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Wonderland by Jennifer Hillier
4.0
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated

I love the way that Jennifer Hiller tells a story! It’s creepy and feels realistic enough to be believable but it’s outrageous enough to be obviously a work of fiction. 

Wonderland revolves around an amusement park of the same name - and it has a Clown Museum. That’s right. Clown. Museum. But even creepier, is the dead body that shows up around opening day, which results in an investigation by the new deputy chief in town and she isn’t handling the park with kid gloves like the other law enforcement in town. She’s new and cares more about justice and solving the missing persons cases and the murder case than saving face and protecting the park. 

While I was confused initially with where this was going, I caught on and then couldn’t put it down. I had to know what was going on in this small, corrupt-appearing town (I love those kind of stories honestly!). The ending came on a bit quicker than I was prepared for but I’m not mad about it. I was ready to know what happened, but I did feel the rest of the story was more filled out than the ending. 

The audio version, having released 8 years after the initial ebook, was absolutely fantastic. I love the way the narrator handled the story and brought the suspense along with the story. It was perfect. 

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