What you thought you knew about Wonderland will be challenged by the reading of this book. This is a story of good and evil (the roles being well established), adventure, intrigue, humor and fantastic battles with glass eyes and decks of cards. Alyss flees from her aunt, spending many years in exile before returning to Wonderland to re-establish her rule with the use of White Imagination. Their happiness is broken up by the reintroduction of the Queen's mother, Redd, who comes back to Wonderland to claim the throne she believes is rightfully her own. The book opens with Alyss at age seven, living in a palace in Wonderland with her parents, the King and Queen. As it turns out, Lewis Carroll had it all wrong! Alyss Heart is heir to the Wonderland throne but circumstances have caused her to seek refuge in our world for a time. The Looking Glass Wars is the first in a trilogy of books describing what "really" happened to Alice from Wonderland. I'm trying to keep February a relatively light and fluffy month for books and this book fit the bill. I've been eye-balling this book on my shelf for some months, wanting to pull it down and read it. It's been several years since I read The Looking Glass Wars, by Frank Beddor and when I read it I didn't have much to say about it other than I loved it.
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