Alice
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4.3 • 24 Ratings
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- £7.99
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
In a warren of crumbling buildings called the Old City, a hospital echoes with the screams of the poor souls inside. Inside, there is a woman. Her hair, once blond, hangs in tangles down her back. She doesn't remember why she's in such a terrible place. Just a tea party long ago, and long ears, and blood…Then, one night, a fire at the hospital gives the woman a chance to escape, leaving her free to uncover the truth about what happened to her all those years ago.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this remix of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Henry (the Black Wings novels) comes closer to Alan Moore's Lost Girls than to Disney in content, though her work lacking his originality and depth. When Alice was 16, she went to a party in a slum in the Old City, from which she returned raped, scarred, and babbling about someone called the Rabbit. This got her locked away in an insane asylum in an unnamed city that resembles Victorian London. Her only friend is the axe murderer in the adjoining cell, whose exploits have earned him the nickname the Hatcher. He knows that the asylum's basement is the prison of a force of dark magic called the Jabberwock. When fire destroys the building, Alice and Hatcher must traverse the Old City and force its peculiar denizens to help stop the Jabberwock, while the Rabbit haunts Alice's memories. Henry's world is rife with sexual violence and brutality, and her characters have all been seen before many, many times. The tremulous sweetness of the relationship between Alice and Hatcher is the book's high point, but among so much grime it hardly has a chance to shine.
Customer Reviews
Alice
I was hooked after one chapter
Awesome
I saw this in a book shop and I read a bit, could not put it down, so naturally I got myself this awesome read.
Dark and full of mystery, Christina Henry, has written an awesome book where you are teleported into the world of 'Alice' but not as we know it. The wonderland part is all messed up and is now a fight for survival.
I can gladly say I'm happy that I bought this book, something I would and will read again.
Brilliant, thank you Christina Henry.