Mad About the Hatter

This was really disappointing. I was excited as a huge fan of both Alice in Wonderland and MM romance, but this book was just not structured very well and the characters are very poorly-written parodies of Alice characters rather than feeling like an extension of the original books. The timeline also doesn't make any sense as this is placed in modern-day England but it's still supposedly the original Alice. The writing style was all over the place - sometimes emulating the original books and sometimes dipping into more contemporary voice that would make sense as the book was placed in modern times, but it was inconsistent and therefore distracting. The writer spends more time on descriptions of original areas of Wonderland (why even make it Wonderland if you're just going to create your own version?) rather than on character development, which was sorely lacking. None of the characters were likeable. Overall this is just a crap book, but I finished it just in case something happened plus it was easy to read - but don't waste your time.

The madder the better. And this is right on par with the twisted logic of Alice in Wonderland.


4 Stars for this deliciously weird book


I received a free ARC via Netgalley in exchange for a honest review.

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If you want to survive in Wonderlend you have to embrace the madness.



This time it isn't Alice that goes down the rabbit hole, but her younger brother Henry. Boy Alice, as people in Wonderland tend to call him is not happy when he wakes up to see a giant caterpillar smoking something that surely is a mind altering substance. The tales Alice told everyone always sounded like unbelievable lies to Henry but there's only so much denial Henry tell himself until he has to admit that what he sees isn't some drug induced hallucination.

The Hatter is held prisoner in the Red Queen's dungeon and has pretty much given up hope of being able to keep his attractive head on his shoulders. So it comes at a bit of a surprise, though a very positive on when he is send to find Boy Alice and bring him in front of the Red Queen who looks very much forward to seeing his head roll. For this service Hatter will get to keep his own head attached to his body.

What starts a companionship born through need and circumstances quickly changes into something else and Hatter really doesn't want to exchange Henry's head for his own anymore. Now they're on the run and nowhere seems to be save.


It would probably be a lot more awesome if I'd reread Alice in Wonderland before moving on to this one, alas it's been so long since I read it that my memory is rather hazy on what was going on. The weirdness of Wonderland is wonderfully portrayed in Dakota Chase's book. The twisted logic of everything is just lovely. If I ever have the wish to read Alice again I'll surely reread this one as well.
As the flow of the story feels very much like a fairy tale I won't deduct stars for some things I would in your average novel, like some jumps in the character development.

All in all it was a very nice read, perfect if you like Alice in Wonderland or just want to read something short or fairy tale like.