The Chronicles of Alice, Tome 2 : Red Queen

First of all, did I like Red Queen as much as Alice? NO

Now, did I enjoy Red Queen as a book? YES

After escaping the asylum and defeating the Jabberwocky, Alice and Hatcher left the Old City, promised green lands, blue skies and hope once out of the walls, they find none, every single inch of these lands has been turned to ash. As Alice and her companion venture furthermore, they face one horrible sight, some of their friends, burnt, with a look of extreme horror on their faces.

Alice and Hatcher kept moving, still on their mission, finding Hatcher’s daughter, and so, they make it for the mountains. But first, they needed to cross the forest, with its giants and wolves and Goblin. To make things worse, Hatcher’s lured away from Alice who’ll be on her own until she gets out.

When Alice manages to leave the forest, she walks to a village, who’s inhabitants are very secretive and terrified, from one of them, she learns the story, about the mad White Queen, the Black King and the Lost ones, determined to save the sacrificed children and Hatcher, who became a creature of the queen, Alice decides she’ll take her chance confronting the queen and break her wicked rule on these lands.

The two books can’t be compared. Alice was about what happened, the Rabbit, The Caterpillar, Cheshire, The Jabberwocky, and Hatcher, always by her side, protecting her. The Red queen is more about Alice and how far she’s willing to push her limits and harness her magic with no one to rely on to protect her, I loved the way she looked at things and in spite of all what happened to her, she still could see a ray of sunshine in the world, the way she faced her fears and no matter what, she never lost sight of what’s right.

To be honest, I didn’t see any exceeding amount of romance, if we can call it romance, Alice and Hatcher care deeply about each other, they survived through oppression, fear, horror and pain and this, I think, bound them in an unusual way.