Book Review: Splintered

Splintered

By: A.G. Howard

Pages: 400

Read: 9/10/14

"For sixteen years, Alyssa Gardner has lived with the stigma of being descended from Alice Liddell—the real life inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s famed novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. But cruel jokes about dormice and tea parties can’t compare to the fact that Alyssa hears the whispers of bugs and flowers... the same quirk which sent her mother to a mental institution years before.

When her mother takes a turn for the worse and the whispers grow too strong for Alyssa to bear, she seeks the origins of their family curse. A set of heirlooms and a moth tied to an unusual website lead Alyssa and her gorgeous best friend / secret crush, Jeb, down the rabbit hole into the real Wonderland, a place more twisted and eerie than Lewis Carroll ever let on.

There, creepy counterparts of the original fairytale crew reveal the purpose for Alyssa’s journey, and unless she fixes the things her great-great-great grandmother Alice put wrong, Wonderland will have her head."

{GoodReads}

This is a hard book to review because I both liked and disliked it.  I really loved the story.  I loved the characters and the plot and the twist on an old classic.  I loved that there were familiar scenes in this book and that there was a darker twist on wonderland.  The author really made it her own which I loved because that could definitely be a hard thing to do.  I did not love the writing.  I don't know what it was but this book was hard for me to read.  Honestly, I can't even pinpoint exactly what it was that made it so hard for me, but I just didn't like it. (I'm so helpful, I know).  I did like that with the way this book ended I don't feel like I need to read the rest of the series, because I honestly don't know if I'd be able to get through it.

Because the story itself was great, I gave this book a 4/5 on GoodReads.