Gore was not spared: in Alyssa’s trip through Wonderland, the creatures and events that took place made me cringe, both in horror and fright. Another thing that made Splintered rather unsettling was that craziness runs in her family.īesides the creepy factor, the book also included the air of mystery – riddles, memories and lullabies that all piece together and unravel the story. Also, I can imagine from my mind’s eye her art works, and they’re simply gorgeous. I’m really amazed by how she isn’t afraid of them, especially when they’re beetles and spiders. Alyssa has this… thing with killing bugs (because she can hear them talking, so killing shuts them up), and using them as part of her art pieces.

The first thing the book did was to creep me out. And who would’ve thought about writing the story of Alice’s great-great-great-granddaughter, Alyssa? Genius! I just love how it’s so whimsical and fun, with a dash of madness. Well, one of the reasons why I picked this book was because I’m Alice in Wonderland-crazy. Splintered is packed with so much awesomeness, I don’t even know where to start. She must also decide whom to trust: Jeb, her gorgeous best friend and secret crush, or the sexy but suspicious Morpheus, her guide through Wonderland, who may have dark motives of his own.

There, Alyssa must pass a series of tests, including draining an ocean of Alice’s tears, waking the slumbering tea party, and subduing a vicious bandersnatch, to fix Alice’s mistakes and save her family. The real Wonderland is a place far darker and more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever let on. When her mother’s mental health takes a turn for the worse, Alyssa learns that what she thought was fiction is based in terrifying reality. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers-precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before.

Unhinged book ag howard