Insanity

He's done it again, another hit! Cameron Jace has masterfully blended the classical world of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland with his own non sensical version of a world, creating a thrilling adventure into madness. The story is well written, with solid characters created with such depth that you begin to doubt the sanity and clarity of their "true" identities yourself. Once again, I found myself falling in love with characters, like The Pillar, that have questionable qualities about them. This version of Alice is a girl that I love. She is not Carroll's timid young thing. She is both adorable in her "madness" yet terrifying. I want to hug her yet run from her at the same time. This is one of Jace's best books so far. I laughed out show more loud, felt sorrow, was appalled at times and was left craving more. I want more! show less

This book is complete insanity and I loved it! Alice is in an insane asylum. She killed her friends in a bus accident years ago. She has no memories except for the past week. Now she meets Professor Pillar, a serial killer that is also the caterpillar from Wonderland. He tells her the Cheshire cat is on a killing spree and convinces her to help save the victims. Alice meets the White Queen, Jack Diamonds and eventually the Cheshire cat himself during her twisted journey. Things get very confusing towards the end of the book and you have no idea what is real and what is not. Is it all in Alice's head? I guess I will just have to take another "mad" ride and read book 2 to find out.

{My thoughts} – Have I ever mentioned how much I love fairy-tale type books? Cameron Jace has become one of my favorite authors because of his unique ability to spin the classic fairy-tales into something modern that are worth reading. I cannot wait to get my hands, I mean my e-reader, I mean I can’t wait to read book two to this wonderfully mad written book!

Alice is depicted as a modern day loon that is kept in an underground cell at the Radcliffe Lunatic Asylum. She had been admitted there when she was seventeen and had killed her classmates on a bus, including her boyfriend Adam. She is in the Asylum because she was deemed insane. However, she isn’t sure she is insane even though everyone around her keeps telling her she show more is.

Throughout the book Alice goes on adventures and she meets new characters, some seem to know who she is and others are unsure. I enjoyed learning more about Wonderland and it’s monsters through her adventures as well as about her. Alice is an interesting individual that if I had to guess I would say needs some help in the social department, but from the way she is presented in the book, you’d consider her to be a social butterfly, even though she is always locked up and alone in her underground cell. She doesn’t have many friends, she doesn’t have many visitors but she makes the best of her situation.

If you want to know what happens to Alice, what her mad adventures are and what kind of person she has become, it’s a good idea to read this book. I promise you won’t be disappointed if you enjoy classic fairy-tales being retold in a different style. I have not personally read the original Alice in Wonderland story – I think I just may need to after reading this insane adventure that Cameron Jace has written. show less

This was a very unusual book. I enjoyed it for the psychological parallels, but it's very hard to describe. If you could weave together Alice in Wonderland and Hannibal, knit in a little One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and tie it off with Life of Pi you'd have this book.

Al principio me parecio fantastico y atrapante, la idea esta genial, pero a la mitad del libro derrapa, hay cosas que se disparan para cualquier lado y me parecieron sin sentido... una lastima ya que la idea estaba interesantisima para hacer con ella una buena historia.. eso si, tiene frases imperdibles!!

This was a fun junk food read. The book is gripping once you accept it as a reading cheat meal. Once I got to chapter 41 I was sucked in and couldn’t put it down. Most readers wont give a book that long however. The author created wonderful characters that you end up caring about. The images vary in how well the are described. The section about the belgum cat festival is the most heart-wrenching scenes in the whole book. I didn’t buy they were in an asylum considering the amount of freedom the patients really had. The author fell into the trap of many self-published authors. There wasn’t enough editing and not enough eyes to catch things like on the nose narration, telling instead of showing, or the problem with the omnipotent show more Carter Piller. Carter Piller made it too easy for Alice because he spoon fed her everything and told readers everything instead of letting us go on a journey. That being said I was drawn to these characters the way I am candy corn, I want more. With some fine tuning this author has a bright future, you cant teach how to have a good imagination but you can teach how to efficiently revise and edit. show less

Wow, I was very impressed by this book. It was exciting and gave just enough clues and twists that you just had to turn the page to find out what was gonna happen next.

It's been a very long time since I read Alice in Wonderland and I have a vague memory about the characters. I liked that the author told just enough about the characters in wonderland to get you familiar with who Alice was dealing with. I also love the history that they told about Lewis Carroll, I never knew any of that. And the way the Author weaved history with his storyline, it was all done beautifully.

I haven't read a story like this before and I would definitely recommend this book to anybody. It was new and fresh and I really enjoyed it.

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