I feel like I start every Insanity book with “I have no idea what’s happening”, or something along those lines. It’s just true for every one of them. Alice travels backwards and forwards in time. She’s trying to prevent the main thing that started all of this madness – the bus accident. The beginning of book 1 talks about Alice going to the Radcliffe Asylum because she crashed a bus and killed all of her classmates (including her boyfriend). Alice travels forward in time to […]
“Alice remembered who she was before. She just couldn’t recall what had happened to that girl to make her this girl.”
(Trigger warning for all sorts of extreme violence.) Violent and disturbing but strangely compelling and beautiful in its own twisted way. If you are looking for a dark retelling of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, this book is for you. It should not have been an easy read but for reasons that I don’t completely understand, I found it oddly calming. I have been very anxious and stressed out recently and this book is so dark and violent that it allowed me to completely forget about […]
Tell ’em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call
Ok so this is book 4, and I’m still super confused. Alice and the Pillar are working together again to save the world. But the Pillar (the hookah smoking caterpillar / insane serial killer) has ulterior motives. I really have no idea what they are. Even when it seems like he’s screwing over Alice, he’s usually saving her. He’s not a good guy, but he doesn’t really seem to be a bad guy either? I don’t know. Anyway, there’s a plague sweeping the world. Everyone […]
Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet tall. And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know you’re going to fall…
OK so this was another weird one. Kids around England have their heads chopped off and stuffed into watermelons. The Muffin Man turns out to be the killer, and he’s got some kind of social commentary about fat, sugar, and salt? The question mark denotes my confusion. There are puzzles to solve, but I (and Alice) don’t know what’s real, and what’s imagined. At some points Alice wakes up crippled in the asylum, but neither of us know if that’s her reality, or if the […]
Another Alice story…
I’m not really sure where to begin with this book. It’s super weird, but kinda fun at the same time. I’m nearly positive I liked it! It was a quick read too. There’s a while bunch of other books in the series, so I’m definitely continuing on with Alice’s tales. So I’ll just start where the book starts. There’s a murder of a girl at Oxford University, and it looks like the Cheshire Cat did it. Like this guy: From Alice in Wonderland. Except in […]
