Review: Review From www.martinitimes.com - Martini Times Romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 8, 2013
Review From www.martinitimes.com - Martini Times RomanceI was browsing through Amazon looking for books to put in my Kindle Deal blog post, and I came across this FREE puppy. My attention was immediately captured. I have a fanatic obsession for all things Alice and the Mad Hatter. I freaking loved that SyFy show Alice and liked the obvious romantic undertones in Tim Burton's adaptation of Alice in Wonderland with Johnny Depp. (If only he hadn't been so cooky looking...sigh)Anyway so OF COURSE I was going to read Her Mad Hatter. I was up really late and had to work the next morning, but I was so intrigued that I started the book at 2am and stayed up til 5am to finish the short quick read.Now those of you who follow my reviews know I generally don't like novellas because most are rushed and the pacing is too fast. Not with this book or with the entire Kingdom Series (which I'll be reviewing all over the next few days!)Marie Hall took fairy tales that are so familiar and that we all love and made them her own. I am amazed by the fun details she adds into her stories, and she breathes life into those that are typically overlooked in the popular tales.Hook, Wolf, Gerard, Hatter, and Jinni are villains of the tried and true fairy tales we all group up reading about. But those stories are farthest from the truth! Marie Hall tells us how things really went down in her kingdom series, and in Her Mad Hatter we focus on the Mad Hatter of Wonderland.Her Mad Hatter begins with a fairy godmother named Danika who has been instructed to aid those that most other fairies want nothing to do with -the lowly, nefarious, bad boys of Kingdom. Danika must look out for her 5 handsome boys and ensure that they keep their noses clean. They are hardly boys however.These men are strapping, so unbelievably gorgeous that even little ol' fairy Danika can't help but admire how pretty they are. They've got that bad boy image, but underneath, they're good men just walking the planes of Kingdom desiring their mate and causing trouble in the meantime.Danika has been told that unless she aids each of her 5 boys in finding their one true mate within the year, Kingdom as they know it would crumble. Each of her boys plays an intrigual part in how their society runs, and they need their mate to balance out their wicked evil ways and keep them in line.Danika tells Hatter that she'll be bringing another Alice to Wonderland so they can spend the allotted 3 days together to see if they click. Hatter has had it with all the Alices that his fairy godmother has been parading around over the many years, and after the heartache he had endured because of that Alice...well...he's not interested in trying again.But Danika pushes because if Hatter does not find his mate, he'll lose himself to the insanity that's been whirling in his mind. Only his Alice can pull him back from the brink, and this time Danika knows EXACTLY which Alice to bring. She's found his mate on Earth and plans to bring her to Wonderland.Alice Hu has just opened up a cupcakery with her friend with an Alice in Wonderland theme. She's grown up her whole life dreaming and reading about Alice and her adventures and it's followed her into adulthood.When the shop closes up after its grand opening, a tired old woman comes in requesting a sugary treat. Instead of sending the woman off because they are closed, she offers her one even though she is getting a creepy vibe. She just plays it off. Before the woman leaves, she hands over a business card that says "rub here" and disappears.Come to find out that Alice's friend hadn't seen or heard the old woman and looks at Alice like she's grown two heads when Alice tells her about the creepy lady. Her friend swears no one had been here and urges Alice to go home and get some much needed sleep after such a busy, tiring day.As Alice relaxes at home, she plays with that business card and gives in, rubbing it. Then comes Danika as though she'd been summoned and whisks Alice away to Wonderland.Alice is freaking out, but she's plopped into the unknown world and Hatter comes upon her.When Hatter sees the new Alice, he freezes and freaks out. It's her! The Alice from long ago that broke his heart with her greed for Wonderland's power and hatefulness. He wants nothing to do with this woman even though the pull in his loins is inconceivably strong, urging him to her. He struggles and rushes off to find his fairy godmother.Alice follows behind him, skimpily dressed in her night clothes until Hatter stops and speaks to Danika. There Danika informs him that Alice is not the Alice that broke his heart. This new Alice is the great-granddaughter of that Alice, though she is nothing like her great-granddaughter and to please give this Alice a chance because she is in fact his mate.With little choice, Hatter takes Alice back to his home knowing that they must be together for at least 3 days. There's nothing they can do about that.Hatter doesn't trust this Alice, but OMG he wants her bad. And Alice can't help her mounting attraction and growing love for Hatter. Upon first seeing him, she knows that she had seen him before when she was younger- the day she fell in love with Hatter. And now she is determined to prove she loves him.This is the simplified version of the beginning stages of the story, but I really really want to beg each and every one of you to read this book and then the rest of the Kingdom Series. Author Marie Hall is a best-selling author and her words are like gold. I love her descriptions that she used to create such a world of fantasy and fairy tales.This series has quickly become one of my favorites, and that's saying a lot ESPECAILLY since each story is literally maybe 120 pages or a little less. But I didn't feel rushed. Her characterizations of Hatter and Alice worked really well here to make me fall in love with the sexiness, the craziness, their passion.SIGH...I want more Hatter and Alice books. Literally it's an obsession worse that my Twilight phase for Edward and Bella. LolIf you can't tell by my gushing, I'm giving this book 5 Olives. Tomorrow I'll review book 2 in this series, Gerard's Beauty-bet you can guess what that story may be about? But there's a great twist!Review From www.martinitimes.com - Martini Times Romance