Review: A Modern Day Alice Must Go To Wonderland to Find Her True Love
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 18, 2013
This is the beginning book in a series where we are introduced to the fairy godmother with the toughest task.  Her assignment to find Happily Ever Afters for  within a time limit are the badboys of the stories:  Captain Hook, Big Bad Wolf, Mad Hatter, etch.This particular book focuses on the Mad Hatter because he is slowly slipping away into his madness and is dying.  His Alice left him disillusioned after only coveting the magic of Wonderland, but never him.  He has given up and its up to his fairy godmother to find and bring him the true Alice before its too late.Alice is not the success her mother wanted, but she is happy now that she has opened her Mad Hatter bakery and tea shop.  She hides her hidden love of the Mad Hatter behind a surface love for all things Wonderland.  She has loved the Hatter since he came to her in her dreams during her illness, but everyone told her she was crazy.  Suddenly, Alice learns that she was not crazy when a human size white rabbit pushes her down the hole into the real Wonderland.  The Hatter she finds there though looks the same, but he is cold and suspicious.  He acts like they had met before.Hatter learns of his mistake and this is not the original Alice, but he believes she will leave him all the same and that like the rest, Wonderland won't accept her.  Except- there is is something different about this Alice.  She is interested in him and is able to get Wonderland to do magic for her beyond the others.  She is different and he does start to care, but Wonderland doesn't respond.  This Alice leaves too at his insistence, but soon he learns his mistake.The plot was good, but not a lot of time to develop things.  I liked the characters and wished there would have been more time to delve deeper into them.  I like this concept of reforming the baddies of popular fantasy stories with finding love.I look forward to the next installment in the series.