Bingo Square (Round 2): And So It Begins I am not sure why I keep trying adaptations of Alice in Wonderland. I didn’t have enough of a connection to the original story or movie as a child to get all the references. It was the one Disney movie that scared the hell out of me as a child, and which I refused to re-watch (or my parents never showed again, not wanting to deal with the aftermath). I was less than enthralled with Splintered (though I […]
“She must start believing in impossible things, for impossible things kept appearing before her eyes.”
This is not the Wonderland you know. This place is darker. Not much Wonder at all, in fact. It is full of dirt and blood and death. And insanity. Henry does a very good job of letting you know that all is not right in Alice’s mind. The characters from the childhood tale are all here, but they are twisted. Alice begins in a hospital in the Old City. Unlike the New City, where everything is bright and clean and wonderful, the Old […]
All about Bunny Ears
This is book eight in the Alice in Deadland series. It’s all about everyone’s favorite (including mine) character, Bunny Ears. He remembered his name (Neil) at the end of the Crocodile book, and now he wants to figure out more about himself. This book is a little different than the rest, because Alice isn’t the main character. Almost all of the previous books (except the one with the four short backstories – book two or three, I can’t remember) are told from Alice’s point of […]
More of that other Alice in Wonderland series I was reading… yeah I forgot about it too!
Ok so Phantoms of the North is book 6 in the Alice in Deadland series. I put these two books together, because they’re short, and their stories are quite similar. In Phantoms, everyone is safe and happy in Wonderland. The Homeland (the USA) is sending over people and equipment to start large scale farming operations. Things are going well. And then Alice and one of her buddies finds a man while they’re out on patrol. He’s beaten up and scared, and he tells them that […]
Go ask Alice, I think she’ll know…When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead
Okee dokee. I feel like this keeps happening to me. I thought this was the last book in the series, so I just kept reading from book one to book seven. I got to the end and was like “um, what?”. There are apparently at LEAST two books left. That is not really a problem, but I wouldn’t have just kept mowing through the series if I knew it wasn’t finished! Anyway, this book is called Family. Logically, I thought we’d learn more about Alice’s […]
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low…Go ask Alice, I think she’ll know
Ok so this is allegedly the penultimate book in the Insanity series. I just downloaded book seven, because book six leaves you hanging a little bit. According to the author, it’s the only book without a prologue (or two). The premise of this book is basically a worldwide chess game, and eventually a bunch of other chess games and chess related shenanigans. The Chessmaster challenges the leaders of the world to chess matches. It’s allegedly for charity or something? He tricks them though, because he […]