Readability: 4/5
Plot: 3/5
Recommend: Yes

Heartless is a fairytale retelling of Alice in Wonderland, except it is from the point of view of the Queen of Hearts before she became the queen. It details her journey towards becoming a queen and explains her motives and reasons for how she acts in Alice in Wonderland.

Everybody already knows that the Queen of Hearts is not the nicest character in Alice in Wonderland (unless you think beheading is the pinacle of friendship). And since this book details how she became the antagonist, you obviously can conclude without reading anything to know something bad happened to her. And if you read the summary/synopsis, you know that something bad will happen with her love life. Which is (guess what?) exactly what happens. Despite this cliche, this isn't a bad book.

I will admit I love fairytale retellings and seeing new/multiple sides to the same story. Despite this, Heartless is not one of my favorite books. There is nothing in this book that stuck out to me and make me think, "Wow, that was so good. I'm going to rate this five stars". Instead, I feel like the beginning of the book was slow and insignificant and it was only halfway through this book did I start to really get into the story and lose track of how much time I spent reading. Then at the end, it was quite boring. I felt like the action was done and there was nothing to add/change since we knew how it was supposed to end. Overall, I enjoyed the book, it just didn't blow me away.