A Blade So Black by L L Mckinney Review
A Blade So Black | By L.Fifty. McKinney | Book Review
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Title- A Blade And then Black (The Nightmare-verse #1)
Writer- L.L. McKinney
Publisher- Titan Books
Genre- Fantasy / Fairytale retelling
Links- Amazon | Volume Depository | Goodreads
My Rating- ★★★★★
A Blade So Black is an irresistible contemporary retelling of Alice in Wonderland... but it's non the Wonderland you lot remember.
Contents
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Volume Blurb
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My Review
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Most the Writer
Book Blurb
The offset time the Nightmares came, it nearly toll Alice her life. Now she'southward trained to boxing monstrous creatures in the nighttime dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. However even warriors have a curfew.
Life in existent-earth Atlanta isn't always so simple, as Alice juggles an overprotective mom, a high-maintenance best friend, and a slipping GPA. Keeping the Nightmares at bay is turning into a total-fourth dimension task. Merely when Alice'south handsome and mysterious mentor is poisoned, she has to find the antidote past venturing deeper into Wonderland than she'southward ever gone before. And she'll need to use everything she's learned in both worlds to keep from losing her head . . . literally.
"So when Addison presented her with the chance to exist like him, to kill monsters that crept across what he called the Veil, a border between the real world and the world he came from, a realm of dreams called Wonderland, well . . . she called him crazy. Then she apologized; that was rude. But she'd seen the monster. She'd smelled the damn thing. She'd felt its jiff hot on her confront…"
My Review
I loved this book! Information technology is a retelling of Alice in Wonderland in a modernistic day urban fantasy. My favourite thing by far was the amazingly vivid world of Wonderland. I loved all the creatures, the colours, and quirky miracle that fabricated it experience authentically whimsical. The characters were corking too. I would read this again merely to hear near Alice and Hatta.
Plot
The plot doesn't follow the classical tale. This Alice is older and getting trained in fighting Nightmares. We see how information technology all happened at the start and a chip of training, but the plot dives correct into the action at a point where Alice is already capable of taking on monsters.
This is a archetype hero'south tale and a great story to get defenseless up in. I loved the journeying through Wonderland, but likewise how the plot merged into the real earth and still brought the magic with it.
Characters
Alice is, of course, the primary character and is very much a protagonist you want to root for. She has pressure coming at her in all directions, but manages to keep going and try exercise what is right, even if it doesn't ever work out. I liked how Alice was shown dealing with problems in the real earth that black American teenagers face, as well every bit the contrasting battles with magic and dark forces from Wonderland.
Alice is a well rounded grapheme with enough of flaws, but has a practiced heart and cares securely for the people effectually her. I enjoyed how different sides of her were shown through the different relationships she had with her Mum, with Hatta, and her all-time friend.
Addison Hatta was my favourite character. He has an air of mystery and secrets effectually him, and has some sort of hidden dark part that you desire to notice out more than about.
The side characters were great as well. I particularly similar Maddi, another transplant to the real world from Wonderland, but she only speaks in riddles and is so much fun. Many of the characters parallel with the originals, but all accept a twist.
Setting
Like I said earlier, the setting was my favourite matter. I could imagine being in Wonderland and wanted to see information technology all for myself. The tiny details make information technology magical and real feeling. Here'due south one of my favourite descriptions.
"A meadow opened before them; a sea of alpine grass—or what looked like grass—waved back and forth in the night. The color shifted in a gradient of pink and yellow. Purple clouds drifted overhead, rimmed in silver, and bloated from soaking up moonlight. Blue moonlight. The moon was freaking blue. "Wow," Alice whispered, stepping forward. The grass brushed confronting her thighs. She could feel the tickle through her jeans. She was then focused on the sky, the moon, that when a luminescent blue hulk bounced out of the grass, she yelped and stumbled dorsum. Addison laughed. Alice puffed her cheeks, trying to ignore the burn in them. She slugged him in the shoulder, which only made him laugh harder. "It'due south not funny." "No." He snickered, trying to breathe. "It'due south hilarious. And these little guys are harmless. Frubbles. They but want to play." She rubbed her arm as a few more than Froo-bles, Frubbles, whatever, rolled around at her anxiety, shining different colors. "Play?" "Aye. They're like puppies. Round, glowing puppies. Simply run, you'll see." He smiled, those dimples appearing once again. "Go on," he urged when she hesitated. "Fast as you can.""
Summary
I recommended reading this if you are a fan of Alice in Wonderland. It maintains the Wonderland feels simply with a great plot for modern times, as well as not bad characters you'll want to follow right through to the next book. I loved the magic and wonder, but there is also an underlying darkness that really fabricated it for me. I can't wait to read the next book!
A Bract And then Black past 50.L. McKinney
"Humans were the source of everything, really. Wonderland was the literal globe of dreams. Now-I-lay-me-downwardly-to-sleep dreams. Good dreams made this earth healthy. Bad dreams messed information technology up. Go enough bad in one place and poof! Nightmare. Peradventure non poof. And nightmares . . . affected people. Folk might non encounter the monsters themselves, but they certain saw the end result. On the news, reports about someone snapping and killing their whole family, or shooting up their job for no reason? Yeah, people were still messed up, dudes not able to have no for an reply, KKK mofos, the "solitary wolf" bullshit, all that mess . . . but sometimes? Nightmare. And she was here to face one."
Near the Author- L. 50. McKinney
Author Fifty.L. McKinney
Named 1 of The Root's 100 nigh influential African Americans of 2020, Leatrice "Elle" McKinney, writing as L.Fifty. McKinney, is an advocate for equality and inclusion in publishing, and the creator of the hashtags #PublishingPaidMe and #WhatWoCWritersHear.
Elle'due south also a gamer, Blerd, and determined Hei Hei stan, living in Kansas Metropolis, spending her gratis time plagued by her cat–Sir Chester Fluffmire Boopsnoot Purrington Wigglebottom Flooferson III, esquire, Baron o'Butterscotch or #SirChester for curt.
Her works include the Nightmare-Verse books, Nubia: Real Ane through DC, Marvel's Black Widow: Bad Blood, and more.
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About the reviewer- Jenny sandiford
Hello I'm Jenny. I am passionate about promoting new authors and sharing any astonishing books I find with the world. I am a book blogger, bookstagrammer, YA fantasy writer and travel writer.
I'm also a lover of nature, hiking, Harry Potter, cats, fantasy lands and quiet places.
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