Looking Glass Wars

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The "true story" behind Alice in Wonderland! Princess Alyss Heart is brutally cast out of Wonderland by her vicious Aunt Redd, who beheads Alyss' mother (Off with her head, she cries!) and begins to rule over Wonderland with an iron fist. Alyss escapes from Wonderland and is exiled to another world entirely--Victorian London--where she is adopted into a new family, renamed Alice, and befriended by Lewis Carroll. At age 20 she returns to Wonderland to battle Redd, reclaim the throne, and lead Wonderland into its next golden age of imagination.

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Item number (ASIN): 0439898250
Author: Frank Beddor
ISBN: 0439898250
Manufacturer: Scholastic Audio Books
Number Of Items: 7
Package Dimensions: 110 x 510 x 590 (hundredths-inches)
Publication Date: October 1, 2006
Publisher: Scholastic Audio Books
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Binding: Audio CD

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Average Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

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- Looking Glass Wars review
I liked this book. Alice in Wonderland is a well known and commonly remade story, but this book has a bit of a twist. Instead of Alice starting her life in the real world, she starts it in Wonderland. Then she gets transported to the real world until she is found and taken back to Wonderland. The Red Queen is still the enemy at large. All the characters are there, though some have been changed to make the story interesting in a different way. I liked it because of the character personalities, mainly Alyss's. She was daring and mischievous when she was young, and when she was older she had a very ordinary personality. She was the most realistic character in the book. I liked Wonderland. The only thing I didn't like was how predictible it was. I can't compare this book to the original because I've never read it, but I would say this book deserved 4 stars.

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- A good children's book
This book is fun and entertaining, but written a little simplistically. But it's a great read for children, probably aged 10-16 who have good imaginations.

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- Completely missed the mark
I just plain didn't get this book, and I really, really wanted to love it. I pushed myself to page 100 before I gave up the cause. Not only did the writing never engage me, the story was so loosely based on Alice in Wonderland that I would hardly call it a retelling of the same book. Yes, some of the characters had the same names, but they were completely up-ended--the Mad Hatter a martial artist? The White Rabbit a dottering old scholar? Come on, now; at least try to preserve a hint of what made us love the book in the first place. It seemed more like the author wanted to capitalize on the popularity of Alice in W. in order to get his book published. The book read like a record of gory, political strategy and there was nothing to pull me in. So disappointing.

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- A thoroughly enjoyable twist on a classic tale...
While this is classified as "young adult" fiction, any adult with an imagination and even a little memory of the Lewis Carroll tale can't help but to appreciate this enlightening twist on the familiar story. We come to find out that Alyss (the real spelling of her name) is less than impressed with - and even infuriated by - Carroll's rendition of her story, which at the time she believed would serve as a cry of help for someone to show her the way back through the Pool of Tears to become Wonderland's rightful queen. From the battle between "white" and "black" imagination, to the incredibly creative (and at times hilarious) descriptions of the characters and their abilities and weapons, to Wonderland's imagination parade, travel and communication systems, this new tale is one that is completely enjoyable and a great fantasy "get away." I am most of the way through the second book, "Seeing Redd," and am enjoying it just as thoroughly.

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- Zzzzzz.....
Not a lick of character development in this book, which makes me not give a hoot about what happens to anyone in this story. This book reads like a Cliff's Notes version of what a better book could be. It reads like he just wanted to get his ideas down on paper as quickly as possible, get it to the publisher and cash in. The story is rushed, the plot is rushed and his descriptions of the characters and world around them couldn't be less vivid. This thing needs a reboot by another author.