Hey guys! So....this is one of those series where I've read some books a long time ago...and didn't review them....so um...bear with me as I try to write a short and simple review of a book I've read more than four years ago.
Showing posts with label retellings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label retellings. Show all posts
Monday, December 19, 2016
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Review: Splintered by A.G. Howard
Read: Feb. 3-March. 3, 2016
Rating: 3 of 5 stars
Pages: 371
Genres: Fantasy, romance, retellings
Blurb from Goodreads:
"This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of a mystical under-land, as well as a girl’s pangs of first love and independence.
Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. For now.
When her mother’s mental health takes a turn for the worse, Alyssa learns that what she thought was fiction is based in terrifying reality. The real Wonderland is a place far darker and more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever let on. There, Alyssa must pass a series of tests, including draining an ocean of Alice’s tears, waking the slumbering tea party, and subduing a vicious bandersnatch, to fix Alice’s mistakes and save her family. She must also decide whom to trust: Jeb, her gorgeous best friend and secret crush, or the sexy but suspicious Morpheus, her guide through Wonderland, who may have dark motives of his own."
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