The Looking Glass Wars

I was planning to read for my outside reading book The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. It is 358 pages and I ended up finishing it. So, instead I am planning to read the sequel to The Looking Glass Wars, the book Seeing Redd.

The Looking Glass Wars is a very good book and is a fractured fairy tale of Alice in Wonderland. The story is about Alyss the princess of wonderland. She lives in a world where magic is real and there are a lot of fantastical creatures, including caterpillars that can predict the future and card soldiers. On Alyss's seventh birthday her Aunt came and took over the palace by killing Alyss's parents and making Alyss and her bodyguard flee to England. However, Alyss and her bodyguard get separated and her bodyguard has to spend the next 13 years looking for her. While this is happening, a rebel group of people have formed in Wonderland and are fighting against the fake Queen. On Earth, Alyss was forced to forget about Wonderland and believe that magic wasn't real and that she had just made everything up. She was even going to marry a prince who had fallen in love with her. But, before that could happen, she was taken back to Wonderland where she had to relearn magic and everything again. Alyss ends up taking her throne back, but her evil Aunt manages to escape. It ends where Alyss now has to restore her kingdom and find out what happened to her Aunt.

I really enjoyed reading this book. I thought it was a lot more interesting than Alice in Wonderland, where I never really understood the story. This book makes a lot more sense and had a lot of enjoyable characters. Alyss's Aunt, named Redd, has an experienced assassin, known as the Cat. The Cat plays an important part in the story because he kills many people. He is mainly responsible for the death of Alyss's parents. He is also a real character because he tries to hide his mistakes from Redd so that he doesn't get in trouble. I thought that Alyss was a pretty real character. She had her doubts about her strength and she caved to peer pressure and she easily was angered and was not always easy to forgive. When she was seven she enjoyed playing tricks on people and causing trouble. Dodge was another character that was very real. He was very upset about the death of his father because of the Cat and ever since then has been thinking about revenge and only caring that he kills the Cat and not about the welfare of the kingdom as a whole.