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"But, there was no denying the euphoric disposition of this girl; she had a mischievous charm. I wouldn't have said that I necessarily liked it, but it was intriguing. She was intriguing...and new. For a town whose newspaper's biggest story was the harvest report, having a new girl in school would most likely be headlined on The Gossiper's front page."

Death of the Mad Hatter

by Sarah J. Pepper

This retelling of the fairy tale Alice in Wonderland tickles my fancy in many ways. A boy with a girls name, and a girl who goes by a boys name hold the fate of Wonderland in their hands. Filled with nonsense and candy crunching I found myself having to show great self control in not skipping ahead to read the ending. Painted with just the right amount of budding romance and young adult angst Sarah J Pepper creates a version of Wonderland that kept me reading. I've spent much of my adult years remembering things that captivated me as a teenager and wondering about different ways Fairy Tales could go has been a big part of that train of thoughts. In this tale romance and feelings pepper the quest for the truth and set into motion a prophecy that impacts all of Wonderland. I couldn't put this book down!


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Death of the Mad Hatter Twisted Fairytale Confessions Volume 1 Sarah J Pepper Deb Lebakken Heather Banta Emily DeHaan Sandra Long Josh Wilcoxon Amanda Boer Angelique Verver Sarah Storm 9781492823919 Books Reviews

My Initial Reaction...
Death of a Mad Hatter surprised me! I'm not a big Wonderland fan, but I was told that I just HAD to read it and I'm really glad I did. The characters were fantastic and Wonderland had just enough to entertain without overwhelming those of us who aren't die hard Wonderland fans.

The Characters...
I can't express how much I loved Alice Mae, sometimes called Al so that she would be a girl with a boy's name. See there's this prophecy and part of it had to be fulfilled by a girl with a boy's name and ta-da, Alice Mae gets renamed. She's a really great character - very multifaceted. When I first met her I thought, "man, this girl's nuts" but I quickly grew to like her quirky personality. Quirky's the word too - see that cover? That's Alice Mae - you see some weirdness and some fierceness all bundled up in that picture and it totally nails her. The story is told only half from her point of view, but I loved getting to see how she got into her current situation and the marvelous way that she's so conflicted and confused about things. And with that prophecy you totally understand why... I'd be messed up too.

The other half is told from the point of view of Ryley - the boy with a girl's name. And yep, that's significant too. And yes, because of a prophecy. Prophecies play a big part in Death of the Mad Hatter, but in a marvelous, you want to figure out what's going to happen way, not in a man that prophecy is annoying way (you've read those books too, right? not just me?). Anyway, Ryley was an okay character. He was well-written, but seriously got on my nerves. He's so all over the place with his feelings and the way he acted toward several of the girls - including Alice Mae - really annoyed me because it was just WRONG. Sometimes the reasons worked for me, but most the time it made him just not very likeable (for me). And yet, I found myself totally swept away with his and Alice Mae's relationship - I WANTED them together, I liked them as a couple and I liked him better when he wasn't fighting his feelings for her.

The Story...
I think for any fairy tale retelling you're looking for the ways that the author took the original story and made it their own. In a fairy tale retelling I expect
1. References to the original the make me go, "Oh! I recognize that!" and maybe get a little giddy
2. Details that a die-hard fan of the original will appreciate, but won't bog down someone who just vaguely knows the story
3. Inventive reinterpretation through a totally original story and characters

Let me start with #3 - because with a retelling it seems that's the hardest to achieve. Death of the Mad Hatter totally did that for me. With the exception of some really key, gotta have 'em elements, this was totally original. You did not go into this story knowing what to expect. I didn't know what to expect ever quite frankly - I was always guessing.

#2 - I honestly can't say for sure on this one because I'm not a die hard fan, and yet I feel like some elements were familiar and yet I didn't have a clue what they referred to. So I'm guessing those are the elements a die-hard would get giddy over. But I can say, I was never ever bogged down. I never felt like not knowing Wonderland really well was a handicap, because this world worked on it's own without any necessary love for or knowledge of Wonderland.

#1 - It totally had the Mad Hatter (duh!), Red Queen, Playing Cards, White Rabbit, etc. It was all there and yet they were fresh and new.

Concluding Sentiments...
So yeah - I loved this retelling and definitely recommend it. I also have to say - without spoiling - that I loved this ending. It was a really good fit for Wonderland. And I'll leave it at that!
I give this book a 3 and a ½, but am indecisively bumping it down to a 3.

I’m not a traditionalist in the basic sense of the word. I appreciate things for what they are, but I was disappointed in this reading experience and probably not for the reasons you may think. Overall, I commend this author for the ingenuity of taking a classical, commonly known, story and turning it into something completely new, but beyond that, I have issues.

First off, I was expecting this story to be more New Adult than YA (not a big fan of YA, but was willing to give New Adult a try). I had so much trouble taking, what I believe was supposed to be the serious aspects of this story, seriously because of all the high school banter. For YA fans I’m sure this isn’t a problem, but for me it was.

There is more than a good amount of crazy in this story and the added darkness was great, but some of the repetition came off as annoying, and I think it was supposed to be mysterious or add to the “crazy”. Crazy I get, but sometimes even that didn’t seem to quite hit the mark. In the story we are supposed to have an understanding that Al is tortured, but it just comes off as silly and weird playtime to me, most of the time.

The best part of the story development, to me, was the notion and significance of the “sweets” being the link to either sanity or insanity. As far as logic goes, I know it’s Wonderland and there doesn’t necessarily need to be any logic, but there were some things that either did or didn’t happen that really didn’t make sense to the overall goals of the characters.

I loved the rummperrabit and the spiders! I was not disappointed that I read this book; it really wasn’t that bad. I’m just disappointed that I didn’t like it more. I’m such a fan of all things Wonderland, but this story was only okay.

Still, I’d recommend this to anyone who likes Wonderland tales, fantasy, and or YA fiction, with the mention that this is a little dark.
"But, there was no denying the euphoric disposition of this girl; she had a mischievous charm. I wouldn't have said that I necessarily liked it, but it was intriguing. She was intriguing...and new. For a town whose newspaper's biggest story was the harvest report, having a new girl in school would most likely be headlined on The Gossiper's front page."

Death of the Mad Hatter

by Sarah J. Pepper

This retelling of the fairy tale Alice in Wonderland tickles my fancy in many ways. A boy with a girls name, and a girl who goes by a boys name hold the fate of Wonderland in their hands. Filled with nonsense and candy crunching I found myself having to show great self control in not skipping ahead to read the ending. Painted with just the right amount of budding romance and young adult angst Sarah J Pepper creates a version of Wonderland that kept me reading. I've spent much of my adult years remembering things that captivated me as a teenager and wondering about different ways Fairy Tales could go has been a big part of that train of thoughts. In this tale romance and feelings pepper the quest for the truth and set into motion a prophecy that impacts all of Wonderland. I couldn't put this book down!