Book Review: The Vanishing: A Wonderland Adventure
The Vanishing: A Wonderland Adventure by Rebekah Lewis
5 stars
Category: Adult
Note: Novella-length
Summary: During a bar night with her friends, Cadence was talked into doing a snipe hunt. During her drunken wandering through the nearby woods, she finds a cat with an oddly large grin. He deposits her at the feet of a handsome man dressed in odd, outdated buckled boots. He claims she’s in Wonderland and that he is Gareth, the slayer of the Jabberwocky and she has two days to decide if she wants to stay. Of course not, but Gareth really shouldn’t have to be tied to a lady of the red queen’s court and be forced to give up adventuring. And Cadence would quite like to have more adventure in her life.
Comments: Oh ugh. That was a horrible cliffhanger to leave us on. Thankfully I already have the next book in the series. I picked it up originally because I like the author and I can’t resist anything set in Wonderland. And I did love that the author tried to add as many names and creatures from Lewis Carrol’s Wonderland as possible without feeling the need to update into modern realism. She just let Wonderland be as crazy and exotic as the original Lewis Carrol story. So I thrilled at every mention of Jubjub birds and mome raths and bandersnatchs and, of course, the infamous Hatter and ever-present tea time. Though Cadence is Mary-Sue everyday person bland and author insert, I still loved the romance with Gareth. I also loved all of the crazy touches, like Hatter’s measuring. I am quite looking forward to the next book, since it’ll be a much longer foray int the author’s envisioning of Wonderland.
5 stars
Category: Adult
Note: Novella-length
Summary: During a bar night with her friends, Cadence was talked into doing a snipe hunt. During her drunken wandering through the nearby woods, she finds a cat with an oddly large grin. He deposits her at the feet of a handsome man dressed in odd, outdated buckled boots. He claims she’s in Wonderland and that he is Gareth, the slayer of the Jabberwocky and she has two days to decide if she wants to stay. Of course not, but Gareth really shouldn’t have to be tied to a lady of the red queen’s court and be forced to give up adventuring. And Cadence would quite like to have more adventure in her life.
Comments: Oh ugh. That was a horrible cliffhanger to leave us on. Thankfully I already have the next book in the series. I picked it up originally because I like the author and I can’t resist anything set in Wonderland. And I did love that the author tried to add as many names and creatures from Lewis Carrol’s Wonderland as possible without feeling the need to update into modern realism. She just let Wonderland be as crazy and exotic as the original Lewis Carrol story. So I thrilled at every mention of Jubjub birds and mome raths and bandersnatchs and, of course, the infamous Hatter and ever-present tea time. Though Cadence is Mary-Sue everyday person bland and author insert, I still loved the romance with Gareth. I also loved all of the crazy touches, like Hatter’s measuring. I am quite looking forward to the next book, since it’ll be a much longer foray int the author’s envisioning of Wonderland.