Audiobook9 hours
Alice Takes Back Wonderland
Written by David D. Hammons
Narrated by Mary Sarah
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
After ten years of being told she can't tell the difference between real life and a fairy tale, Alice finally stops believing in Wonderland. So when the White Rabbit shows up at her house, Alice thinks she's going crazy. Only when the White Rabbit kicks her down the rabbit hole does Alice realize that the magical land she visited as a child is real. But all is not well in Wonderland.
The Ace of Spades has taken over Wonderland and is systematically dismantling all that makes it wonderful. Plain is replacing wondrous, logical is replacing magical, and reason is destroying madness. Alice decides she must help the Mad Hatter and all those fighting to keep Wonderland wonderful. But how can she face such danger when she is just a girl?
Alice must journey across the stars to unite an army. She discovers that fairy tales are real in the magical world beyond the rabbit hole. But they are not the fairy tales she knows. Fairy tales have dangers and adventures of their own, and Alice must overcome the trials of these old stories if she wants to unite the lands against Ace.
With the help of Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Snow White, and heroes old and new, Alice may have the strength to take back Wonderland.
The Ace of Spades has taken over Wonderland and is systematically dismantling all that makes it wonderful. Plain is replacing wondrous, logical is replacing magical, and reason is destroying madness. Alice decides she must help the Mad Hatter and all those fighting to keep Wonderland wonderful. But how can she face such danger when she is just a girl?
Alice must journey across the stars to unite an army. She discovers that fairy tales are real in the magical world beyond the rabbit hole. But they are not the fairy tales she knows. Fairy tales have dangers and adventures of their own, and Alice must overcome the trials of these old stories if she wants to unite the lands against Ace.
With the help of Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Snow White, and heroes old and new, Alice may have the strength to take back Wonderland.
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Reviews for Alice Takes Back Wonderland
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was a truly great book! This has actually been one of my favorite retellings! So in this book, the Ace of Spades has taken over Wonderland and he is removing all the wonder from everything including the creatures. Ace wants to make Wonderland more like the world where Alice is from and he sends the White Rabbit into Alice's world to collect weapons and such. While the White Rabbit is there, he brings Alice back to Wonderland in hopes that she can stop Ace. After Alice's first trip to Wonderland as a child, her parents, doctors, and school counselors spend years convincing Alice that Wonderland was just a dream and that it was ADHD complicated by a serious case of schizophrenia that caused her to see Wonderland in the first place. Eventually Alice begins to believe them, so when the White Rabbit takes her back to Wonderland, she thinks she is going crazy and having an episode. She very quickly realizes that Wonderland is actually real and she isn't crazy after all, but she doesn't like what is happening to Wonderland and wants to help. The Mad Hatter sends her off in a flying machine to go and gather an army to defeat Ace. Along her way, she meets all kinds of different fairy tale (also mythological and folk tale) people and creatures like the Gingerbread Man, Snow White, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Davy Crockett, and so on. I really loved how all of these stories wove together and how certain characters were parts of multiple fairy tales. (If you watch the show Once Upon A Time, it works a lot like how Rumpelstiltskin was also the Beast from Beauty and the Beast and was also the crocodile from Peter Pan.) It wasn't all happy endings though because in war people die and in this fairy tale world that was no exception. While I was reading this book, it was totally playing out in my head as a movie, but the style of movie kept changing in my head. There were times that I saw this playing out as the original Disney animated characters. Other times I saw it playing out in my head as live action characters, and other times it was more CGI like Shrek! I highly recommend this book!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I could have said...a girl travels to another world, incites a war in an effort to restore what's been taken, all while trying to get back to where she was taken. It sums it up in a round about way but much like the Ace of Spades, all the WONDER is sucked right out of it. So, I was back to square one...how oh HOW to share this tale!
I could have also went along the lines of...there's this girl, named Alice. Remember her? Well she gets kicked down a rabbit hole by her formerly good friend W.R. (White Rabbit) and lands in a topsy turvy version of what was called Wonderland. I know, right? How could it POSSIBLY get any more crazy? Well, it does. She meets the new ruler, the old ruler, the memory of the Cheshire Cat, the Hatter before and after the wonder is sucked right out of him, and a whole cast of Wonderland familiars. Then, oh but then she travels to Never Never Land and meets Peter (much more swoon worthy here) and the Lost Boys and Tinkerbelle who isn't really...and the crocodile who isn't really...and then Hook who is REALLY...and with that, I've no longer written a review, but another version of the book when I finished my verbal barrage.
In reality, the best I could do without giving everything away is this. It's a Young Adult Fantasy novel for those of the target age and WELL beyond. The perfect fit for those that aren't usually into this particular sub genre, such as myself. In conclusion, a magical voyage through the pages that reminds us that books are powerful portals to worlds and adventures untold...if only we've the imagination to explore them.
***review copy received in exchange for my honest review...full post con be seen on my site*** - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/54.5 starsContrary to what you may have read or had read to you, Alice did not live in 1870’s England. She actually came from recently modern day Missouri, Strafford to be precise. Ever since she fell out of the rabbit hole (that exited through the large curved mirror) and onto the sidewalk in front of Lew’s Drive-Thru her family has been concerned with her tales of Wonderland. Ten years on she’s taking little blue pills and starting to believe Wonderland was all in her imagination (or so she repeatedly tells herself, especially when she asks questions and her mother gives her “that” look) when the white rabbit appears in her parent’s bedroom and leads her back through the rabbit hole.Wonderland is no longer…it’s a place without a name, a place that’s systematically having all the wonder sucked out of it and it’s inhabitants by the Ace Of Spades. The Mad Hatter, one of the last hold outs, sends Alice off in his flying machine to the second star to the right and straight on till morning in search of Sleeping Beauty. Alice learns that fairy tales are indeed real, though not quite the way they are in the stories.Fantasy lovers rejoice. ALICE TAKES BACK WONDERLAND is a wildly imaginative and creative melding of fondly remembered fairy tales. However, they all have twists, turns, and spins that readers were unaware of; they’re the same yet not because they’re real. This is what I call high fantasy and should delight fantasy and fairy tale lovers alike. Underneath the hijinks, adventures, and general mayhem created by saving the day, or not, is a more serious thread. How we, as adults, lose the wonder and joy so inherent in children. How much better would we and the world be if we could grow up, be responsible, but still have that wonder, that freedom of imagination and simplicity? Just imagine it….Do Alice and her fellow fairytale denizens manage to save Wonderland from the Ace of Spades? Does Alice ever return to modern day Missouri where they ply her with little blue pills to make Wonderland go away? The answer to these questions and more can only be found in ALICE TAKES BACK WONDERLAND, so what are you waiting for?Reviewed for Novels Alive TV & Manic Readers