Review: A Fun, Grown Up Alice in Wonderland
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 19, 2013
Fairy God Mother Danika, who, unlike the other fairies, likes the bad boys and knows they deserve love too. After all her boys aren't evil they're just naughty. She's determined to help them find love, beginning with one of her favorites, The Mad Hatter.Danika just needs to find Hatter the right Alice, the Alice that will truly love him. The fairy walks into the Mad Hatter's Cupcakery and Tea Shoppe and the owner Alice serves her the last cupcake left that day, a Red Queen's Revenge: a red velvet cupcake, frosted with Italian butter cream with flecks of peppercorn. After she ate the yummy treat she hands Alice a card with the words - rub me - on it. Alice does as the card says and an enormous white rabbit appears and says, "You're late."A moment later Alice is in Wonderland where Danika does all she can to push The Mad Hatter and Alice into each other's arms. The real test of their love is if Wonderland itself will say yes or no to Alice.This is a fun, grown up retelling of Alice in Wonderland. I loved it. I only wish there were recipes in the back of the book for The Mad Hatter cupcake: a vanilla bean-based cupcake with a caramel covered slice of jalapeno at the center, and topped off with cream cheese frosting or the Red Queen's Revenge as described above.  I want to visit The Mad Hatter's Cupcakery and Tea Shoppe and have both of those cupcakes.