50 by 2013, #7
Mar. 12th, 2012 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indiana_j#7, Seeing Redd (The Looking Glass Wars) by Frank Beddor
Alyss of Wonderland's rules has only just begun and already those who prefer chaos to peace are threatening to destroy everything worth imagining. Trailed by newly appointed Royal Bodyguard Homburg Molly, Alyss is doing her best to keep pace with the non-stop demands of being Queen while attempting to evade Molly for a few private moments with Dodge. Alyss's life is already a challenging mix of duty, love and imagining when a series of phantom sightings set fire to an urban myth of her imperial viciousness's return and have everyone...Seeing Redd.
I'm a complete sucker for retold stories, like fairy tales, but I love when Alice in Wonderland gets a retelling (Syfy might not do well on most things but I really liked Tin Man and Alice). This is the second book in The Looking Glass Wars and it really wasn't as good (which wasn't great to begin with) as the first one. It's not bad, I just found that I didn't care for anyone in the book - the first at least focused a lot on Alyss and on Hatter but this one just seemed really disconnected.
I'll read the third one just to finish up the series but I'm not as gung-ho about it as I once was.
Alyss of Wonderland's rules has only just begun and already those who prefer chaos to peace are threatening to destroy everything worth imagining. Trailed by newly appointed Royal Bodyguard Homburg Molly, Alyss is doing her best to keep pace with the non-stop demands of being Queen while attempting to evade Molly for a few private moments with Dodge. Alyss's life is already a challenging mix of duty, love and imagining when a series of phantom sightings set fire to an urban myth of her imperial viciousness's return and have everyone...Seeing Redd.
I'm a complete sucker for retold stories, like fairy tales, but I love when Alice in Wonderland gets a retelling (Syfy might not do well on most things but I really liked Tin Man and Alice). This is the second book in The Looking Glass Wars and it really wasn't as good (which wasn't great to begin with) as the first one. It's not bad, I just found that I didn't care for anyone in the book - the first at least focused a lot on Alyss and on Hatter but this one just seemed really disconnected.
I'll read the third one just to finish up the series but I'm not as gung-ho about it as I once was.