So the story revolves around Alice (obviously) and Hatcher who reside in an asylum together in the New City. I have only seen movies based on the adventures of Alice and I wasn’t lost for a second, so if you’re worried that you haven’t read the original book, don’t be. Even the mildest of fans will love how Christina Henry tied the many familiar faces into her story. This is a very dark retelling of “Alice in Wonderland” but it’s also an extremely entertaining one.

Honestly this whole review will be me gushing over how great of a read this was because I don’t have a single bad thing to say about it. It gets pretty hard to swallow so if you’re strongly against reading about any of those things I would skip this book. If I could rate it and give it a thousand starts I would do it in a heartbeat, that’s how amazing it was.Īlthough I will say it’s not a book for the faint of heart, there is much disturbing content such as torture and rape and overall violence. This is one hell of a book and it’s nothing like anything I’ve ever read before. “Beware the jaws that bite, the claws that snatch….” 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.

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.

Alice by christina henry