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Splintered
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September 1, 2014
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October 1, 2014
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Mai is a Happy Bibliophile

Beautiful. Angsty. All kinds of Weird.
Welcome to the real Wonderland.

Those are the words I can think of when I read Splintered.
Man.. This is a really twisted version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I can't help admiring this book and the way it was written. Sure, this really dark and dramatic, but the words are beautiful. So, A.G. Howard:



Characters. Err.. i guess this is where my real problem with this book comes in. I did not like ANY of the characters. I just read about them
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Sara Mojica
You can see this review on my blog

What can I say about this book? It's AMAZING, duh! This is the second book that I've read that takes on the story of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, the first being Alice in Zombieland. In my opinion, I liked this one more. Howard creates a world of fantasy and adventure and the writing style makes you believe what you're reading is real.

Alyssa is the perfect heroine. Her life is far from perfect but she finds a way to deal with it all. She doesn't sit in
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Rachel
May 21, 2013 rated it liked it
Shelves: pretty-cover
I loved this book and Morpheus!

Wait, never mind that was my original reaction....
After thinking about the book several months later and being unable to remember anything other than how weird everyone is, I decided I don't like this book too much. Morpheus was cool, but I didn't really connect with the main characters (or the secondary ones for that matter). This book might've been better if I was a morbid, bug-killing psychopath, but instead I'm a Alice-in-wonderland-hating (at least the animate
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Naiu Herondale
Nov 04, 2013 rated it it was amazing
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Fandoms Queen
Nov 26, 2013 rated it really liked it
~Fern~
Dec 08, 2013 rated it really liked it
Emma
Dec 08, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Mar 28, 2014 marked it as to-read
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Ashley Tropea
Jul 27, 2014 rated it it was amazing
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