Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Teaser Tuesday #6: The Dark Side of Wonderland!



Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Ambrosia of The Purple Booker.  Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 





 

Title: Alice

Author: Christina Henry

Year Published: 2015

Publisher: Ace Books

Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Horror

Reading Level: Adult




A mind-bending new novel inspired by the twisted and wondrous works of Lewis Carroll...

In a warren of crumbling buildings and desperate people called the Old City, there stands a hospital with cinderblock walls which echo the screams of the poor souls inside.

In the hospital, there is a woman. Her hair, once blond, hangs in tangles down her back. She doesn’t remember why she’s in such a terrible place. Just a tea party long ago, and long ears, and blood…

Then, one night, a fire at the hospital gives the woman a chance to escape, tumbling out of the hole that imprisoned her, leaving her free to uncover the truth about what happened to her all those years ago.

Only something else has escaped with her. Something dark. Something powerful.

And to find the truth, she will have to track this beast to the very heart of the Old City, where the rabbit waits for his Alice.



"Everything had happened just as she she said, when she could say something besides "Rabbit." She and Dor went into the Old City for Dor's birthday.  Sixteenth birthday. Sixteen candles on your cake, a sliver of cake and a cup of tea for you, my dear.  They both went in, but only Alice came out.  Two weeks later came Alice, covered in blood, babbling about tea and a rabbit, wearing a dress that wasn't hers.  Red running down the insides of her legs and blue marks on her thighs where fingers had been."
This book is pretty intense and different from what I usually read about "Alice in Wonderland!" Now, I have seen darker versions of "Alice in Wonderland" before (Tim Burton's version anyone?), but this version sounds like it's going to be the darkest one yet!

Do you have a book that you are currently reading that you would like to show to everyone else?  Please feel free to post your Teaser Tuesday in the comments below and I'll check them out! 


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