It started with my breath thinning, then gasping and struggling for air. From the first page I was intrigued, horrified, drowned into this sick journey of theirs. ► Moreover, as long as it took for me to simply understand what was going on, it didn’t influence my interest, not at any moment. I love this kind of retellings with passion, and despite the horror, I couldn’t help but be mesmerized at all the magical and strange creatures we meet. Christina Henry sure pictured the characters we know in the most terrifying light. To be honest, I always thought that Alice in Wonderland was weird as fuck and developed in an undercurrent of crazy violence, and here? Well. Who are these people? What do they want? What are their relationships like? Where the fuck are they? What’s this world, where human traffic, rape and violence are common practices, where the awful way women are treated makes me want to scream? ► By no means is Alice a flawless book, and I’m not gonna lie, the first chapters, if they hooked me, confused me as hell in the same time. TRIGGER WARNING : Graphic rape (a lot) and violence Something powerful.Īnd to find the truth, she will have to track this beast to the very heart of the Old City, where the rabbit waits for his Alice.īring it, Alice! I’m not scared. Only something else has escaped with her. Then, one night, a fire at the hospital gives the woman a chance to escape, tumbling out of the hole that imprisoned her, leaving her free to uncover the truth about what happened to her all those years ago. Just a tea party long ago, and long ears, and blood… She doesn’t remember why she’s in such a terrible place. Her hair, once blond, hangs in tangles down her back. In a warren of crumbling buildings and desperate people called the Old City, there stands a hospital with cinderblock walls which echo the screams of the poor souls inside. A mind-bending new novel inspired by the twisted and wondrous works of Lewis Carroll.

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