Is she truly insane, like the mad ax murderer in the adjoining room? His name is Hatcher, and he's so full of rage and energy that sometimes he stays up all night long, punching the walls and moaning out his pain. Alice escaped his attentions by planting a sharp object into one of his eyes, and he, in turn, marked her with a slash down the length of her face.Īlice doesn't know, at least in the early stages of the book, what is real and what is fantasy. He's not actually a bunny, but he has rabbit ears grafted onto his head and is a malicious murderer of young women. In her book, Alice is a grown, if naive, woman living in an insane asylum after an encounter with the wicked magician who calls himself The Rabbit. Last year, Christina Henry took readers down the rabbit hole with her dark, savage and eerie novel, “Alice,” a retelling of Lewis Carroll's famous “Alice in Wonderland.” “Red Queen” by Christina Henry (Ace, 304 pages, in stores)
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