Geschreven bij Alice
A retelling of Alice-in-Wonderland. After an encounter with the Rabbit when she was sixteen, Alice came back with blood between her legs and a frayed mind. She has been locked away in an asylum ever since, where she met Hatcher, an axe-murderer and her only friend. Now, after ten years, the time has come to escape and fight the Jaberwock, who has escaped as well and poses a threat bigger than all the crime-lords in the Old City combined.
‘Alice’ is the first book in what I believe is going to be a duology. This book is shelved as horror. I didn’t think it was very scary, however it was gruesome. It addresses violence against women a lot: the Old City is basically one big whorehouse with human trafficking. If this is something that triggers you, I would advise you to stay away from this book. Personally, I could deal with it, because though this book was bleak, it wasn’t completely hopeless; it was great to see how Alice took control and refused to be a victim any longer about halfway through the story. I also liked that Alice and Hatcher didn’t constantly take the moral high-ground. Instead, they sometimes killed if that was necessary and didn’t dwell on it; in a dog-eats-dog-world, you can’t do that. ‘Alice’ is a loose retelling of ‘Alice in Wonderland’. We do have a Caterpillar and a White Rabbit, but they are all crime lords, not animals. I liked how Henry took the elements that were so typical of this well-known story, then managed to make her own original story. I’m looking forward to the second part.