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.