Got sent this book as a winner of the Goodreads Giveaway that was happening, I must admit, I had not heard of the book or the series before, and applied for no reason other than the fact that the book seemed interesting. IT BLEW ME AWAY! Everyone experiences that book hangover after you've finished a good series and I was suffering from exactly that (blame shadowhunters), but when I received this book in the post, I searched online for the series and found out that it was the final of three books, so I ordered the first two, and absolutely fell in love, I found myself finishing all three books within a week, IT put me into such a wonderland mindset, and I'm still in one right now. Okay, less about me, and more about the book. Firstly the idea of the series is amazing, it brings alice into this century, and Alyssa absolutely reminds me of the Alice portrayed in Avril Lavigne's music video for the Tim Burton's Alice Film. Alyssa is totally kick ass, the skater girl, rock chic, princess. Very Avril Lavigne like (totally think she'd make the perfect Alyssa if they ever made the books into movie adaptations)As for Morpheous, I totally expected him to be the role of the mad hatter at first but finding him out to be our hot mothy caterpillar was so much better. The whole plot is genius, from the evil zombie flowers of wonderland to Rabid White being addicted to cookies and phone games. All the characters from our beloved wonderland are brought back in this fantastic adaption of Carroll's original Alice. So much hotter, so much darker, and so much more fun! This book, unfortunately, is the last of its kind, and that is sad, because I totally want to know more of what happens later on *wink wink* (avoiding spoilers) Red and Alyssa, is a perfect portrayal of how we sometimes need to embrace our fears and bad qualities to know how to overcome them, and I think that was one of my favourite parts about this book. Then we have the boys, oh the boys, they are just too good, Won't give anything away, but this book shows just how pure a love Jeb and Morph have for Alyssa, its not something we see often with characters who are lucky enough to be loved by two people (I don't think they are right being labeled as a love triangle). Jeb and Morph show a pure and unselfish love, and thats one of the most beautiful things we see about this series and especially in this finale. We revisit the memory train in this one and we find out so much more about the other major characters in this book. I'd totally recommend listening to the soundtracks of both alice films while reading the stories, it goes perfectly hand in hand, as if tailored for it. Can't recommend this book enough, thank you so much to the publishers for sending me a copy. An early birthday present to myself, this book did not disappoint me. Alyssa finally steps up to the crazy plate in this book and shows us that she can be ruthless enough to rule the red kingdom of Wonderland.The characters in this book were consistant, but showed the growth they needed to (even Morpheus who was perfect as is before). Alyssa, as I mentioned earlier, finally let her crazy side out to play a little, Jeb stayed perfectly annoying, as usual, Alyssa's dad acted very much like Jeb (a.k.a. slightly irritating), and Morpheus stayed awesome, funny, tricky, but yet showed his compassionate side.While the ending wasn't quite what I was looking for, I feel it did do the series justice. I loved the setting in this final book and the plot moved along a lot better than it did in the second book. My only real complaint is that there was a little too much Jeb for my liking, but that was to be expected with that cover...oh, that and I wasn't too fond of Alyssa's dad's backstory. But otherwise this was a great conclusion to one of the best YA series I've read in a long time.
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2015? SERIOUSLY?!!!! When did this world become so cruel. I want this so bad it hurts.
—Katie1998
