Friday, May 4, 2018

The Looking Glass Wars (The Looking Glass Wars #1) by Frank Beddor

🌟🌟🌟🌟 out of 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Yet another version of Alice in Wonderland that I have fallen in love with...Why can't someone besides Marissa Meyer do this with Cinderella and other fairy tale stories?

Synopsis:
Alyss of Wonderland?When Alyss Heart, newly orphaned heir to the Wonderland throne, flees through the Pool of Tears to escape her murderous Aunt Redd, she finds herself lost and alone in Victorian London. Befriended by an aspiring author named Lewis Carrol, Alyss tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life. Alyss trusts this author to tell the truth so that someone, somewhere will find her and bring her home. But he gets the story all wrong. He even spells her name incorrectly!

Fortunately, Royal Bodyguard Hatter Madigan knows all too well the awful truth of Alyss' story - and he's searching every corner of our world to find the lost princess and return her to Wonderland, to battle Redd for her rightful place as the Queen of Hearts.

The Looking Glass Wars unabashedly challenges our Wonderland assumptions of mad tea parties, grinning Cheshire cats, and a curious little blond girl to reveal an epic battle in the endless war for Imagination.
 

It's funny...I think that I have a thing for Alice in Wonderland. I keep finding and reading books based off of the original books but with a twist that makes them different. I find it even more hilarious that I have yet to read the original books that started it all. Anyway, I just finished reading the The Looking Glass Wars which is the first in a trilogy by Frank Beddor. The books focus on the story of Alyss Hart who journeys through the pool of tears after her Aunt Redd stages a coup to take back control of Wonderland by murdering anyone that stands in her way. 

I enjoyed Frank Beddor's take on Alyss, Wonderland, and all of the other characters I have come to love and appreciate through all the versions I have read. It was interesting to see these characters interact and change within the setting that the author placed them. The Looking Glass Wars was a much darker version of Alice in Wonderland which is probably because there is a war happening between white imagination users and black imagination users or Redd vs. Alyss. So, if you picture the characters as generals, bodyguards, and assassins then you have a pretty good idea of how they are changed in this book. I loved Alyss as a character though I found her to be whiny in the beginning. The portion of the book when she was not in Wonderland was a bit slow which made for a slower pace to the book. However, the pace was helped along by the characters that remained in Wondreland and were fighting the good fight. There were fight scenes mainly during the beginning and ending of the book with a smattering a different points with action throughout. 

I think that my main problem with the story besides the slower pacing to it was the fact that Alyss becomes a warrior very quickly despite the rough beginning as well as having assimilated to the world of London in the 1800s. I found it very convenient that she was able to progress in her imaginative powers so quickly after not using them for so long. 







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