This trilogy was recommended to my by a good friend. And since I trust said friend's tastes, I went and found the entire set on ebay and bought them without knowing much more than what little I read on wiki about em, and my friends recommendation, lol.
The first book I started one day and completed the next (if not for having to get up early the next morning I likely would have stayed up and finished that same night) And I think it's safe to say I liked it, lol.
The book is a twist on the Alice in Wonderland story. If nothing else, I enjoy a good twist, lol. Which has me thinking of the books by Gail Carson Levine, (Fairest, etc).
It's a good twist, and although not a big fan of Alice in Wonderland, I DID enjoy this book. The book follows Alyss as her parents are murdered by her aunt, and she ends up exiled from Wonderland to Earth for 13 yrs, when she's finally found by her mother's bodyguard and returned to Wonderland to try and reclaim her throne.
It's not an overly DEEP book in my opinion.. there is so much going on and the story moves along at such a pace that the reader doesn't really get Overly involved with the characters. I'm finding that it's not until... about halfway through the second book or so that I feel really involved with the characters. And even then.. Not saying this is a bad thing, just.. yeah. Just an aspect I have found with it. I find myself reading not because I feel for the characters, and want to see them victorious/crushed, but more because I just want to see what happens.
I found the start of the book quite violent.. descriptively violent, but as I've progressed through, it tamed down quite a bit. There's still violence, but the way it's written is with less description, so I didn't find myself wincing all the time like at the start.
I'm not sure what else I could really say about this one, it was, really, a light read, but an enjoyable one overall.
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