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Not your typical Retelling

⭐️Overall rating: 5/5

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📚 Title and Author: Alice by Christina Henry

🌟 Genre: Horror Fantasy

💬 Short Summary: Alice has spent the past 10 years in an asylum, her only company, a man with the ominous name of Hatcher who she speaks to through a mouse hole, and the nightmare of the Rabbit. Then a fire releases not only them, but a monster, known only as a jaberwocky. Alice is then thrust into a world of grit and magic that she had no idea existed. And where we meet unfamiliar favorites, like Cheshire, the twins, Catapiller and the Walrus.

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