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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Spicy Alice in Wonderland. It’s a fun read. Good spicy scenes.
Low-key a bit obsessed with this series man
Will be finding out what happened next
Will be finding out what happened next
And with that, I'm done. I gave the series another chance since the second book was an Alice in Wonderland retelling, but not even Alice could save this one for me.
Okay so I was SMITTEN with the first book, including Fin and Clara.
However...I was a little bored with them in this book. I found myself annoyed every time one of their chapters rolled around, because what I actually wanted was to be focusing on Alice/the Rabbit/the Cat. I enjoyed their chapters a lot more, maybe because there was some needed drama in them which cut out the endless spice scenes of the Fin/Clara chapters. (Although I know why we had to have them, since nothing was happening with the other trio!)
The story was fast-paced, and I didn't even realize how long the book was because I just blew right through it in two days. Can't wait for the third this fall!
However...I was a little bored with them in this book. I found myself annoyed every time one of their chapters rolled around, because what I actually wanted was to be focusing on Alice/the Rabbit/the Cat. I enjoyed their chapters a lot more, maybe because there was some needed drama in them which cut out the endless spice scenes of the Fin/Clara chapters. (Although I know why we had to have them, since nothing was happening with the other trio!)
The story was fast-paced, and I didn't even realize how long the book was because I just blew right through it in two days. Can't wait for the third this fall!
adventurous
dark
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Rebecca is back at it again with a loose retelling of Alice in Wonderland.
The nods to the original story are brilliant, I think this series is only getting better each book.
Falling in a hole? check.
Going to another crazy world? check
Leading in to the story from the basis of another retelling and somehow making them mold together to make a brilliant fae story? check.
I will scream from the mountain tops that Rebecca is an amazing author and deserves you to check out her work.
The nods to the original story are brilliant, I think this series is only getting better each book.
Falling in a hole? check.
Going to another crazy world? check
Leading in to the story from the basis of another retelling and somehow making them mold together to make a brilliant fae story? check.
I will scream from the mountain tops that Rebecca is an amazing author and deserves you to check out her work.
This was a great sequel in the Wicked Darlings series. The story follows Clara and Fin (who were my fav couple from the first book) as they venture under cover into unseelie territory to rescue a kidnapped human woman from some unseelie fae. The woman in question is Alice, the unseelie fae are the White Rabbit and Cheshire cat - this is a Wonderland retelling, again in the loosest sense of the word. The Queen of Hearts is killing fae indiscriminately, and although they have pretty gruesome intentions with Alice, both the White Rabbit and Cheshire cat really just want to save their kingdom from the evil Queen's rule. Tuns Clara and Fin have the same goal - they just also want to save Alice.
Clara and Fin were once again just sweet and sexy. They communicate so well which is beautiful and they've opened up to each other in a natural way. I thought they both showed a lot of growth and development as characters and they're just fun to read about.
Now for Alice - she's aged up in this retelling, at 20 years old. I'm not a big fan of the "naive, young, and fairly uneducated woman who has never had sex gets abducted by a hot sexy man who shows her what an orgasm is while she's his captive and she starts to fall for him" trope BUT I liked Alice, the Rabbit, and the Cat all as characters.
Alice is smart and inquisitive which causes the Rabbit to spare her initially, instead of killing her immediately, because he enjoys chatting with her about his work (even if that work is dissecting humans). Additionally her caring and nurturing nature is enticing to the Cat who has deep emotions and loves to be soft and cuddly, but lives in the unseelie world where those attributes are frowned upon. The Rabbit called her kitten, which not gonna lie is a great nickname in this case. The Cat called her mousey which was also cute. The decision made by Alice at the very end saved the story for me and I liked Rabbit's realizations and acceptance of the situation. Unfortunately, Cat ran from Alice and Rabbit just before the climax because he's afraid of the truth and couldn't face his feelings/what needed to be done to save the unseelie court. He has a lot of development coming I think.
They'll be back in the third book and I'm excited to see how this throuple shakes out. Since it'll most definitely end up a throuple, right?
Clara and Fin were once again just sweet and sexy. They communicate so well which is beautiful and they've opened up to each other in a natural way. I thought they both showed a lot of growth and development as characters and they're just fun to read about.
Now for Alice - she's aged up in this retelling, at 20 years old. I'm not a big fan of the "naive, young, and fairly uneducated woman who has never had sex gets abducted by a hot sexy man who shows her what an orgasm is while she's his captive and she starts to fall for him" trope BUT I liked Alice, the Rabbit, and the Cat all as characters.
Alice is smart and inquisitive which causes the Rabbit to spare her initially, instead of killing her immediately, because he enjoys chatting with her about his work (even if that work is dissecting humans). Additionally her caring and nurturing nature is enticing to the Cat who has deep emotions and loves to be soft and cuddly, but lives in the unseelie world where those attributes are frowned upon. The Rabbit called her kitten, which not gonna lie is a great nickname in this case. The Cat called her mousey which was also cute. The decision made by Alice at the very end saved the story for me and I liked Rabbit's realizations and acceptance of the situation. Unfortunately, Cat ran from Alice and Rabbit just before the climax because he's afraid of the truth and couldn't face his feelings/what needed to be done to save the unseelie court. He has a lot of development coming I think.
They'll be back in the third book and I'm excited to see how this throuple shakes out. Since it'll most definitely end up a throuple, right?
Read this sucker on a flight with no regrets. But now a I need a sequel to this sequel because I want more Alice, Cat and Rabbit!