Although indebted to a classic, The Wonderland Trials is inventive and colorful in its own right, abundantly able to charm and to intrigue.īest for: Fans of dystopian tales and modern retellings of classic stories.ĭiscern: Peril to minors games that serves as popular entertainment and sometimes cause physical injury to adolescents frequent deception, even among those purportedly on the right side the heroine steals and breaks the law without repentance or reckoning. The novel explores themes of believing without seeing, yet grants religion little notice or importance. fiction fantasy young adult adventurous mysterious fast-paced. Characters are sharply realized, and first-person narration gives the young heroine an appealing voice. The Wonderland Trials The Curious Realities 1. Characters are sharply realized, and first-person narration gives the young heroine an appealing voice. In The Wonderland Trials, Sara Ella crafts a dystopian retelling of Lewis Carroll’s classic, reinventing with flair all Wonderland’s denizens and infusing the story with freshness. In The Wonderland Trials, Sara Ella crafts a dystopian retelling of Lewis Carroll's classic, reinventing with flair all Wonderland's denizens and infusing the story with freshness. All Alice Liddell wants is to escape her Normal life in Oxford and find the parents who abandoned her ten years ago. Of course, she soon reaches Wonderland, and all its color and chaos cannot hide its darkness. The Wonderland Trials by Sara Ella (The Curious Realities 1) Book Blurb: Solve the clues. She wants to be that fantastic and dangerous thing, a Wonder. All Alice Liddell wants is to escape her Normal life in Oxford and find the parents who abandoned her ten years ago. The mixture of fantasy and modern tech tickled my imagination, as did the inner workings of Wonderland, such as the Houses and Quarters and of course, the Trials themselves.

Alice is only sixteen and already doing badly in the world, defying the law and doing poorly at school. I love Sara Ella's version of Wonderland, as a world and as a hidden part of an almost dystopian Normal Reality.