Outerwilderbeastia. Wonderlandtropolis. Borderland. 
 Excuse me while I snort kombucha out my nose. Those names! They're so... positively ridiculous. 
 Really silly naming aside, this book was pretty good.IF you can get past the initial weirdness and just remember that this is Alice in Wonderland (kind of) then you can swallow all the bizarre things, people, and places readily enough, because the original book was the epitome of weird. 
 Oh dear, and now I just gave you the idea that this is somewhat like the original book. Wipe that thought out of your heads. Right now. Off with that thought! Because this book is absolutely nothing, I repeat nothing, like the original children's story that I loved so much as a girl. 
 Which doesn't mean that one should run in the opposite direction screaming. Then I'd miss a lot of neat books. 
 Annnyway 
 This book of Alyss, Princess of Wonderland, was a darker, blood-filled, crazy telling of the classic story. Murder, war, regicide. All of that good stuff is lurking in these pages. 
 This book is intense and exciting, pretty much never slowing down. I was always interested in what would happen and glued to the pages. 
 The characters aren't particularly deep, but they were passable. Alyss's struggle in the real world makes sense, and Dodge's general anger as well, but there isn't too much to them other than that. Hatter, Doppleganger, and the White Rook didn't really have any personality, they just were who they were. There was little to make them human and unique, which didn't really hinder the story, but it would have improved it. 
 Oh, and Redd. She's just evil, and that's that. There's no depth there, just wickedness. 
 But this story, this creepy version of Wonderland, was super exciting and thrilling. I'll definitely be reading the sequels!