Cameron Jace’s Insanity Review
So, today as promised, we talk about Cameron Jace’s book Insanity (Book 1)
So let us start with the “blurb” from Goodreads.com
“After accidentally killing everyone in her class, Alice Wonder is now a patient in the Radcliffe Lunatic Asylum. No one doubts her insanity. Only a hookah-smoking professor believes otherwise; that he can prove her sanity by decoding Lewis Carroll's paintings, photographs, and find Wonderland's real whereabouts. Professor Caterpillar persuades the asylum that Alice can save lives and catch the wonderland monsters now reincarnated in modern day criminals. In order to do so, Alice leads a double life: an Oxford university student by day, a mad girl in an asylum by night. The line between sanity and insanity thins when she meets Jack Diamond, an arrogant college student who believes that nonsense is an actual science.”
...Most people who knows me know that I love a good fairy tale retelling...especially an Alice in Wonderland story...It’s a small addiction that at times can spiral out of control!
So..needless to say I was excited when I first found this book. First of all, it was FREE!!!!
As a matter of fact, it still is: Check out:
http://www.amazon.com/Insanity-Mad-Wonderland-Cameron-Jace-ebook/dp/B00HFE668Y
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/insanity-cameron-jace/1120829312
...to get your free copies for your Kindle or Nook! (Bare in mind though, the sequels are not available for anything other than the Kindle. Which sucks)
SOOOOO...Back to the madness!
Overall, I enjoyed this book.
ALICE. Yes, I actually liked this Alice. Sometimes during re-tellings, I’m not overly thrilled about the Alice character. For example, Alyssa in the Unhinged series...she can be a tad bit annoying. However, THIS Alice, *love her*! She is fiesty and charming and bat sh*t crazy...or is she?
Pillar: A very Hannibal Lector type character. I mean this in a good way. I’m one of the few people who saw the movie “Hannibal” and thought that he was romantic when she found the pair of shoes she was admiring left for her by him. So, Pillar reminded me a LOT of him, as a matter of fact, it is how I imagined him while reading... VERY intriguing!
The guessing game: Is she crazy? Is she not? Is she the REAL Alice? Is she not? The not knowing became the biggest part of the book for me and I enjoyed not knowing!
The White Queen: Can we say...”Bad ass?” Imagine THIS Anne Hathaway as the White Queen....*points down to picture* Ok, so it is not exactly how she was described in the book, no guns or anything and Lord knows she wasn’t wearing that...but, you get it, right?
CONS: I didn’t really care for the Cheshire’s story. BUT, it wasn’t enough for me to be turned off the book by any means.
Jack of Diamonds....Hm...Will save judgement based on other books in the future. But overall, not a HUGE fan, though I didn’t dislike him either. Yes, I get that may not make sense.
The book is EXTREMELY well written. The dialogue is well executed and the story moves a long at a fast pace. The imagery was so vivid that I could actually see it playing out like a mini-movie in my head.
This has been my favorite Alice retelling thus far and I recommend it if you are fan of re-tellings. I’m looking forward to reading the next one, except that I’ve moved onto something else for now, since it was not available on the Nook and I’m not as crazy about the Kindle App on my Nook. But I will get to it. In the meantime, I give this book:
Please give it a try! It is worth the read...especially since it is FREE!