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A review by kcoventry13
Cheshire Crossing by Andy Weir
3.0
At first glance, I was ecstatic! I mean, Alice, Dorothy, and Wendy in the same universe?! It looked like the ultimate crossover fanfiction! The artwork was cute and the idea sounded great, so I thought, why not give it a try? Again...I said 'the idea SOUNDED great'.
When I finally got to read it, I was...disappointed.
First of all, the story seemed extremely fast paced. Each page was a viewpoint from each girl and then they switched to the other at a quick pace. Maybe I'm just used to reading other comics and manga where things take time to explain the story line. Either way, I felt that the story didn't have enough depth. Yes, we see a small snippet to each of the girl's background, but that's it! They left so many plot holes open and it was really confusing. I mean, maybe there will a book two to this and we'll see things deepen, but overall, it felt like I was reading a children's book at times (which by the way, this book is definitely not for little kids!) Also, the time period makes no sense! It's in the 1900's and yet they're sounding like they're from this time period. (Again makes no sense!)
Which comes to the other thing I didn't like....cursing! Now, I've read books with minimal cursing and all, but this one...oh my gosh. Alice definitely loves to use curse words. I was shocked to see this right off the bat and was even more shocked when the Wicked Witch of the West said the worst one (except instead of actually writing the word out, which thankfully it wasn't used, the author chose to use punctuation cursing, which was also strange to put in the book). Why did the author feel that the characters should even be using the word in the first place?
The one redeeming quality is...the book was engaging. I did enjoy the concept and maybe if there is a book two to this, I'll give it a read. The way that they designed the characters was really interesting because the girls seemed multi-diverse. (Ex: Wendy was a tomboy, Dorothy was of a different skin color, Alice was raised proper, and other characters were different as well) That was a nice touch to set the book different from others.
It was a pretty good read, but definitely not what I expected.
When I finally got to read it, I was...disappointed.
First of all, the story seemed extremely fast paced. Each page was a viewpoint from each girl and then they switched to the other at a quick pace. Maybe I'm just used to reading other comics and manga where things take time to explain the story line. Either way, I felt that the story didn't have enough depth. Yes, we see a small snippet to each of the girl's background, but that's it! They left so many plot holes open and it was really confusing. I mean, maybe there will a book two to this and we'll see things deepen, but overall, it felt like I was reading a children's book at times (which by the way, this book is definitely not for little kids!) Also, the time period makes no sense! It's in the 1900's and yet they're sounding like they're from this time period. (Again makes no sense!)
Which comes to the other thing I didn't like....cursing! Now, I've read books with minimal cursing and all, but this one...oh my gosh. Alice definitely loves to use curse words. I was shocked to see this right off the bat and was even more shocked when the Wicked Witch of the West said the worst one (except instead of actually writing the word out, which thankfully it wasn't used, the author chose to use punctuation cursing, which was also strange to put in the book). Why did the author feel that the characters should even be using the word in the first place?
The one redeeming quality is...the book was engaging. I did enjoy the concept and maybe if there is a book two to this, I'll give it a read. The way that they designed the characters was really interesting because the girls seemed multi-diverse. (Ex: Wendy was a tomboy, Dorothy was of a different skin color, Alice was raised proper, and other characters were different as well) That was a nice touch to set the book different from others.
It was a pretty good read, but definitely not what I expected.