Alice
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4.3 • 139 Ratings
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Publisher Description
From the national bestselling author of Ghost Tree comes a mind-bending novel inspired by the twisted and wondrous works of Lewis Carroll...
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.
In the hospital, 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, tumbling out of the hole that imprisoned her, leaving her free to uncover the truth about what happened to her all those years ago.
Only something else has escaped with her. Something dark. Something powerful. And 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.
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
Very Good Read-NOT for kids OR teens
I actually loved this book. Each character was very intriguing and left me wanting to know more about them.
This book is NOT for children and has a lot of sexual abuse in it.
However, it was a very good book.
I feel the ending [even though it was good] could have been a little "more" than it was.
Loved it
I definitely could read this again.
Love a great story you can’t put down?
Absolutely love this author and her books... I haven’t done a written review yet but felt compelled to give my two cents... especially after power reading everything except The Mermaid which I have just begun.
The storytelling and unique perspectives the author imparts to these childhood favorites kept me wanting more, more, more! Read these books for a great escape from the mundane :)