feels about everything she has been through over the years.

I do think the novel goes on for a bit to long in my opinion they add a flashback story just stretch the book out and the flashback story is really awkward involving Alice in a scene where she is forced to make a guy happy for Umbrella it was an awkward scene and didn't need to be the book just unexpected for Resident Evil and just wasn't needed in my opinion.

Verdict ⭐⭐⭐ really good read and adds alot more the movie just had some awkward moments that where unexpected for a Resident Evil Fan.

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the Resident Evil Fans and so far the tie-in novelisation's, but have not played the video games.
Now I really liked this film and actually watched it a couple of weeks before I read the book for Halloween so it was fresh in my head; and the full complete movie was there in the book! However, what I did not like was the unnecessary additional extras. There was a whole sub-plot of Dori/JudyTech that was not even in the film plus other items. Now for me, I expect a tie-in novel to be exactly that, the film, no elaborations or embellishments required - just the movie, I mean I got it because I like the film - most people do - doesn't that tell you something. Now I can appreciate that sometimes they may get a draft of the script before it comes out and some stuff might be added removed in the final cut, but in this case at the front of the book the author admitted to adding stuff that was not in the film - so straight away that annoyed me. Now I might have only taken off one star for this, but the extras weren't even that good! So even though I liked the film and it was included I have knocked off two stars for at least 50 to 100 ages of unnecessary extras.

[David Griffith · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm not going to get in depth but this book has typos, continuity errors and a completely useless and un related sub plot about a clone. It tries to give back story on Alice to characterize her that is forced and flat. The fight scenes are way drawn out, but this is the novelization of an action movie after all.
I loved this movies and you're better off watching that.
If you want to read Resident Evil, read the novel for Extinction, it was epic!

Update 2022: I reread the book and it’s almost enjoyable if you skip the disconnected subplot sections. They are there to meet a page count and that’s it. Anytime it mentions a character named Judy or Dory, I recommend skimming ahead until you see a section start with Alice or one of the characters from the games. Trust me you’ll have a much better time.

[Sammie · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was ok ,i was hopeing it was gonna be better then it was ,I think the movie was more face paced and more enjoyable then the book .

This was alot of stuff that was added and it didn't really need to be , i didn't like the fact they he took one of the fight scenes outta the book , the one with the 2 Executioners that attack Ada and Alice , that was disappointing , i just thought it was gonna really good but it was only so-so , i would say watch the movie insted of reading the book .

[David Marshall · Rating 1 out of 5]

If you're a fan of Resident Evil and know what's going on, this will no doubt be enjoyable. If like me you have no idea what's going on, this makes no effort to tell you and you will waste your time trying to make sense of it.

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[Amber · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very disappointed, so many contradictory lines in the book, I actually re-read parts to make sure I read parts correctly. I don't like that's whole parts of the movie are missing and new characters/scenes are added. I'm a avid resident evil fan and this was a let down

[Jackie · Rating 5 out of 5]

If this story translated as well onto the big screen WOW, once out on DVD it is mine!

[Jeremiah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just as awesome as the film itself! I absolutely LOVED that they incorporated the film script verbatim in the novel adaptation!

[Gabriel Mero · Rating 5 out of 5]

Alice is back and she's kicking ass and taking names. This one was awesome! Now I can't wait to see the movie!!! Unfortunately, I'm going to have to wait for the DVD. :(

[Jina · Rating 2 out of 5]

This writer wasn't as good as the guy who wrote the first two books.