A book that I have had on my shelf for years and thanks again to the Buzzword reading challenge and June's word for being a perfect fit. The buzzword for the month is name or title and I immediately put this on my TBR. I am so glad I did because I absolutely loved it. It is obviously a retelling of Alice in Wonderland focusing on The Queen of Hearts. Alice is not mentioned at all in this but majority of the other characters.
We follow the future Queen of Hearts Dinah as she is months away from her coronation. She is living in fear of her father because of his temper and she can't wait for the day that she becomes Queen and gets married so her father is no longer the King of Hearts. During a royal banquet the king shows his infidelities' and announces that he has another daughter by a common woman and she is now Duchess. The Princess is angry and hates her new sister and she defies her father and calls Vittoire a bastard.
The Princess Dinah is very protective of her little brother Charles who is a mad hatter. he produces many hats and sells them to the kingdom. He is kept locked away by the King and if he wasn't mad, he would be the rightful heir to the throne. Dinah one day stumbles upon secret tunnels and she then to is questioned whether she is a little mad as well.
I loved the story. I wasn't bored and each chapter had the right amount of anticipation and angst. It wasn't repetitive and it didn't go off topic. It was one POV and all the characters were fleshed out and they each had their own personalities. I could feel the King's rage through the pages. I could feel the fear of Dinah while in the Black Towers. The Black Towers were my favorite setting by far in the whole book because they were a world of their own.
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