A review by melycp
Insanity by Cameron Jace

4.0

Wow, what an inventive retelling. Honestly, this was actually so good. I didn’t know what to expect from a book set in an asylum. Would it be offensive, take things too far? I don’t think it did. Although it does use a word I really don’t like, but it wasn’t said with malice, so it could have been worse.

From the get-go, Insanity was gripping. I often found myself flying through the pages and with the slump I found myself in at the time, that was impressive. The writing style was simple yet effective. 

I love an Alice in Wonderland retelling, Alice Madness Returns is one of my all-time favourite games, and this was a great one. Having Alice be in an asylum is not very unique, but also having other ‘Wonderlanders’ with her was (at least I’ve never come across this before). I love that the caterpillar is a serial killer and the hunt for the Chesire Cat was so fun.

You meet many of Wonderland’s characters along the way and they are never what you expect. I still don’t know who Jack Diamonds is, but I’m interested to find out. 

I left it far too long after reading the book to write this review (I wanted to take a break for the holidays) so I’m struggling to write this review.

Just know that this is highly entertaining with high stakes and eccentric characters. I will definitely be checking out the next book in the future.