Book: Alice Takes Back Wonderland

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Alice Takes Back Wonderland
David D. Hammons
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After ten years of being told she can’t tell the difference between real life and a fairy tale, Alice finally stops believing in Wonderland. So when the White Rabbit shows up at her house, Alice thinks she’s going crazy. Only when the White Rabbit kicks her down the rabbit hole does Alice realize that the magical land she visited as a child is real. But all is not well in Wonderland.

The Ace of Spades has taken over Wonderland and is systematically dismantling all that makes it wonderful. Plain is replacing wondrous, logical is replacing magical, and reason is destroying madness. Alice decides she must help the Mad Hatter and all those fighting to keep Wonderland wonderful. But how can she face such danger when she is just a girl?

Alice must journey across the stars to unite an army. She discovers that fairy tales are real in the magical world beyond the rabbit hole. But they are not the fairy tales she knows. Fairy tales have dangers and adventures of their own, and Alice must overcome the trials of these old stories if she wants to unite the lands against Ace.

With the help of Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Snow White and heroes old and new, Alice may have the strength to take back Wonderland.


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I was slightly sceptical of this due to some of the existing reviews, but now coming to think of it, I think I quite liked this.

This book made use of various fairy tale characters and settings as we know them AND as we don't know them. It was really interesting to see such a twist.

Probably the down side is it was rather stagnant in the first part of the book. Once Alice cleared Peter Pan and Pinocchio, things got rolling and turned fast pace.

The ending was somewhat surprising but I can take a surprise here and there once in a while.

If you like fairy tales and don't mind seeing them taken out of context to become something else, do give this book a try.