Book Breakups - Week 2

"Book Breakups" is a weekly meme hosted by Pure Imagination. Have you ever stopped reading a book because it was so boring, you couldn't finish it or for whatever reason just stopped? This is what this meme's about.


One Book I've Broken Up with is:

Seeing Redd
by Frank Beddor


I broke up with this book, because well...


I didn't have time to finish it. I'd already renewed this book TWICE and I just couldn't finish it. I really loved The Looking Glass Wars, but I couldn't remember some of the details and therefore, Seeing Redd just didn't make so much sense. I'll re-read The Looking Glass Wars one of these days and THEN read Seeing Redd.


here's the blurb:


Wonderland finally seems as if it's getting back to normal. Queen Alyss is back on the throne, and reunited with her childhood sweetheart, Dodge. But the fight for Wonderland is far from over. King Arch, in nearby Boarderland, is conniving to overthrow everything for which Alyss and her friends have fought so hard. Even worse, King Arch has found an ally in the recently returned Redd, who has been biding her time and gathering new and evil assassins in the Catacombs of Paris. With enemies circling and danger looming, someone close to Alyss lets her down-and threatens the future of Wonderland forever.


What's a book that you've stood up? Leave a link/comment!

The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

The Myth: Alice was an ordinary girl who stepped through the looking glass and entered a fairy-tale world invented by Lewis Carroll in his famous storybook. 

The Truth: Wonderland is real. Alyss Heart is the heir to the throne, until her murderous aunt Redd steals the crown and kills Alyss' parents. To escape Redd, Alyss and her bodyguard, Hatter Madigan, must flee to our world through the Pool of Tears. 

But in the pool Alyss and Hatter are separated. Lost and alone in Victorian London, Alyss is befriended by an aspiring author to whom she tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life. Yet he gets the story all wrong. 
Hatter Madigan knows the truth only too well, and he is searching every corner of our world to find the lost princess and return her to Wonderland so she may battle Redd for her rightful place as the Queen of Hearts.


I thought that The Looking Glass Wars was an interesting parallel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I like the fact that Beddor changed some of the characters to make things more interesting, such as The White Rabbit into Bibwit Harte (an anagram of White Rabbit) into Alyss' tutor and Hatter Madigan (The Mad Hatter) into her bodyguard. The Cat was an evil character in this book (was he good in Alice in Wonderland? I have no idea. Been AGES since I last read it!) and was like an "Assassin" and it was really cool how Beddor used the idea of cat's 9 lives. 


The Looking Glass Wars is magnificently put together, almost making it seem that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland IS the Myth and we got it wrong the whole time.


I'm currently reading the second book of the series, Seeing Redd and will write a review soon!