J. E.

I normally don’t like these “edgy” Alice in Wonderland retellings. They’re all the same thing and the concept has gotten old. Except this one. This one adds what I feel is a brilliant new spin on the concept of gritty rewrites. It takes a far more realistic and terrifying idea of Alice and her “adventures”. While managing to incorporate all the important elements of the original story, this one spins a legitimately scary and unsettling tale of what Alice really endured. It stayed on my brain for days afterward and I’ve since reread it again. Christine is extremely talented and I’ll definitely be checking out her other works in the future

The summary and the content don’t match up at all. What seems like a gritty murder thriller turns into a tedious, jargon-heavy dialogue dump that somehow talks for hours without saying anything. It takes a hundred pages to leave the morgue, board the helicopter, take off, fly to the location, and locate the bodies. The actual autopsies of the bodies doesn’t happen until close to halfway through the book. By then, We’ve spent more time on random equipment checks, random dogfights with rival pilots and a Bigfoot footprint that goes absolutely nowhere. The entire first half of the book could’ve been covered in less than thirty pages. The pacing is absurd and the story is lackluster. I won’t be checking this author out again, sadly.