Things I liked: I read this so quickly and it was kind of engrossing even though nothing happened. The Wonderland retelling vibes were strong and really enjoyable. // Things I didn't like: nothing happened. Like at all. There was so little plot in this book I can't even look back and think about how it has this amount of pages. Dinah was a moron and not memorable really in any way. I didn't feel anything towards the "romance." There's no explanation for why her father hates her/ how her mother died. Lots of info-dumping. 
 //Full thoughts// 
 This was overall an interesting retelling set in Wonderland, from the perspective of the soon-to-be Queen of Hearts, Dinah. Something happens very early in the book that still feels like a spoiler (it's not said in the synopsis), so I won't mention it... although it's central to the rest of the plot. 
 Anyways, I have mostly mixed feelings about this one? It's kind of hard to explain this story... mostly because not much happens. I was about 60% of the way through and was able to explain the entire plot to my boyfriend within three sentences. Part of this is because it's very info-dump-y in the beginning. There were little conversations where side characters would be explaining something to Dinah even though she already knew these random facts about Wonderland. I know these existed to cleverly explain things to the reader, but it felt SO forced. It really just read like an info-dump about the world. A lot of the early chapters involved this so the book had not a lot of action for a loooong time. Along those same lines, the pacing felt weird. The story seems to happen over the course of a year. The first scene happens, then the next chapter is six months later. Then another scene happens, and it jumps ahead a month or two. I don't know why this was necessary because I feel like everything could have just happened in a more natural timeline? 
 Once the initial set-up happened (almost 3/4 of the way through the book), a bit more action started happening. Unfortunately, it was all pretty darn predictable. I knew what her dad was up to for almost the entire story. It took a long time to happen and it was interesting when it did... but I was hoping for more OOMPH or something?? 
 As for as Dinah is concerned, she was very angry all the time. I understood where she was coming from in a lot of ways because her father was terrible to her, but she was enraged SO easily about other things too. I don't remember anything else about her. The other characters weren't fleshed out and I had no investment in the romance at all. I didn't see it or understand it or ship it. 
 A few more good things: I really couldn't stop reading this one. It was an INCREDIBLY quick read for some reason. For a book with little action and a lot of set up, I was kind of addicted to it. I read it in the course of a couple of hours. (If I wasn't so sleepy at one point, I would have just finished it in one sitting before bed.) I have to admit that I'm very intrigued to see where this series goes from here.