Review: Curiouser and Curiouser
Curiouser and Curiouser by Melanie KarsakMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
3.25 stars
This was a steampunk retelling of Alice in Wonderland in which Alice Lewis, a bit of a Mary Sue "guttersnipe," is drawn back from a life she had hoped she had left behind. The story starts out smashingly, with the good-hearted Alice, aka "The Bandersnatch" rescuing her sister Bess's beloved Hatter from a horrible fate due to unpaid gambling debts by agreeing to use her skill set to commit an audacious crime. The characters redrawn from Carroll's Alice were interesting but the romance angle got a bit repetitive for my taste. An amusing read for the most part, but possibly not enough to satisfy serious Wonderland fans.
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Ohhh, that sounds so disappointing!
ReplyDeleteIt’s still enjoyable in some respects. But the romance dialogue was just soooo draggingly repetitive to me.
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