As a reader obsessed with everything Alice, I had this one on my most anticipated list so I was glad to be able to snatch it up as an audio offering from my local library. It was a bit of a slow starter and I did actually contemplate setting it aside, but I'm glad I persisted. Once the games really got started, the plot took off in a hurry and got me very invested.

This is a clever, futuristic and fantastical retelling of Alice in Wonderland that combines elements of the original with moments and structures occasionally reminiscent of The Hunger Games and Harry Potter. There is a lot of introspection and underlying allegory/symbolism that I found intriguing. I did not realize going in that this is actually noted as Christian Fiction, but I will say that it is not heavy-handed in anyway and most readers likely won't feel like the religious themes are anything beyond what you would expect in any other fiction novel.

There are a lot of very clever references and I quite enjoyed the character development. The ending is a whopper of a cliffhanger and I am definitely needing to read the second novel soon.