Saturday, February 5, 2011

Alice in the Country of Hearts: Volume 4

by Soumei Hoshino (art) and Quinrose (story), 189 pages

Alice is asked to choose where she'd like to live while in Wonderland: continue to stay at the clock tower with Julius, move to the amusement park with Boris and company, the castle with Vivaldi the Queen and that troublesome rabbit Peter, the Hatter's mansion with the scary twins and Baron Blood (who is, mysteriously, a murderous spitting image of her ex)? She feels safest with Julius (who at least hasn't tried to kill her yet, unlike some of the others), but is she in the clockmaker's way?

Alice's influence is causing some cracks to show in the strict rules of the "game" of Wonderland, but will they help her or hinder her as everyone is shaken up and increasingly out of their element? And will the boundary-erasing chaos of the Queen's upcoming ball only take Alice deeper into this world and farther from her own?

I don't know where this series is going, exactly. It likes to be a little convoluted and vague. But, I'm enjoying it anyway and find myself worrying over the characters' well-being and tenuously short life expectancies.

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