I received a copy of Tiffany Roberts’ Escaping Wonderland in a monthly Renegade Romance book box.
Alice knows Wonderland is just a virtual world operated inside an asylum to which she’s been wrongfully committed, but she can’t find her way out—can’t find her way back to the life she lived before she woke beneath titanic trees and towering flowers. With the terrifying Red King searching for her and chaos all around, her only hope of escape lies in Shadow, a tall, mysterious being with glowing eyes, sharp claws, and a haunting grin who may be the maddest of them all.
But even if Wonderland isn’t real, her growing feelings for Shadow—and his desire for her—are. Can Alice and Shadow escape Wonderland together, or will she succumb to the madness like everyone else?
Meh, it was merely ok. Shadow was marvelous in all of the ways: noble, loyal, fiercely protective, and brokenly sweet. But everything (and everyone) else in the book was mediocre. The villains were incredibly shallow and cliched, with no discernible motivation beyond being men and therefore power-hungry sexual predators; all played at exactly the same note. There basically weren’t any other women beyond in passing, and it’s inferred that they were all “dollies,” faceless victims, or sex slaves. (As I said, cliched.) Worst of all, Alice was absolutely useless. She just floated through the book, going with the flow and displaying no meaningful agency of her own. Other than inspiring the hero to an act of heroism, she didn’t even participate in her own rescue. I continued reading for Shadow. I was intensely bored by every other aspect of the book.
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