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A review by cabinet_13_review
The Wonderland Murders by Lanie Olson
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
This is described as a retelling. I'm not seeing it. A retelling would be taking a story and changing it into something different with clear lines of inspiration from the original.
Murders in Wonderland is still Through the Looking Glass but with a weird smut scene with the Bandersnatch. You can't just take a fairy tale and add some blood and violence and call it a retelling, in my opinion. There wasn't enough in here ro make it feel like a new version of a classic. I needed some more originality.
The dark and twisted Alice in Wonderland I feel like this was trying to be, has been done before...in a video game called Alice: Madness Returns where the whimsical land of Wonder is stripped and twisted into a macabre and horror filled land of terror that Alice must escape.
It has clear callbacks to the original story, but it's just not it for me.
There is just too much that doesn't go right for me in this to even call it decent. I'm sorely disappointed.
Murders in Wonderland is still Through the Looking Glass but with a weird smut scene with the Bandersnatch. You can't just take a fairy tale and add some blood and violence and call it a retelling, in my opinion. There wasn't enough in here ro make it feel like a new version of a classic. I needed some more originality.
The dark and twisted Alice in Wonderland I feel like this was trying to be, has been done before...in a video game called Alice: Madness Returns where the whimsical land of Wonder is stripped and twisted into a macabre and horror filled land of terror that Alice must escape.
It has clear callbacks to the original story, but it's just not it for me.
There is just too much that doesn't go right for me in this to even call it decent. I'm sorely disappointed.