Rating (Out of 5): ~3.5
Publisher: Yen Press (Previously, up to volume 5 [not omnibus], Tokyopop)
Volumes: 6; Omnibus: 3
Spoilers?: Some, including the person she chooses.
Goodreads Synopsis:
Kidnapped by a handsome
man with rabbit ears, Alice Liddell finds herself abandoned in an odd
place called Wonderland and thrust into a "game," the rules of which she
has yet to learn. Alice, ever the plucky tomboy, sets off to explore
and get the lay of this strange land, intent on finding her rude
kidnapper and giving him a piece of her mind (and her fist). But little
does she know that she's wandered right into the middle of a dangerous
power struggle involving just about all of Wonderland's attractive,
weapon-happy denizens. And the only way for Alice to return home is to
get acquainted with the lot of them?! How in the world will she manage
that and still manage to stay alive?!
Available on Amazon.
Review:
I’m a little unsure
what to think of this volume. Overall, I really like this series, but the
ending…
There was the ball,
and Alice danced with several people, and she had a fight with Blood, and a
talk with Vivaldi. And then there was a fight, and people talking with
Nightmare, and talk of how Alice’s glass is almost filled up, and Alice wanting
to go home but also going to miss everyone in Wonderland, and then it was time
for her to go home, and there were some mediocre goodbyes and some sweet
goodbyes and some nonexistent goodbyes. And then she went home, and then she
was brought back to Wonderland and her memory was, I think, erased or pushed
back, including how she apparently knows everyone, especially Peter, from some
other time but Nightmare won’t let her remember.
I want to know how
she knows them, what happened, and why Nightmare won’t let her remember. I’m
not happy with that being a cliffhanger.
I’m also not sure
how I feel about Alice’s going back to Wonderland. I mean, it kind of makes
sense, but that can only last so long, and why didn’t she have to choose to go
back, and instead just seemed resigned and waited for it to happen, and wasn’t
she supposed to bring someone back with her? (Did I just imagine that?) I think
I mostly feel uneasy because that’s not how it’s supposed to happen, and that
doesn’t seem like a complete ending, and I still have questions left
unanswered.
Then there’s the
fact that Alice chose Blood, which I had been expecting but am not very happy
about. He just… never won me over. I don’t totally trust him, and there were
other characters that I liked more.
I’m a little
unsatisfied, but I still enjoyed the books. Now I have to think about which
spin-off I want to read, or which one I want to start first, given that the
answer to which one is: all of them. I’m especially looking forward to the one
focused on Boris, and Julius, and I want one to focus on Peter. All three of
them have won me over as candidates, with Boris at top and Peter at the bottom.
The one to do with the Blood Twins looks good. There's also one with Elliot, and Ace, and a Joker story, but I'm not as excited for those ones.
Now, I guess I’m
just looking forward to finding out what happens next in the spin-offs.
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