What’s on the bookshelf: The Looking Glass Wars

I cannot say I’ve ever been a fan of Alice in Wonderland. Not the books by Lewis Carroll, not the Disney animated film, not Syfy’s miniseries, not the latest movie with Johnny Depp (and who doesn’t like Johnny?). I’ve had an aversion to anything to do with Wonderland my entire life. I cannot explain it; it’s just not my cup of tea.

It is for these reasons that I’ve avoided The Looking Glass Wars, Seeing Redd and Arch Enemy, also known as Frank Beddor’s Looking Glass Wars trilogy. My friends re...