He’s big and mean, and he means business. One night, a fire breaks out in the building and instead of being burnt to death inside this prison, Hatcher comes to her rescue. All she knows is her room, the orderlies, the moon outside her window, and the friendly man on the other side of the wall that says his name is Hatcher. It’s hard for her to remember much of the present, let alone her horrific past, with all of the drugs that they’ve been feeding her. Alice has been locked up in an asylum for the last ten years. This tale begins long after the fallout of Alice’s return from her first trip into this alternate world that has left some serious emotional and psychological scars on her. Indeed, it doesn’t take long at all once you begin reading these pages to understand just how dark and twisted the mind of this author likes to be. But here I am getting ahead of myself a bit.ĪLICE ( Amazon) is the first in the Chronicles of Alice series and a great place to get to know the author’s works. There’s enough of both the familiar and the new that they end up being really great reads. One of the great things about storytelling though is that even if the ideas and plots are pillars of stability in our minds, a new tale can still be just as invigorating and fun to read as if everything were brand new. There have been enough versions of both these tales told that it might seem as if we really don’t need another. That first one was a brilliant take on the simple tale of Red Riding Hood, and I was hoping to find more of the same in this one, which is obviously pointed at the classic tale Alice in Wonderland.

After reading Christina Henry’s THE GIRL IN RED ( EBR Review), I couldn’t wait to find out what other tales she’d been telling that I didn’t yet know about.

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