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Heartless Introduction of the ebook: Heartless
Đánh giá : 4.07 /5 (sao)
Long before she was the terror of Wonderland—the infamous Queen of Hearts—she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love.
Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. A talented baker, all she wants is to open a shop with her best friend. But according to her mother, such a goa Long before she was the terror of Wonderland—the infamous Queen of Hearts—she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love.
Catherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. A talented baker, all she wants is to open a shop with her best friend. But according to her mother, such a goal is unthinkable for the young woman who could be the next queen.
Then Cath meets Jest, the handsome and mysterious court joker. For the first time, she feels the pull of true attraction. At the risk of offending the king and infuriating her parents, she and Jest enter into an intense, secret courtship. Cath is determined to define her own destiny and fall in love on her terms. But in a land thriving with magic, madness, and monsters, fate has other plans.
In her first stand-alone teen novel, the New York Times-bestselling author dazzles us with a prequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. …more
Review ebook Heartless
It started off well with immense amounts of baking and the promise of the bizarre and creative nonsense that every Wonderland retelling should hold. But then…disappointment.
I had high expectations due to my love of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland. Sadly, Heartless fails.
LIKES
• There is literally so much cake and dessert.
• There IS quite a bit of the goodness of Wonderland’s nonsense. Not enough though, which is annoying to me.
• Jest was actually a gift. He’s the love interest, in a sort of “forbidd It started off well with immense amounts of baking and the promise of the bizarre and creative nonsense that every Wonderland retelling should hold. But then…disappointment.
I had high expectations due to my love of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland. Sadly, Heartless fails.
LIKES
• There is literally so much cake and dessert.
• There IS quite a bit of the goodness of Wonderland’s nonsense. Not enough though, which is annoying to me.
• Jest was actually a gift. He’s the love interest, in a sort of “forbidden” romance as he’s the King’s jester and the King is courting Cath (our protagonist) …. so like for “propriety’s sake” she could never be with him. Jest has lemon yellow eyes (shh I don’t know either, but it works) and he’s a wickedly good magician, but keeps his tricks simple and fun. And he’s adorkable and charming.
• I love how it included some other fairy tale elements. It relied heavily on the Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater rhyme and also the raven from Poe’s poem.
DISLIKES
• It wasn’t nearly mad enough. I was here for people to be screeching with madness but they bordered more on just the “insufferably stupid” lines instead of “intriguingly mad” which I was hoping for.
• The plot wasn’t great. A spineless whingey girl tries to avoid marrying the king but not by doing anything active, just by whining about it in her room a lot. Dude. It started off so well and interestingly with Cath being all “I WANNA BE A BAKER!” But it quickly dissolved into 400+ pages of her never doing anything for herself.
• Why did the king even want to marry her? Surely there were other girls in Heart who could bake?? Because that seemed to be the only interest he had in her: “ooh she makes cupcakes I shall marry her”. wtf dude
• Following that, why did Jest care about her? And yes he did sprout the “You’re different, Cath!” line which made me want to throw a lemon at his head. Can we let that line die. But he keeps saying how she’s brave and strong and clever and literally she just makes macaroons.
• I didn’t like Cath. She could NOT do a thing for herself, like make a decision or a stand, until she had a boy supporting her. Where is feminism?? Did it take a nap whilst this book were written.
• Speaking of which: it’s got a Victorian England setting so it’s very rooted in sexism. I avoid Historical Fiction because I can’t stand how sexist it is. I get that it’s historically accurate. But we have a fantasy worlds with magical pumpkins and a Jabberwock eating people and we can’t have equality??The whole thing was 100% sexist the whole way through and I just got so frustrated. Especially when Cath never fought it.
• It was terribly slow.
• It was literally 300 pages before anything happened. So yeah it’s a prequel and Cath isn’t lopping off heads yet, but I mean the most exciting action scene was a cake getting cut basically.
• The Jabberwock could’ve eaten more people? Like. Maybe Cath.
• The ending SHOULD’VE punched my feels but it didn’t because I was so annoyed. I just had a bit of a “oh well that was obviously going to happen” moment instead of “OMG I’VE BEEN DESTROYED!!” Because Cath is an idiot and doesn’t listen to obvious things. (view spoiler)[I mean, the 3 weird sisters TOLD them some prophecies and Cath KNEW they’d come to pass so she knew the prophecies weren’t bogus. And then the sisters are like “if you go out that door someone’s going to be murdered, aka probably Jest” and Cath is like “SURELY NOT”. What ??? And when Jest died I was sad, yes, because I love Jest. But I also was just annoyed because everyone mad dumb decisions and it was an avoidable death so ARGH.
Plus Cath’s pendulum personality swing??? How am I supposed to believe this insipid girl could suddenly turn into a wild blood-thirsty queen? It was too sudden and too unfounded. (hide spoiler)]
• It needed more OFFING WITH HEADS. Let’s be real.
It was wildly slow, disappointing, and plot-lacking and not NEARLY enough things got beheaded.
(I prefer dark bloody retellings.) …more
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