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mackle13's review
3.0
I'm just going to write one review for this whole arc, because I read them all within a 24 hour time frame, and there's no way I can try and remember where one book left off and the next started, so...
This is a companion story to Alice in the Country of Hearts. At the start of this story, instead of Alice choosing someone at the end, it assumes that Alice stayed in Wonderland but hadn't fallen in love. So we're at the end of the Hearts, but with a different ending...
This particular story, as the name suggests, follows the budding relationship between Boris (the Cheshire Cat) and Alice.
It was a cute story, but also frustrating and a bit embarrassing. Frustrating because the represenations of teenage romance are a bit too stereotypical... and embarrassing because I couldn't help but be reminded of my own romantic fumbligns, as it were.
Luckily, though, it's not just the romance stuff, as there's also stuff going down the the Faceless rising up to take on the Hatters, and Alice being used as a pawn in that particular game.
I did like that Alice because a bit more forceful by the end of the story, and I liked this arc because I liked Boris from the first story and think she should've totally ended up with him instead of anyway.
And, of course, as they're mangas, they're very quick and addictive. I read all 7 books in this arc in a 24 hour time frame, as I would come to the end of one only to be left with a sort of cliffhanger and get immediately sucked into the next.
Of course, that was also a bit weird because some of the books were half part of the Clover story, and half part of a side-story, which also involved Alice and Boris - but showing the starting of their relationship, which would've happened during Hearts if Hearts had gone that way.
Confused?
It's not really that hard to follow as long as you understand that Hearts and Clover are all sort of alternate versions of the same story. It's sort of like extended 'choose your own adventure' - which makes sense since it's all based on a video game, anyway, in which you would do just that.
Anyway -
Enjoyable series, though I'm a bit hesitant to read some of the other alternatives since I like Alice with Boris. I'll probably read them anyway, though, 'cause they are pretty addictive.
Definitely gotta go on the guilty pleasures shelf, though. ;)
This is a companion story to Alice in the Country of Hearts. At the start of this story, instead of Alice choosing someone at the end, it assumes that Alice stayed in Wonderland but hadn't fallen in love. So we're at the end of the Hearts, but with a different ending...
This particular story, as the name suggests, follows the budding relationship between Boris (the Cheshire Cat) and Alice.
It was a cute story, but also frustrating and a bit embarrassing. Frustrating because the represenations of teenage romance are a bit too stereotypical... and embarrassing because I couldn't help but be reminded of my own romantic fumbligns, as it were.
Luckily, though, it's not just the romance stuff, as there's also stuff going down the the Faceless rising up to take on the Hatters, and Alice being used as a pawn in that particular game.
I did like that Alice because a bit more forceful by the end of the story, and I liked this arc because I liked Boris from the first story and think she should've totally ended up with him instead of
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BloodAnd, of course, as they're mangas, they're very quick and addictive. I read all 7 books in this arc in a 24 hour time frame, as I would come to the end of one only to be left with a sort of cliffhanger and get immediately sucked into the next.
Of course, that was also a bit weird because some of the books were half part of the Clover story, and half part of a side-story, which also involved Alice and Boris - but showing the starting of their relationship, which would've happened during Hearts if Hearts had gone that way.
Confused?
It's not really that hard to follow as long as you understand that Hearts and Clover are all sort of alternate versions of the same story. It's sort of like extended 'choose your own adventure' - which makes sense since it's all based on a video game, anyway, in which you would do just that.
Anyway -
Enjoyable series, though I'm a bit hesitant to read some of the other alternatives since I like Alice with Boris. I'll probably read them anyway, though, 'cause they are pretty addictive.
Definitely gotta go on the guilty pleasures shelf, though. ;)
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