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Every time I read the title of this book, I read it to the tune of “Helpless” from Hamilton

Heartless by Marissa Meyer

October 10, 2020 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

This is a story of Wonderland before it became the broken thing that Alice encounters in the book.  Residents are more or less happy and good natured.  They don’t stay that way, however.  Wonderland is a world of cards, and there are many fun and innocent games you can play with cards.  But there’s another land through the Looking Glass, the land of Chess.  And Chess is a battlefield.  Some things from Chess have come to Wonderland, and they will never be the same.   […]

Filed Under: Fanfiction, Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: cbr12, cbr12bingo, fanfiction, Marissa Meyer, Wonderland

crystalclear's CBR12 Review No:21 · Genres: Fanfiction, Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: cbr12, cbr12bingo, fanfiction, Marissa Meyer, Wonderland ·
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And call Alice, when she was just small…when the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go

April 14, 2017 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Alice, Cameron Jace, Wonderland

kfishgirl's CBR9 Review No:18 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Alice, Cameron Jace, Wonderland ·
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Another Alice story…

January 21, 2017 by kfishgirl 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Alice, Cameron Jace, madness, Wonderland

kfishgirl's CBR9 Review No:5 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Alice, Cameron Jace, madness, Wonderland ·
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This book had purple font!!!!

May 26, 2016 by Andrea Krieter Leave a Comment

Rating: 4.0/5 Summary: Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of plants and insects and in order to shut them up, she makes collages of them. She also fears that she is going insane, since all her female relatives have been committed to asylums. When her father is going to take excessive measures to treat her mother, Alyssa makes her own decision to find wonderland. However, when she ends up there, with childhood friend jeb, it is not at all what it seems to be. I liked […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: Cover lust, Cute, retelling, Wonderland, YA

Andrea Krieter's CBR8 Review No:15 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance · Tags: Cover lust, Cute, retelling, Wonderland, YA ·
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The Woman Upstairs. You wouldn’t like her when she’s angry.

January 7, 2014 by ElCicco

This novel appeared on several 2013 “best novels” lists and it seems to fit into a genre that’s very popular these days, featuring a narrator whose truthfulness and mental well being are unclear. As I read, I was reminded of novels like The Other Typist and The Dinner, but The Woman Upstairs carves out its own place. The narrator comes across as abrasive yet sympathetic, a flawed human deserving compassion and yet somewhat self-involved, too. This contradiction compelled me to stay with the story and find out […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Alice Neel, anger, art, Claire Messud, Edie Sedgwick, ElCicco, Emily Dickinson, The Dinner, The Other Typist, The Woman Upstairs, Wonderland

ElCicco's CBR6 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Alice Neel, anger, art, Claire Messud, Edie Sedgwick, ElCicco, Emily Dickinson, The Dinner, The Other Typist, The Woman Upstairs, Wonderland ·
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