Indeed, it doesn’t take long at all once you begin reading these pages to understand just how dark and twisted the mind of this author likes to be. But here I am getting ahead of myself a bit.ĪLICE ( Amazon) is the first in the Chronicles of Alice series and a great place to get to know the author’s works. There’s enough of both the familiar and the new that they end up being really great reads. One of the great things about storytelling though is that even if the ideas and plots are pillars of stability in our minds, a new tale can still be just as invigorating and fun to read as if everything were brand new. There have been enough versions of both these tales told that it might seem as if we really don’t need another. That first one was a brilliant take on the simple tale of Red Riding Hood, and I was hoping to find more of the same in this one, which is obviously pointed at the classic tale Alice in Wonderland. Agent: Lucienne Diver, Knight Agency.After reading Christina Henry’s THE GIRL IN RED ( EBR Review), I couldn’t wait to find out what other tales she’d been telling that I didn’t yet know about. The darkness in this book is that of fairy tales, owing more to Grimm's matter-of-fact violence than to the underworld of the first book forest-dwelling giants, magic cottages with perpetually burning fires, and magical sacrifices to sustain immortality take the place of sex trafficking and rampant murder. Alice's ongoing struggle is to distinguish reality from illusion, and Henry excels in mingling the two for the reader as well as her characters. When Alice and Hatcher are separated, Alice must rediscover her own identity among the choices and challenges that face her and the past that continually tries to draw her back into madness. Their dangerous journey takes them through the exposed wastes of the Black King, and into the magic forest of the White Queen, where breaking the rules means death but the rules are always unknown. Henry's sequel to Alice, a retelling of Through the Looking Glass, leaves the City behind as Alice and her companion, Hatcher, begin a quest to find Hatcher's daughter, Jenny.
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