![]() In hospital she befriends Kat, the embodiment of your typical tough and sarcastic best friend with a marshmallow centre in a teen novel. ![]() ![]() If you’re looking for the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts, you’ll be sorely disappointed.Īlice Bell’s life changes the night she loses her family to a car accident in which she also witnesses her father being devoured by monsters. I wouldn’t have cared if the title were a tongue-in-cheek reference to Carroll’s Alice and that was it, but the entire book seems geared towards exploiting this link: the title, the cover image, the tagline ‘Off with their heads!’, and the series name, The White Rabbit Chronicles. But I wanted to give the book a fair go, because look at that cover and think of the possibilities of a zombiefied version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.īut any link to Lewis Carroll’s original text is tenuous at best. ![]() ![]() In hindsight, when the the book’s introduction, ‘A Note From Alice’, failed to stir any reaction from me other than, Seriously?, I should have left it at that. The best I can say about this book is that I was compelled to skim it to the end. ![]()
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