The Chronicles of Alice
Fiction
Penguin
July 12, 2016
Paperback
304
The author of Alice takes readers back down the rabbit hole to a dark, twisted, and fascinating world based on the works of Lewis Carroll... The land outside of the Old City was supposed to be green, lush, hopeful. A place where Alice could finally rest, no longer the plaything of the Rabbit, the pawn of Cheshire, or the prey of the Jabberwocky. But the verdant fields are nothing but ash--and hope is nowhere to be found. Still, Alice and Hatcher are on a mission to find his daughter, a quest they will not forsake even as it takes them deep into the clutches of the mad White Queen and her goblin or into the realm of the twisted and cruel Black King. The pieces are set and the game has already begun. Each move brings Alice closer to her destiny. But, to win, she will need to harness her newfound abilities and ally herself with someone even more powerful--the mysterious and vengeful Red Queen...
WrensReads Review:
I honestly don’t know what to say about this book.
The writing was really well done just like Alice. The two main characters, Alice and Hatcher, were pretty much the same as they were in Alice.
But the story itself was vastly different.
I just didn’t get the gory, haunting feeling I got from the first book. Why didn’t my skin crawl as much as their adventure in The City? Wasn’t the Forest/Village/Queen’s Castle suppose to be an upgrade from the last book via creepy? Because I felt a downgrade.
I actually had to push myself to finish this book. I hate saying that. I really wanted to love it. Because I swore, and still do, by Alice (the first book).
Hatcher was like gone most of the book. Alice was ..weird. And not in the way that she was in the first book. She was basically singing the High School Musical song “We’re All In This Together” to everyone around her. She doesn’t know how to use her magic but she ends up using it better than anyone else who has been using it for hundreds of years?
I also wanted like a big epic thing with the queens. The Red Queen whole thing (if you read the book you’d know what I am talking about) was weird. I wasn’t very completed with it.
I wish the goblin had more of a story. And the giants. The town that they run into in the beginning of the book was LEGIT. But it only lasted like ten pages..
I guess I just really expected a lot from this book and when it wasn’t as beautifully haunting as the first book, I just couldn’t anymore. I’m really deeply sad about this. I was so pumped. I literally counted the days down until this book was at my doorstep.
I’m just… I can’t… I… ugh.
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