Review: More like 3 and a half but I'm feeling generous
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2012
I liked exploring this new world that Marie Hall created. It's a pleasant shift from the usual paranormal stuff that concerns vampires and shifters. I liked both characters and they were very relatable. I actually would only rate this book 3.5 stars but did 4 instead because it's definitely better than a 3.The Good:I liked Alice and Hatter. I liked them together as a couple. Hatter had bouts of sanity and a lot of "insanity" but he seemed to try hard to maintain some level of calm for "his Alice". He is also a fairly tortured hero and Alice is a young woman who just doesn't fit in anywhere.Marie Hall writes with a great amount of imagery. I suppose you have to be able to do that to describe a place like Wonderland. She did it really well. I'm excited to read the next book which I was able to grab for free on Amazon.The Bad:Sometimes I got a little loss in what was going on. Not in the way that I couldn't follow the story but in the way that I felt like I was the Mad Hatter. There was a lot happening all at once from Alice's thoughts to Hatter's mood swings. They were both a little bi-polar.It was a little weird for me to associate Hatter and Alice together in a sexy way. I was still thinking of her as the young girl but Marie Hall did a good job of disassociating because this Alice is Japanese Hawaiian. An obvious difference from blond haired child.The Ugly:Alice was a little, well a lot, obsessed with the Hatter prior to ever meeting him. It was a little unhealthy. I'm happy it worked out between them but I would have liked if she wasn't so on board from the beginning. To me, it was very cheesy that Alice was obsessed with all things Wonderland from the name of her bakery shop to her prom dress in a flashback.I would have liked to get to know Hatter a little more. The author explained away that reason why we don't really get to know him, but I hope we are able to see him in future books and get to know him a little better.I'm excited to continue this series!