She lives in Brooklyn with a husband, two children, a cat, a part-time dog, three fish and five coffee trees she insists will start producing beans any day. She also has short stories in Geektastic and Who Done It and a new series of reimagined fairy tales coming out, starting with A Whole New World-a retelling of Aladdin. Finally she caved into fate and wrote Snow and Rx under the name Tracy Lynn, followed by The Nine Lives of Chloe King series under her real name, because by then the assassins hunting her were all dead. And if you love fairy tale retellings and Disney movies, I strongly recommend picking this one up.Īfter the sort of introverted childhood you would expect from a writer, Liz earned a degree in Egyptology at Brown University and then promptly spent the next ten years producing video games. I did still like this book overall, and if this is indicative of what can be found in other Twisted Tales, I can’t wait to try more. While I do appreciate when chapter transitions can create tension, I felt like it sometimes ended in an awkward place, thus not stimulating interest in what might happen next. I did have some issues with the structural choices, particularly in terms of chapters ending abruptly, and then picking up in the next. ![]() Even while there is an adventure with a clear end goal and the Queen of Hearts is clearly more malicious then we remember, it is rooted in fun, and I couldn’t help cracking up on occasion, especially as the outside narrator interjects, particularly with their commentary at the beginning and end. Meanwhile, Braswell perfectly manages to merge the nonsense of the original with darker elements that don’t overly impact the message that Wonderland is supposed to be wacky. And this one was a great one for me to start off with, since the source material (both Lewis Carroll’s Alice stories and the 1951 film) are absolute twisted madness already, and while I did like it, also felt that the Burton film compromised that a little bit to make a marketable action flick. Unbirthday is my first foray into the Twisted Tales anthology series, however I’ve long been interested in the concept of it. Author: Liz Braswell Narrator: Lorna Bennett Publisher: Disney Audio Length: 12.75 hours Series: A Twisted Tale Series Release Date: September 2020 Format: Unabridged Audiobook Delivery: Instant Download ISBN: 9781094194950. I received an ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Returning to the place of nonsense from her childhood, Alice finds herself on a mission to stop the Queen of Hearts’ tyrannical rule and to find her place in both worlds. And as Alice develops a self-portrait, she finds the most disturbing image of all-a badly-injured dark-haired girl asking for Alice’s help. There’s something eerily off about them, even for Wonderland creatures. She’s also interested in learning more about the young lawyer she met there, but just because she’s curious, of course, not because he was sweet and charming.īut when Alice develops photographs she has recently taken about town, familiar faces of old suddenly appear in the place of her actual subjects-the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar. Yao’s teashop or to visit the children playing in the Square. She’d rather spend golden afternoons with her trusty camera or in her aunt Vivian’s lively salon, ignoring her sister’s wishes that she stop all that “nonsense” and become a “respectable” member of society. What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late?Īlice is different than other eighteen-year-old ladies in Kexford, which is perfectly fine with her. ![]() Returning to the place of nonsense from her childhood, Alice finds herself on a mission to stop the Queen of Hearts' tyrannical rule and to find her place in both worlds. ![]() And as Alice develops a self-portrait, she finds the most disturbing image of all-a badly-injured dark-haired girl asking for Alice's help. There's something eerily off about them, even for Wonderland creatures. She's also interested in learning more about the young lawyer she met there, but just because she's curious, of course, not because he was sweet and charming.īut when Alice develops photographs she has recently taken about town, familiar faces of old suddenly appear in the place of her actual subjects -the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar. ![]() Alice is happy to meander to Miss Yao's teashop or to visit the children playing in the Square. She'd rather spend golden afternoons with her trusty camera or in her aunt Vivian's lively salon, ignoring her sister's wishes that she stop all that "nonsense" and become a "respectable" member of society. Alice is different than other eighteen-year-old ladies in Kexford, which is perfectly fine with her.
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