Category: book review

“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” – Lewis Carroll

Hello everyone,

I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend full of fun, relaxation, and of course reading. Let me start off my review of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by saying I had never previously read it.

Yes, I know it’s absurd I went my entire life not reading one of the most popular books of all time. My reasoning behind this is – I knew it was one of those love it or hate it books. I really wanted to love it, and let me just say I LOVED it! Why did I wait my whole life to enjoy it?

The imagination of Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) had to have been phenomenal in order to write Alice’s adventures. Alice a curious little girl finds herself tumbling down a rabbit hole. Then all the wonder of Wonderland appears.

Carroll writes in such an immersive way it feels as if you’ve fell down the rabbit hole into Wonderland with Alice.

You’ll have adventures with a rabbit, a jabberwocky, cards, chess pieces and so much more. I don’t know what more I could say other than it’s a wondrous, nonsensical adventure I highly recommend taking!

Let me know what you thought of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” in the comments!

Exploring the world one book at a time,

– Book Reflections

“City of Lies” by Lian Tanner Review

Hello everybody,

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and a nice long relaxing weekend. Over the long weekend I listened to Lian Tanner’s “City of Lies” on overdrive.

“City of Lies” is the second book in Tanner’s “Keepers” trilogy. This is a middle-grade fantasy novel.

In this book Goldie a trained liar leaves the city of Jewel where things have changed dramatically since the first novel “A Museum of Thieves” to find her friends. She finds herself in a city of Spoke, full of liars. Everything is upside down, and backwards – even the city itself is a liar.

Changes in Jewel – The Fugalman is believed dead, and the Blessed Guardians are no longer in power. This means children are no longer chained, but some events happen in Jewel that question the children’s safety.

Goldie is asked to become the 5th keeper at the Museum of Dunt, but this would mean she would have to leave her parents. Her parents are in ill health, because of her. They were sent to the house of repentance in the last book because she ran away. She does not want to leave her parents, so she avoids the Museum of Dunt. That is until a kidnapping takes place.

This leads Goldie on a journey to the city of Spoke – where they are set to begin their festival of lies. How was Goldie going to find her friends, and the truth in a city full of lies? She may even get caught up in a big lie for a day and a night. Will she be ready when the lie is over? I’ll leave that up to you to find out!

The Festival of Lies really made up for not having The Museum of Dunt in this sequel. Both the Museum and the Festival carry their own persona throughout both books.

I quite enjoyed the second installment of the Keepers Trilogy, and I am seriously shocked the series isn’t beyond popular. To top off the suspenseful writing of Lian Tanner, Claudia Black narrates the audiobook, and she leaves her heart on the table.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this review, and that it might inspire you to read more!

Exploring the world one book at a time,

Book Reflections