Alice Unbound

Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland by Colleen Anderson

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


*** Possible Spoilers ***

I quite enjoyed this book. It's a collection of short stories based loosely on the theme of Alice in Wonderland; however, the objective given to the authors was to create the sense of insanity that is part and parcel of that book. I didn't find any story that was unpleasant. There were a few where I thought the authors were trying a bit too hard to create a sense of the surreal and allowed their plots to slip a bit but even those stories were still pretty good.

In addition to the stories were a couple of poems that since I generally don't care for poetry I read them but wasn't particularly impressed. The comprised just a few paged of the book and the rest was stories.

I particularly enjoyed the idea - take a concept, scene or character from one of the books and turn it into something different. Like most people I enjoyed the originals and I'm not sure what direction I'd take such a story in but it's something to think about after reading these selections. This is quite worth the time to read.



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