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The Looking Glass Wars: Arch Enemy

natman95 — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:30:09 +0000

For those who are new to Frank Beddor’s Looking Glass Wars trilogy, the story takes place in the Queendom of Wonderland and it’s surrounding countries, where Alyss, the heir to the throne of Wonderland (and one of the two remaining members of the Heart family) is taken through a the pool of tears (a passage to Earth) after the queen is assassinated by her mother’s sister, Redd.

In the third book, Alyss (now queen of Wonderland), attempting to prove the treachery of the Lord and Lady Clubs, ends up leaving the city of Wondertropolis and the power of the heart crystal, which the leader of nearby Boarderland, Arch, takes advantage of, seizing the city and attempting to destroy the crystal, and eradicate the power of Imagination, which can be wielded by those who are exceptionally gifted with it, allowing them to create illusions, or even solid, fully functionable weapons.

I found it to be a very enjoyable book, and a quick read, not that I like that as much.

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The Looking Glass Wars Book 3 + LGW Movie

Matt — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:07:16 +0000

Book three in the Looking Glass Wars series will be released on October 15, 2009. It will be titled The Looking Glass Wars: ArchEnemy.

From the looks of things, Amazon put the page up fairly recently, and not many sites reporting the announcement yet. No cover art is listed yet, and there are no synopses or advance reviews available on the site. Frank Beddor doesn’t even seem to have announced it on LookingGlassWars.com.

In other news, a Looking Glass Wars movie is definitely in the works. In a recent LookingGlassWars.com update, it was announced that:

We are currently meeting with directors. The script for The Looking Glass Wars is complete, and we are in the middle of developing the Hatter M. script & adapting Seeing Redd.

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The Looking Glass Wars

Matt — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:05:01 +0000

Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars is a, shall we say different, take on Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland. It’s very different. Very different. This is nothing like Caroll’s decidedly odd, and not particularly interesting (in my opinion) book. This is real fantasy, not Carroll’s weird stuff.

The book opens in Wonderland’s largest city, Wondertropolis, at Heart Castle, with seven-year-old princess Alyss. After being briefly introduced to Beddor’s Wonderland, the story starts with a bang. Alyss’s parents, the rulers of Wonderland, are dethroned and killed by Alyss’s evil aunt Redd.

Alyss, with security head Hatter Maddigan, escapes through the Pool of Tears to our world, in 19th century England, where she is separated from Maddigan, and after a number of years becomes convinced that Wonderland was just a dream.

Redd soon has Wonderland in her tyrannical control, with only a small group of Wonderlanders resisting — the Alyssians, as the they named themselves.

After awhile, Alyss, now an adult, returns to Wonderland with Hatter Maddigan, to find a dark and battle-scarred Wonderland, with a dwindling group of Alyssians fighting Redd’s army of robotic card soldiers, both party’s weapon of choice being the AD52 razor card launcher.

Alyss, being the true heir to the Wonderland throne, must battle Redd…and not with and AD52. No, Alyss must fight Redd with her Imaginative powers, magical abilities that can do nearly anything with practice…something Alyss lacks.

The Looking Glass Wars is an interesting and imaginative take on Alice in Wonderland, and thankfully shares little resemblance with Caroll’s book. It’s dark, violent at times, futuristic, magical, and different from anything out there. I’m not sure if I’ve given an adequate description or not, but it’s worth a read if you’re looking for an entertaining and different fantasy book.

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