Review: Wonderland by way of Miami
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 30, 2010
I was prepared to not like this book.  While the premise did sound interesting, I just felt that it was not going to be something I could really get my heart into.  Mistake...  I read it straight through, staying up until the wee hours of the morning - on a work night!  I very much enjoyed picking out the correlations between characters in this book and the ones in Lewis Carroll's 'Alice'.  Not all were obvious.  I also found the 'substory' of a lonely, depressed woman's experience with Internet romance to be sadly accurate.  The author portrayed the emotional roller-coaster of Alice's romance with Nigel and her unfortunate credulity all too well, and this should be required reading for anyone who is participating in online dating (or thinking of doing so).  Don't get me wrong - this was a very clever, quirky, and laugh-out-loud story, but it did  have a tale to tell and a warning to convey, however humorously.  Even Wonderland is not immune to human nature.  Definitely recommended.