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.