Review: Angst-ridden goofiness
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2013
Marie Hall has taken the idea of fairy-tale characters living in the alternate universe of Wonderland and given them romance in the human world.  In this book it's the Mad Hatter and Alice who form the couple.  Sounds clever, funny, and entertaining, right?  Then she fills the characters with angst and self-doubt and the plot with fear (psychological) and suffering (physical and psychological).  Without ever rounding out the characters or having anything really happen, she creates a painfully disjunctive novel that neither engages nor entertains.