Splintered (Splintered, #1) in Pick-a-Shelf

Feb 12, 2019 Carrie rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult, recommended, based-on-another-re-tellings, love-triangle, goblins, books-about-or-mentioning-books, alice-in-wonderland, wonderland

This was MUCH better then I thought it was going to be.

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Mar 27, 2016 Nancy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, ya, fairy-tales, retellings

I think there were as many not so good things as good things about this story. Listening to it on audio, I found that although it was enormously imaginative, there was so much happening and so many bizarre situations that I kept losing track of what was going on. It could perhaps have had slightly fewer episodes and would have been just as good. On the flip-side, it was a great retelling and the characters weren't objectionable. It was a good, solid 3 star read for me. ...more

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Jun 05, 2014 Dee rated it liked it

Shelves: read-2014

more like 2.5 but rounding up to 3...it was REALLY weird...I kind of felt like I needed to be high to understand some of the parts

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Dec 23, 2013 Roseann rated it really liked it

Shelves: roseann-s-tower-challenge-team-b

A lovely retelling of Alice In Wonderland with a 20th-21st century point of view.

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Aug 30, 2012 Tara rated it liked it

Shelves: debut-authors

Eh.... This book took me a while to get into and took a lot of effort for me to get myself to believe in the world being weaved throughout the story.
Of course, I did find that once I was about 1/2 way through I began to like the book. It is just that it should not take me that much effort to like a book. I want to crave reading a book and stay up late just to see what will happen next. I want to love the characters so that I can cheer for them and cry for them. Unfortunately, I never felt eithe ...more

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