I loved how she put her own spin on Walrus, Caterpillar, Cheshire and Rabbit! And oh Rabbit! What a character! Alice had been warned of him, but her fate was to meet him, plus he. What I enjoyed most is Henry’s creativity in combining the original Alice and adding her own style and signature to it. Things got pretty unpredictable and creepy after that. Beware of the goblin! In this sequel, they entered a forest enchanted by the White Queen, and were met with giants, a goblin and wolves! It wasn’t until later, when more of the story attached to Hatcher’s missing daughter was divulged, that we met Red Queen, and found out about the ravaging war between Black King and White Queen. Their adventure continued in ‘Red Queen’, this time, in search for Hatcher’s daughter, Jenny.

The book ended with them defeating the Jabberwock. In ‘Alice’, after escaping the fire in the asylum hospital with Hatcher, with whom she befriended during her time there, Alice and Hatchet decided to venture into Old City in search of their old enemies (all of whom are big time gangsters in the Old City) to settle old scores, while seeking a way to take down the biggest villain of them all – the most-feared, ever elusive, Jabberwock. Blood on her hands and under her feet, blood in her mouth and pouring from her eyes. But, to win, she will need to harness her newfound abilities and ally herself with someone even more powerful-the mysterious and vengeful Red Queen… Each move brings Alice closer to her destiny. The pieces are set and the game has already begun.

Still, Alice and Hatcher are on a mission to find his daughter, a quest they will not forsake even as it takes them deep into the clutches of the mad White Queen and her goblin or into the realm of the twisted and cruel Black King.

But the verdant fields are nothing but ash-and hope is nowhere to be found. A place where Alice could finally rest, no longer the plaything of the Rabbit, the pawn of Cheshire, or the prey of the Jabberwocky. The land outside of the Old City was supposed to be green, lush, hopeful.

Red Queen by Christina Henry