This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of a mystical under-land, as well as a girl’s pangs of first love and independence. Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. For now.
When her mother’s mental health takes a turn for the worse, Alyssa learns that what she thought was fiction is based in terrifying reality. The real Wonderland is a place far darker and more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever let on. There, Alyssa must pass a series of tests, including draining an ocean of Alice’s tears, waking the slumbering tea party, and subduing a vicious bandersnatch, to fix Alice’s mistakes and save her family. She must also decide whom to trust: Jeb, her gorgeous best friend and secret crush, or the sexy but suspicious Morpheus, her guide through Wonderland, who may have dark motives of his own.
When her mother’s mental health takes a turn for the worse, Alyssa learns that what she thought was fiction is based in terrifying reality. The real Wonderland is a place far darker and more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever let on. There, Alyssa must pass a series of tests, including draining an ocean of Alice’s tears, waking the slumbering tea party, and subduing a vicious bandersnatch, to fix Alice’s mistakes and save her family. She must also decide whom to trust: Jeb, her gorgeous best friend and secret crush, or the sexy but suspicious Morpheus, her guide through Wonderland, who may have dark motives of his own.
Praise for Splintered: "Attention to costume and setting render this a visually rich read..."
--Kirkus Reviews
"It’s a deft, complex metamorphosis of this children’s fantasy made more enticing by competing romantic interests, a psychedelic setting, and more mad violence than its original."
--Booklist
--Kirkus Reviews
"It’s a deft, complex metamorphosis of this children’s fantasy made more enticing by competing romantic interests, a psychedelic setting, and more mad violence than its original."
--Booklist
11 comments:
Coperta e superba=p~ si descrierea de asemenea :-? chiar mi-ar place sa o citesc
am mai vazut pe undeva coperta aceasta , este frumoasa , iar povestea este una interesanta , imi straneste interesul
geniala coperta si superbaaa:X,imi seamana din nou cu alta coperta si nu stiu cu care:))
am mai citit de cartea asta
imi place subiectul cartii, dar spre deosebire de voi fetelor, mie nu-mi place coperta. mi se pare prea incarcata...
stiu de mult de cartea asta am avut-o si la coperta zilei si am primit si de autoare niste semne de carte superbe
coperta ma duce cu gandul la alice in tara minunilor
interesanta descrierea
coperta este foarte colorata:))) si chiar imi place pe mine ma duce cu gandul la aripi de la editura litera.
ai dreptate Alexandra, seamana putin cu coperta de la Aripi. dar parac asta e mai frumoasa, cea de la Litera mie nu-mi place deloc
nici mie nu-mi place deloc alexa ioana cea de la editura litera :D
mie imi seamana cu alice intara zombiilor ..dar nah ..doar chipul fetei ..eae puin ciudata insa fluturii aia sunt frumosi
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