jljaina's review
1.0
Art killed it for me. Not that is was bad but way too gritty for this series and none of the characters or places how I envisioned them. It actually made me think less of the novels. Sad day...
purplepages's review
5.0
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How do I even begin to describe this book?
For starters, I would like to get this out there, I loved the story of this book. It was so stupid of me to read this without reading the rest of the series, but one thing I can compliment this graphic novel was how much I understood what was going on, even if I have not read the previous volumes.
That's impressive.
I love retellings, and I love Alice in Wonderland, which should be obvious by now, seeing my blog name has Wonderland in it. Okay, let's go back to what I was saying, I love retellings, but I haven't really read one for Alice yet. When I requested this from Netgalley, I was so sure I was going to love it, just basing it from the synopisis, and true enough, I really did enjoy this.
There was so much rich details about the world. I loved how Wonderland and Earth work together in a discreet way. Of course, seeing this is a graphic novel with only 139 pages, there wouldn't be enough time to have character development. This had a little bit of it, but not so much, probably because I haven't read the other volumes yet (yes... I'm stupid like that. This is probably the third time it happened to me), so I'll definitely be checking those out and the books!
There were a lot of really interesting and unique things to look out on this book, one of which is the relationship of each of the Kingdom Suits and also the main character, Queen Alyss, at least, I think she's the main character. You sort of can't really tell because all of the character had their own time to shine, which is very uncommon nowadays. Usually, books focus on one main character, the rest are expendables, but not in this story.
One thing thought that I have to point out is that the illustrations might not be for everyone. Wonderland is supposed to be a place of wonder and magic, the illustrations gave justice to that. It gave the readers a feel of what it could be like in Wonderland. I can't explain how it looks like, so I'll post a sample here. There's a lot of strokes in the illustrations, which worked for me, although it can be a bit jarring sometimes.
Over all, I absolutely enjoyed this! I am definitely going to check out the rest of the books and the graphic novels! Kudos to the author for making such a great alternate version for Alice in Wonderland.
How do I even begin to describe this book?
For starters, I would like to get this out there, I loved the story of this book. It was so stupid of me to read this without reading the rest of the series, but one thing I can compliment this graphic novel was how much I understood what was going on, even if I have not read the previous volumes.
That's impressive.
I love retellings, and I love Alice in Wonderland, which should be obvious by now, seeing my blog name has Wonderland in it. Okay, let's go back to what I was saying, I love retellings, but I haven't really read one for Alice yet. When I requested this from Netgalley, I was so sure I was going to love it, just basing it from the synopisis, and true enough, I really did enjoy this.
There was so much rich details about the world. I loved how Wonderland and Earth work together in a discreet way. Of course, seeing this is a graphic novel with only 139 pages, there wouldn't be enough time to have character development. This had a little bit of it, but not so much, probably because I haven't read the other volumes yet (yes... I'm stupid like that. This is probably the third time it happened to me), so I'll definitely be checking those out and the books!
There were a lot of really interesting and unique things to look out on this book, one of which is the relationship of each of the Kingdom Suits and also the main character, Queen Alyss, at least, I think she's the main character. You sort of can't really tell because all of the character had their own time to shine, which is very uncommon nowadays. Usually, books focus on one main character, the rest are expendables, but not in this story.
One thing thought that I have to point out is that the illustrations might not be for everyone. Wonderland is supposed to be a place of wonder and magic, the illustrations gave justice to that. It gave the readers a feel of what it could be like in Wonderland. I can't explain how it looks like, so I'll post a sample here. There's a lot of strokes in the illustrations, which worked for me, although it can be a bit jarring sometimes.
Over all, I absolutely enjoyed this! I am definitely going to check out the rest of the books and the graphic novels! Kudos to the author for making such a great alternate version for Alice in Wonderland.
shalan's review against another edition
2.0
Really disappointed in this. I thoroughly enjoyed the book series and the Hatter M comics I've read. This just felt a little disjointed and the art was not what I would have expected.
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