This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of Underland, as well as a girl’s pangs of first love and independence. Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of insects and flowers-precisely the affliction that arrived her mother within a mental hospital years before. This family members curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Ventures in Wonderland. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. For now.

When her mother’s mental approximately Splintered health takes a turn for the worse, Alyssa learns that what she thought was fiction is situated in terrifying reality. The true Wonderland is a place significantly darker and more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever allow on. There, Alyssa must pass some tests, including draining an ocean of Alice’s tears, waking the slumbering tea party, and subduing a vicious bandersnatch, to repair Alice’s errors and save her family. She must also decide whom to trust: Jeb, her gorgeous best friend and key crush, or the sexy but suspicious Morpheus, her guidebook through Wonderland, and also require dark motives of his personal.