Firstly you have the New City where the rich and affluent live, this is where Alice is originally from but it’s only mentioned in passing and in flashes and memories of her childhood. The setting has changed from the fantasy style trappings of the original Wonderland into a City that’s split into two halves. Thus what follows is Alice and Hatcher attempting to stop the Jabberwock while confronting traumatic memories and monsters from their own past. There’s alot to like in the book, foremost it’s a creative revist that takes the original source material and gives you a unique sinister reimagining, changing what is a classic colourful children’s fairytale and transforming it into a bleak and dark horror story.Īfter the events of the infamous tea party, Alice has spent the last ten years in a mental asylum, her only friend being Hatcher who she talks to through a mouse-hole until one night when a fire breaks out and they both escape unfortunately the malevolent evil presence of the Jabberwock is also freed and let loose on Old City. I received a free copy of this book courtesy of the publisher in exchange for an honest review. 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