{"id":117,"date":"2008-05-13T21:36:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T01:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/13\/review-of-the-looking-glass-wars-by-frank-beddor\/"},"modified":"2008-09-04T21:16:40","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T01:16:40","slug":"review-of-the-looking-glass-wars-by-frank-beddor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Looking Glass Wars, by Frank Beddor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Looking Glass Wars<\/em>, by Frank Beddor<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.lookingglasswars.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Dial Books, New York, 2006.\u00a0 358 pages.<\/p>\n

Starred review.<\/p>\n

What if Lewis Carroll didn\u2019t make up the story he told in Alice in Wonderland<\/em>?\u00a0 Suppose instead of him telling a story to Alice Liddell, she was the one who told a story to him.\u00a0 In that story, she was really Princess Alyss Heart of Wonderland.\u00a0 Suppose her story were true\u2026<\/p>\n

Alyss\u2019s last day in Wonderland was her seventh birthday.\u00a0 She was ready to begin her formal training to eventually become queen.\u00a0 Alyss had the most powerful imagination ever seen in a seven-year-old Wonderlander.\u00a0 This was important, because what the queen imagined became real.<\/p>\n

Instead of the Cheshire cat Lewis Carroll told about, Alyss\u2019s birthday was interrupted by a part-cat, part-human creature with nine lives, the chief assassin of her aunt Redd, who wanted the throne.\u00a0 Alyss\u2019s aunt Redd burst into the celebration shouting, \u201cOff with their heads!\u201d She battled Alyss\u2019s mother and took over the Queendom.<\/p>\n

Hatter Madigan was the name of Alyss\u2019s personal bodyguard.\u00a0 He managed to escape with Alyss to another world \u2013 our world.\u00a0 But on the way, he lost his grip on her, so while she landed in England, he wound up in Paris.<\/p>\n

At first, Alyss could still create things with her imagination.\u00a0 She could still make flowers sing.\u00a0 But as time went on, as her stories were mocked, as she was taught what was \u201creal\u201d and what was not, her imagination grew weaker.<\/p>\n

But after Lewis Carroll published his book of Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland, <\/em>Hatter Madigan, still searching for Alyss 13 years later, at last knows where to find her….<\/p>\n

This well-crafted book has characters that sound familiar, but have much more depth than you might have remembered.\u00a0 Once I started this book, I didn\u2019t want to stop.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to start reading the sequel right away!<\/p>\n

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The Looking Glass Wars, by Frank Beddor http:\/\/www.lookingglasswars.com\/ Dial Books, New York, 2006.\u00a0 358 pages. Starred review. What if Lewis Carroll didn\u2019t make up the story he told in Alice in Wonderland?\u00a0 Suppose instead of him telling a story to Alice Liddell, she was the one who told a story to him.\u00a0 In that story, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-teen-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}