Looking Glass (The Chronicles of Alice)

"Looking Glass" - thankfully - has the same tone and feel as "Alice" did. While less gory, "Looking Glass" has plenty of creepy part that make your skin crawl. For those that struggled with the sexual assault and sex slavery of "Alice," this book (no spoilers) alludes to pedophilia but nothing actually takes place along those lines. All 4 of the novellas are good reads. They are long enough to develop into their own stories and stand alone. No they are not in chronological order necessarily but it doesn't matter. You have to read "Alice" and "Red Queen" first to understand them. Even if you've heard bad things about "Red Queen" (and there were many disappointing things about it) the stories do talk about events that happened in "Red Queen" enough that you'd be confused, especially pertaining to Hatcher. "Lovely Creature" was a true "Alice" story in every way. "Girl in Amber" was a bit hard to picture at time because it was a bit trippy like the goblin stuff in "Red Queen" but much creeper and not annoying. "When I First Came to Town" was a great new twist since it was from Hatcher's point of view and we finally got to see what happened leading up to him being with Hattie. "The Mercy Seat" was creepy in a different way than "Alice," can't explain without spoilers so I'll just say it's creepy. And we get the ending we'd hoped for for Alice and Hatcher, or at least the ending I'd hoped for. If you were disappointed/frustrated/angry by "Red Queen" and weren't sure if "Looking Glass" was worth trying, I will tell you it is. You won't be disappointed like you were with "Red Queen."

I was recommended the Alice books by a client of mine & after reading the 1st book I knew automatically I was addicted. Looking Glass gives you a small look into some backgrounds and a glimpse into other places you wouldn’t get to learn about through the Other books. You get to see what Alice and Hatcher are up to after everything that happened in Red Queen, and find out about their ending. You get a peek into Alice’s family before Hatcher, and of course Chesire comes into play. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It’s not as brutal as the previous 2 but definitely fits in the story.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, same as the rest of Christina Henry's books, but I feel there should be another addition to explain what happened to Elizabeth.

Yes my alice collection is complete! I have been waiting to get this book and finally was able to. It's in four parts and offers insight to two arcs and mini adventures in the other two. Love henry.

Loved it!

Read it, loved it, bought one for a gift, she already got books 1 and 2 as gifts. Alice fans both of us

I’ve made my peace with the fact that these books are NOT related to the glorious Alice In Wonderland stories at all. I have loved Alice In Wonderland and onward since childhood and return to read the stories over and over, reading from the same volume I did as a child, the volume which I kept and from which I continue to read them all still.This book is a collection of four stories, four novellas, if you will. All four are interesting enough, a distraction, related to the first two books in this ‘trilogy.’ Having now read all three books, I don’t feel this collection should be called a trilogy. This is two books followed by a series of short stories that are connected to the two books.Lovely Creature, the story about Elizabeth, is interesting and I was ready for more about this young lady and her discoveries, some of which took up an awful lot of space in the telling for no apparent reason. I’d be interested in reading about Elizabeth’s ongoing story. But, as it stands here, the story is overly detailed in unnecessary places and lacking in important places. And then it just ends. We see the end of Elizabeth’s adventure, strictly speaking, but there is so much more needed, including some resolution about what Elizabeth did after she completed this task. Frustrating!Girl In Amber, the second story, which picks up the story of Alice and Hatcher right after the events of Red Queen, is strange, but it’s an adventure for Alice and I was invested. Hatcher hardly plays in to the story, so the summary on the back about the place which Alice and Hatcher have discovered is not an accurate summary; it’s a story about Alice; I’ll leave it at that. The story is just… eh, ok, I guess.Story three about Hatcher before he was Hatcher, when he was a late teenaged Nicholas, was the story I most wanted to read so I was happy to arrive at this story, When I First Came To Town. The story was good, pulling me along, keeping me interested and (crescendo!), blah… We’ve read the first two books and we know where we are going so when that happened, when the momentum was built and the details I wanted were to arrive - who, what, when, where, why, how - (Tell me! Please! I’m begging you! Tell me!) what we know from books one and two… happened. Really?!I was irritated by the time I got to the final tale, The Mercy Seat, but that story was mercifully short and predictable and when it thankfully ended, there was the back cover page; book read; put it somewhere on the book case. I just checked, before finishing this review and there it was, the last sentence, two words in quotation marks and…I didn’t think much of the first book, offering a kind three stars as a round up from a two, perhaps a polite two-plus star effort. The second book was decent, certainly worth three stars. This book’s rating is back to book one territory, receiving a kind three stars that are rounded up from two star, maybe two-plus stars, kindly offered.The best thing that could come of this book, this series, this ‘trilogy’ - my eye’s are rolling - is to see Elizabeth’s story continued in a good full length story of her own.

Unlike the first two, this is more like an episodic novel starting with a little girl named Elizabeth who got herself mixed up in the Old City all because of her darnedest little curiosity of a bird-man who went flitting about somewhere. Then we returned to Alice... I strongly recommend this recent one.

Finished the Alice in wonderland chronicles with this book. What a series. I loved all three books.When I heard that the last book was four short stories (about 100 pages each) i was a little hesitant. I wanted it to be a full book with the characters.I was pleasantly surprised how much the short stories were. It didn’t bother me that it was short stories because the stories are that good.you won’t be disappointed in the Alice in wonderland chronicles.

War ein Geschenk. Die Beschenkte hat sich sehr darüber gefreut.

A dark alternate retelling of classic stories with great imagination. A true page turner!

4 short Novellas, expanding the universe of the Alice duology, very good.

Easy read. Loving the series so far!