{"id":129,"date":"2008-05-24T22:10:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T02:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/24\/review-of-seeing-redd-by-frank-beddor\/"},"modified":"2008-10-08T22:22:13","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T02:22:13","slug":"review-of-seeing-redd-by-frank-beddor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Review of Seeing Redd, by Frank Beddor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image198\" height=\"240\" alt=\"seeing_redd.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/seeing_redd.jpg\" \/>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Seeing Redd:\u00a0 The Looking Glass Wars, Book Two, <\/em>by Frank Beddor<\/p>\n<p>Dial Books, New York, 2007.\u00a0 371 pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lookingglasswars.com\/\">http:\/\/www.lookingglasswars.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com\/teen\">www.penguin.com\/teen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <em>Seeing Redd, <\/em>the sequel to <em>The Looking Glass Wars, <\/em>Queen Alyss&#8217;s Aunt Redd is again plotting to take over the queendom of Wonderland.\u00a0 Now she&#8217;s in our world gathering a sinister army to join her.\u00a0 Next door to Wonderland, Alyss&#8217;s neighbor King Arch has plots of his own.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Hatter Madigan is finding out what happened to his family while he was gone.<\/p>\n<p>This second book has a darker feel, with lots of time taken up showing the evil of those dedicated to Black Imagination.\u00a0 There&#8217;s also lots of detail in the fighting and weaponry.\u00a0 This trilogy (I believe it will be) will make an exciting movie some day with lots of special effects, but I had trouble visualizing the detailed weaponry, and wasn&#8217;t terribly interested in that part.<\/p>\n<p>I am now quite interested in Alyss, so I will definitely want to read the third book when it comes out.\u00a0 I hope she gets a time of rest at the end!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0142412090\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\"><font color=\"#0b76ae\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This review is posted on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/seeing_redd.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/seeing_redd.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Seeing Redd:\u00a0 The Looking Glass Wars, Book Two, by Frank Beddor Dial Books, New York, 2007.\u00a0 371 pages. http:\/\/www.lookingglasswars.com\/ www.penguin.com\/teen In Seeing Redd, the sequel to The Looking Glass Wars, Queen Alyss&#8217;s Aunt Redd is again plotting to take over the queendom of Wonderland.\u00a0 Now she&#8217;s in our world gathering a sinister army to [&hellip;]<\/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-129","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\/129","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=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}