Book 3: ArchEnemy

In the third and final installment of this trilogy, enemies are in the queendom and imagination is gone. The Club Family has a cult of anti-imaginationists who want to overthrow the rule of Alyss. Meanwhile outside the city, Arch and Redd are still planning to steal the throne, until Arch figures out that Redd is without her imagination and betrays her. Back in Wondertropolis, Alyss is going to an anti-imaginationist seminar to see how the general public is taking the movement. Alyss gets captured and sent to a limbo coop. Where she and Dodge team up with other prisoners and create a plot to escape the coop. At this point imagination is slowly returning to the land, and Arch attacks Wondertropolis again and wins! He takes control of the queendom, now a kingdom, and plans to eliminate all imagination forever. Redd and Alyss go into a shaky alliance with each other and plan to overthrow Arch. Redd takes her top few assassins and goes to where the Heart Crystal is, a place on the outskirts of Wonderland called the Iron Butterfly. A massive battle ends up going on here when Arch calls in reinforcements, and Alyss joins in with her small army and people she freed from the limbo coops. Alyss, in a last ditch effort to stop the destruction, blows up  the Heart Crystal. This causes an event called Everqueen, in which imagination is released forever into Wonderland and all the neighboring worlds, including Earth. In the end, Arch is defeated and peace is returned to Wonderland. Oh, and Alyss and Dodge get married.


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Book 2: Seeing Redd

In the second book of this series, Alyss is Queen of Wonderland, but not everything is peaceful. Practitioner's of Black Imagination are causing havoc around the kingdom, and it's all Alyss can do to keep relative peace in Wonderland. Then the Glass Eyes show up, once Redd's faithful footmen, they are now attacking military outposts on the outskirts of Wonderland. But this time instead of Redd leading them, it's the leader of Wonderland's neighboring country, Boarderland, King Arch, who is against Wonderland being a queendom and believes men should have all the power. Meanwhile back on Earth, a painter was giving birth to Redd and her assassin, the Cat, on a piece of canvas. Redd escapes the canvas and starts to mass an army to invade Wonderland. She ends up going back to Wonderland and joining with Arch in a conspiracy against Alyss. Arch ends up kidnapping Alyss's new bodyguard, Homburg Molly, and launches an all out attack on Wondertropolis itself using the Glass Eyes. Alyss defends against the attack. Redd then launches a joint attack with Arch on Wondertroplis. All seems lost for Alyss and her followers but then Hatter Madigan sabotages WILMA, Arch's weapon of mass destruction, and in the process eliminates all imagination is Wonderland. Arch and Redd end up retreating and the queendom is safe, but without imagination.

Book 1: The Looking Glass Wars

  In the first book of the Looking Glass Wars trilogy, 7 year old Alyss Heart, the heir to Wonderland's throne, suddenly has her whole world turned upside down when her evil Aunt Redd kills her parents in a successful attempt to steal Wonderland's throne.This book is spit into three parts. The first part details how Redd killed Alyss's parents and chased Alyss into the Pool of Tears, where she was transported to Earth with her sword-slinging bodyguard Hatter Madigan, who is my personal favorite character in the book. In the second part, Alyss has grown up and convinced herself that Wonderland isn't real and that it was all just her imagination. This whole part is about Alyss adjusting to life on Earth and forgetting Wonderland. Towards the end of this part, Alyss ends up meeting a figure from her past, her old love interest Dodge Anders. Dodge ends up taking Alyss back to Wonderland where she feels like a stranger in her own land. In part three, Alyss has to navigate the Looking Glass Maze to gain access to her imagination. this part concludes with a fight between Alyss and Redd in which Redd ends up jumping into the Heart Crystal, where she disappears. I think that this book does a great job in showing life from a 7-year old girl's perspective. This book also does an amazing job of detailing the love life between two people, one who is still in shock of finding herself in a new land, and one who is struggling with his hate for the one who killed his father, and his love for someone who he hasn't seen in 14 years. the character development in this book in exceptional. However, Redd is just portrayed as a shallow she-devil that no one likes. I would have preferred if Redd had some more depth to her character. Other than that, this book is simply divine and I would recommend it to anyone who likes fantasy books.