Christina Henry Chronicles of Alice 5 Books Collection Set - Lost Boy, Red Queen, The Mermaid, Alice, Girl in Red

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The way he said it was like he was talking to a child that needed to be reminded of her manners. Elizabeth had never heard Papa talk to Mama this way before. And in truth, she had nearly forgotten the Incident at Breakfast until later, when she climbed the stairs to get a book and heard Mama making muffled noises in her bedroom. Elizabeth had put her ear close to the keyhole and listened. Not Alice,” Papa hissed through his teeth, and his voice was so harsh it made Elizabeth jump in her seat. “Elizabeth.”

This is one of the best, darkest and most disturbing retellings I have ever read. The author gets extremely creative with this world, weaving in characters we recognize from the original Alice in Wonderland but telling a very different kind of story. If you like your retellings to stay close to the original, then don't waste your time with Alice - it is very different. Why are you always Brom Bones?” Sander asked, scrunching up his face. “I’m always the one getting chased up a tree or having ale dumped on my head.” He placed the jam pot near Elizabeth’s teacup and went to stand against the wall behind Papa. Elizabeth watched him, frowning. The main topic of this book is love. I've noticed some people were not happy about it, saying that this book was centered of Alice's and Hatcher's romance. But Alice was on her own for the most of the book, and, well, you can't have romance with yourself (unless you are a princess from Madly). So to speak, this book is centered on the topic of love in a wider sense: love for siblings, your friends, lovers and such. Romantic love was also the topic, and frankly, I always liked Alice and Hatcher together as they make a rather strange couple, and their love in its madness has some charm. But it was not the center of the story.The follow up from Alice is the Red Queen, which takes Alice out of the confines of the mental hospital and the Old City to pastures new, but this may not be as wondrous as she may have initially predicted. Alice finds herself confronted with the Red Queen and it is anyone’s guess as to whether they will be in conflict or join forces to create a spectacular twosome! It’s a good deal more likely than the mythical Headless Horseman.” Brom didn’t believe in a lot of the things people in the Hollow believed in. It wasn’t the first time I’d heard him refer to someone else’s ideas as nonsense. Miranda shook her hair, an elaborately teased and sprayed mass that had been wrestled into a high ponytail. “We’re not playing in the woods. What are we, nine? We’re going to the Dream Machine.”

If I hear one word accusing the natives of this murder I’ll know who started the rumor,” Brom said, stepping closer to Smit. “Just remember that.”Sander obviously hadn’t heard them yet, for he was still galloping toward me, waving his arms before him and making his bad pig noises. Alice again, Elizabeth thought. This time she was not curious about the name so much as annoyed. Who was this Alice to steal Elizabeth’s thunder? Where were her “oohs” and “aahs”? She was also an only child, which meant her parents didn’t have to worry about having money for the next kid’s stuff. Lauren had heard her mother sighing many times that the trouble with having a girl and then a boy was that you couldn’t reuse anything.