Lost and alone in Victorian London, Alyss is befriended by an aspiring author to whom she tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life. But in the pool Alyss and Hatter are separated. To escape Redd, Alyss and her bodyguard, Hatter Madigan, must flee to our world through the Pool of Tears. The Myth: Alice was an ordinary girl who stepped through the looking glass and entered a fairy-tale world invented by Lewis Carroll in his famous storybook.Īlyss Heart is the heir to the throne, until her murderous aunt Redd steals the crown and kills Alyss’s parents. Yes, it is not the usual little girl falls down the rabbit hole story that we love, but it is a major and wonderful piece of work a true testament to Carroll’s work, in any epic fantasy loving person’s cup of tea. If you loved it as much as I did, then you definitely want to read Frank Beddor’s work on Wonderland. I am sure, that most of you watched the 2010, epic with Johnny Depp and Anne Hathaway, Alice in Wonderland. Frank Beddor took Lewis Carroll’s children’s tale and spun it into an epic story that goes beyond all our wildest dreams.

But the day I found Frank Beddor’s tale on the bookshelf of my local book shop, I just had to take it and boy, was I amazed. I did look for a hole to fall under once just to ensure that I had the little girl’s adventures. Lewis Carroll’s tale was a vast and imaginative take on falling down a hole. black imagination, the Mad Hatter, the Cat, the wise caterpillars all of it has always intrigued me. The world of Alice in Wonderland has always interested me the card soldiers, the spirit danes, the Red Queen with her standard, ‘OFF WITH THEIR HEADS,’ statement, white imagination vs. A few weeks ago, I picked up my paperback copy of Alice in Wonderland and smiled, but then I saw another version of this tale that I have read countless times before.

The looking glass wars series