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emma_tonia's review against another edition
4.0
I gave this book 4 stars for the first quarter of the book and the last quarter. I can recall much that happened in between.
passion_shaffer's review against another edition
5.0
I loved it. It was so so good. I could stop at this book and be perfectly happy. Though I will be reading the rest of the series. I think people should really read this book. It gives a really good spin on the whole, "Alice in wonderland" theme.
elleyotter's review against another edition
4.0
High-school Me would have loved this book. it makes 30-something-year-old Me shake my head and smile fondly at the folly of youth (and High-school Me).
pineapple42's review against another edition
2.0
I hate my life and I hate this book. Which is a shame really bc I thought Howard's other book, Roseblood, was pretty good. Meanwhile this book just made me upset. Honestly, I should have DNFed it sooner. But yeah, if other like it and this series, more power to them.
lifeoflorac's review against another edition
4.0
I am not going to lie this book took a minute to get my attention, but when it did, there was nothing stopping me from getting caught up in it. I hurried from work to get the next book. I am interested. Very interested.
"Sometimes a flame must level a forest to ash before new growth can begin. I believe Wonderland needed a scouring."- Ivory Queen.
"Sometimes a flame must level a forest to ash before new growth can begin. I believe Wonderland needed a scouring."- Ivory Queen.
maleh97's review against another edition
5.0
it was a reread and i loved it more this time than the last
booksandsparkles's review against another edition
5.0
Wauw, wat een boek! Het was zo gaaf en bizar en vol plottwists... dit is Alice in Wonderland zoals je haar nog nooit hebt gelezen!
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I had no idea what to expect from this book haha! This was such an unique look on the entire Alice in Wonderland story as we know it. I really fell in love with these quirky characters. Also, for the fans of The Sandman: it really gave off Sandman-vibes!
This book is a bit weird (but hey, it's Alice in Wonderland) and makes you doubt if you should root for the nice guy or the mad one all the time. And I loved the original-Alice story, their "history" where it all started.
The writing style was very pleasant. A little slower then we are used to perhaps, because the books are a little older already, but it didn't bother me at all. I just couldn't stop reading, looking at the beautiful design. I was very intrigued by everything and I can't wait for the next book. I'm sure it's gonna be just as pretty!
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I had no idea what to expect from this book haha! This was such an unique look on the entire Alice in Wonderland story as we know it. I really fell in love with these quirky characters. Also, for the fans of The Sandman: it really gave off Sandman-vibes!
This book is a bit weird (but hey, it's Alice in Wonderland) and makes you doubt if you should root for the nice guy or the mad one all the time. And I loved the original-Alice story, their "history" where it all started.
The writing style was very pleasant. A little slower then we are used to perhaps, because the books are a little older already, but it didn't bother me at all. I just couldn't stop reading, looking at the beautiful design. I was very intrigued by everything and I can't wait for the next book. I'm sure it's gonna be just as pretty!
idoreadbooks's review against another edition
2.0
Unfortunately, this book dissapointed me. I really liked the beginning and the end was also satisfying, but the 300 pages in between were just boring and not really interesting for me. I understand why people would like this book, but this wasn't the book for me :( It took me almost A MONTH to read it, which is quite a long time for me.
laraph's review against another edition
I can’t recommend this book. And frankly, I’m discouraged by the strong favourable reviews of it here. I’ll be reading the entire Kirkus review and not trusting them excerpted only.
Despite my high hopes based on the cool cover and the enticing synopsis, I was greatly disappointed in Splintered. The opening scene is promising — Alyssa is morbidly describing her hatred and killing of talking bugs — but the story goes rapidly downhill from there.
My expectations build with an action-less intro scene, some long backstory, a recurring dream sequence (waaay too long before anything happens in this book, but that’s another problem): after the long setup of this loner teenager, hiding her insanities of hearing talking bugs, teased and presumably friendless, she goes to an unrealistically awesome skate park alone, crashes to be picked up embarassingly by a hot staffer… who is a best friend/neighbour since childhood? Where did that come from? A few scenes later suddenly she has two bff’s.
This is a very jarring introduction of characters that shouldn’t exist according the opening pages. That she’s crushing on the hot bf is no surprise. More confusing still were the descriptions of his way too frequent caresses: all hot and steamy one second, cool just friends the next.
By that point, I could no longer trust the author. Rather than evoke the fantastical deranged falling down the rabbit hole and emerging wonderland, descriptions were self contradictory and the similes impossible. For instance, just how can fiber-optics be “a soft velveteen fuzz”? When she should be pulling me into the story, her narrative clumsiness kept shoving me back onto the page.
The main character is pushed around by the unfolding action around her, is constantly protected by her hot bf, and hardly ever (once?) does she so much as make a decision, let alone show real bravery in the entire book.
When it nearly seems reasonable that the “girl gets the boy”, with a wish the MC redos the entire adventure to save the boy. For convenience in “getting the boy” at the end of the novel, the author skips ahead to the same conclusions despite removing the shared adventure that got them there.
As a killing blow (for me), the author misuses words and makes up new ones in what I can only assume was mimicry of the jabberwocky poem gone wrong.
Despite my high hopes based on the cool cover and the enticing synopsis, I was greatly disappointed in Splintered. The opening scene is promising — Alyssa is morbidly describing her hatred and killing of talking bugs — but the story goes rapidly downhill from there.
My expectations build with an action-less intro scene, some long backstory, a recurring dream sequence (waaay too long before anything happens in this book, but that’s another problem): after the long setup of this loner teenager, hiding her insanities of hearing talking bugs, teased and presumably friendless, she goes to an unrealistically awesome skate park alone, crashes to be picked up embarassingly by a hot staffer… who is a best friend/neighbour since childhood? Where did that come from? A few scenes later suddenly she has two bff’s.
This is a very jarring introduction of characters that shouldn’t exist according the opening pages. That she’s crushing on the hot bf is no surprise. More confusing still were the descriptions of his way too frequent caresses: all hot and steamy one second, cool just friends the next.
By that point, I could no longer trust the author. Rather than evoke the fantastical deranged falling down the rabbit hole and emerging wonderland, descriptions were self contradictory and the similes impossible. For instance, just how can fiber-optics be “a soft velveteen fuzz”? When she should be pulling me into the story, her narrative clumsiness kept shoving me back onto the page.
The main character is pushed around by the unfolding action around her, is constantly protected by her hot bf, and hardly ever (once?) does she so much as make a decision, let alone show real bravery in the entire book.
When it nearly seems reasonable that the “girl gets the boy”, with a wish the MC redos the entire adventure to save the boy. For convenience in “getting the boy” at the end of the novel, the author skips ahead to the same conclusions despite removing the shared adventure that got them there.
As a killing blow (for me), the author misuses words and makes up new ones in what I can only assume was mimicry of the jabberwocky poem gone wrong.