A review by ed_moore
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

“I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”

‘Alice through the Looking Glass’ is just as nonsensical a tale as ‘Alice in Wonderland’  though rather than a world based on a deck of cards Looking Glass Land mirrors a game of chess where Alice progresses through as a pawn, meeting the likes of Humpty Dumpty, Tweedle Dum and Dee and the Lion and the Unicorn to become a queen herself at the end of the board. It was fun and full of interludes of song and nursery rhyme, however also an improvement on ‘Wonderland’ in the terms that it is much more coherent in its narrative, however much less iconic also. There were curiously a pair of chapters that were each just a sentence or so long in the conclusion that caught me out a little however. Despite no Mad Hatters or Cheshire Cats I do think I preferred ‘Looking Glass’ just for being equally fun and nonsensical but a much more structured plot and narrative.