Anthologies are really tough to rate! With different stories from different authors, it's really difficult to figure out what to rate the actual collection.This book is, as the title implies, a collection of stories based on Alice in Wonderland. Some of the stories are continuations of the original book, some are inspired by Alice's adventures, and some are very loosely connected to the ideas of Wonderland. There were some hits and some misses in this book, as to be expected. My favourite was on...

This is an interesting collection of short stories and some poetry but unfortunately it just missed the mark for me. There was some really interesting stories in here. Some I really liked, one of my favourites being the first story, it was hilarious. However, there were no stories which I loved. Saying that, there were also no stories that I hated. They were all just pretty average. I found that as the book went on, the stories started to merge into each other. Which became confusing. Maybe it's...

3.5 ⭐ Let's go down the rabbit hole to my Wonderland review! Whilst I absolutely loved a few of the stories in Wonderland, some just weren't for me. Some of the stories were a definite 5 star for me but others weren't. I could only give this Anthology a 3.5 rating max. My particular favourites from Wonderland were: There were no Birds to Fly by M.R. Carey, The White Queen's Dictum by James Lovegrove and About Time by George Mann. These stories are full of Monsters, horror, twists and turns and a...

Within these pages you'll find myriad approaches to Alice, from horror to historical. There's even a Wild West tale from Angela Slatter, poetry, and a story by Laura Mauro which presents us with a Japanese folklore-inspired Wonderland.Like most Anthologies you have a collection of stories by different authors all focused around a main theme, and in this book the main theme is, "Alice & wonderland" and also like most anthology books, the beginning few stories are solid to really pull you in, a su...

Originally published on The Nerd Daily | Review by Carolyn PercyFeaturing short stories from M.R. Carey, Mark Chadbourn, Genevieve Cogman, Jonathan Green, Alison Littlewood, James Lovegrove, L.L. McKinney, George Mann, Juliet Marillier, Laura Mauro, Cat Rambo, Lilith Saintcrow, Cavan Scott, Robert Shearman, Angela Slatter, Catriona Ward, Jane Yolen, and Rio Youers. Edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane.You think you know Alice in Wonderland? Think again. The stories within these pages will take

I think most people are somewhat familiar with the original stories. My first introduction to Alice, I’m fairly sure, was via the Disney animated film, and to be honest I’m not convinced if I’ve even fully read the original stories. I really must rectify that soon (would love a MinaLima to design an edition btw). The genre bending children’s fantasy, has definite horrific aspects and many a joke has been made about what Carroll was on when he wrote these tales. They are a true classic, and have

Review Originally Posted On The Sassy Book Geek **** Huge thank you to Titan Books for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review as well as allowing me to participate in the blog tour! ****As soon as I read the description for this one I was pretty excited! I’m a big fan of retellings, especially Alice in Wonderland retellings, and horror. So an anthology of horror based Alice re-imaginings sounded fantastic! I was pleased with a good majority of the stories and I had a blast reading

Overall Rating: 3.75 starsWonderland was a magical anthology full of short stories inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. All the stories managed to capture the wondrous yet morbid whimsy of Wonderland as they were full of imagination and followed no rules. It was a mixed bag- some were amazing and some not so much. Here's a brief summary of the stories and my thoughts on them: Alice in Armour by Jane Yolen- 3 stars: This was an amusing poem which I liked but it...

I was kindly gifted a copy of this book by the publisher in exchange for review. Anthologies can be little bit hit or miss for me. Either I really enjoy most of the stories or the majority end up being a bit too lyrical and metaphorical for me and end up going over my head. This collection was a little bit of a both, I really enjoyed some stories but others I just didn't really gel with. As you can probably tell from the title of this anthology it is a collection of stories inspired by Alice in

This one was a 3 because unfortunately I only enjoyed approximately half of the stories and ended up skipping many of the others. However, I have to say, of the ones I enjoyed, there were some there that were truly fantastic and shone through at anywhere between a four to a five grade, making this a book well worth borrowing from the library.The stories I did enjoy ranged from; an Alice on a mission in the Old West version of our world to track down the rabbit who is guilty of abducting children...

Anything Alice inspired always has a place in my heart, regardless, but I thoroughly enjoyed the contents of this anthology of Alice inspired short stories. I don't believe any of the authors were ones I had previously read from, so this had the dual appeal of providing me with a sample of their work and a list of future authors to read from. Not all of the contents appealed, as is to be expected with an anthology of such disparate authors and genres, but the majority did and I appreciated the u...

The best story anthologies take a theme and make you totally reappraise what it can do. I really dislike the original Alice tea but this collection does amazingly wonderful things with it https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/bl...

Beyond the world of mortal man lies a place called Wonderland. A place of visions both delightful and dark, where marvels ride the winds and evils claim the shadows.It's a wonder that Alice in Wonderland continues to have an impact on modern writing and literature. There is something completely captivating about the young girl who falls down a rabbit hole and ends up in Wonderland. Who has tea with mice and hares, and chases a white rabbit all the way to the Red Queen. From the absurdity of it a...

The moment I discovered this anthology, I just had to have it. The more Wonderland I read, the more Wonderland I crave. It's a weird phenomenon. You'd expect that at some point I'd seen enough versions of Wonderland and met enough Cheshire Cat's, but nope. I want and need more.And just like with every story collection there were stories I liked better and stories that didn't really speak to me at all. The stories in this book are incredibly diverse and there's something in almost every genre I c...

An anthology of stories inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland already jumps straight to the top of my wish list but then you tell me it includes stories from authors like Juliet Marillier & L.L. McKinney and I just get even more excited about it! This book includes a collection of 17 short stories and 2 poems that were all inspired by Alice and her adventures and written by some very well known writers: Jane Yolen, Robert Shearman, M.R. Carey, Genevieve Cogman, Cavan Scott, Juliet Marilli...

From classic quests to speculative sci-fi, this collection reimagines the Alice in Wonderland world in such a contrarywise way. While I loved some stories more than others, that’s the curse of any anthology. It was entertaining and fun!

3.5/5 Stars*I was provided with a copy of this book by the publisher, in exchange for my honest opinion.I’m sure that the majority of us have read Alice in Wonderland at some point, or at least are familiar with the story. It has been a while though since I’ve read it, but it’s always been a story that fascinated me and I love the different interpretations of it in both book and film, so this anthology piqued my interest a lot. These stories were very original and were a very eclectic mix and it...

While I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve never been the biggest fan of the original source material, there’s something about the world of Wonderland that draws me in over and over again through retellings; I can never seem to get enough, so when I heard an entire anthology was being released of dark fantasy and horror stories themed around Alice and her adventures, I couldn’t get my hands on a copy soon enough! I’m so pleased to say that it was everything I hoped it would be. Many anthologies

I love all things Alice in Wonderland. This anthology presented a great mix of intriguing stories, all with a unique twist. There were several stories that I wish could be fleshed out into whole books and some that had me scratching my head wondering what the heck I just read. Though since the inspiration for them was Alice in Wonderland that makes sense. The White Queen's Pawn , Smoke 'en If You Got 'em , and Six Impossible Things were my favorites.

As with most anthologies, this was quite a mixed bag but taking the collection as a whole, it was a fun reading experience. Wonders Never Cease by Robert ShearmanThis was an interesting opening story that initially felt quite true to the spirit of the original Alice story. I liked the dry wit but there were some genuinely awful images that I wasn’t sure how to take. I guess this story is quite open to interpretation which I appreciate but ultimately it was a bit too weird for my taste. There Wer...