Title: Wonderland

Edited by: Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane

Publisher: Titan Books 2019

Genre: Fantasy Short Stories

Pages: 384

Rating: 4/5 stars

Reading Challenges: Summer TBR

Join Alice as she is thrown into the whirlwind of Wonderland

Within these pages you'll find myriad approaches to Alice, from horror to historical, taking us from the nightmarish reaches of the imagination to tales that will shock, surprise and tug on the heart-strings. So, it's time now to go down the rabbit hole, or through the looking-glass or... But no, wait. By picking up this book and starting to read it you're already there, can't you see?

As with all short story collections, this volume was a mixed bag, but overall I liked it better than most. It’s no secret that Alice in Wonderland is one of my favorite books. Having a collection of Wonderland related stories as the connecting factor gives this collection an extra star in my book. We get a wide variety of styles and genres within these pages. My favorites were the stories that leaned into the horror of Wonderland. Those seemed to me as the most likely if there really was a Wonderland. I especially loved “There were No Birds to Fly” by MR Carey, “The White Queen’s Pawn” by Genevieve Cogman, and “The Hunting of the Jabberwock” by Jonathan Green. I had picked this up on whim, but so glad that I did.

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