Series: The Looking Glass Wars #1
Publication date: September
26, 2006
Publisher: Dial Books
ISBN-13: 9780803731530
Synopsis
Lewis
Carrol not only lied to us but he lied to a little girl too, he said he would
write Alyss Heart’s story but he took liberties with it, completing the scam
with the misspelling of her name.
Lost in
a world that is not her own little Alyss only knows two things for sure, first,
she is on the run from Redd and second she must learn to live and blend in the
new world she has been transported to by the pool of tears.
And let
me tell you Victorian London can be a strange and weird place for anyone coming
from Wonderland, especially when everyone keeps telling you that you imagined
it all.
Review
This
book made me feel like a little girl again, when you ask for a little more and
your imagination goes on overdrive painting the world the words in the book
keep coming your way.
The world that Frank Beddor created with Alice in Wonderland was revolutionary, he really made it his own, specially by
giving us a reason to forget about the original and to let our minds dive into
what he has to say.
The
thing that attracted me from this book was “Princess Alyss of Wonderland” a
side book that is a scrapbook of sorts that digs more into the life of Alyss as
she arrives to the obscure and unknown streets of London, as soon as I started
reading that small book I knew I would end up reading The Looking Glass Wars.
In The
Looking Glass Wars we watch Alyss grow and jump worlds and both her and the
reader experience the changes that have happened to Wonderland while Alyss was
away and the decisions she would have to make in case she wishes to restore
peace to the land that should have watched her grow.
I know
this book was in the list of steampunk for kids but honestly this book goes
beyond ages, this is the type of book that makes you want to dig deeper into
the world, you would want to fill the holes that are left in this book and
fortunately Frank Beddor does help you fill up the blanks.
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