After Alice by Gregory Maguire
As is the norm with Mr. Maguire's books, he takes a famous story and tells it from another point of view. It's quite a racket for him. In this case, he took Lewis Carroll's book Alice in Wonderland and told it from the point of views of Alice's sister, Lydia, and Ada, a neighbor girl.
When told from Lydia's perspective, the reader sees what is going on in the real world. In this case, two little girls are missing, but it is chalked up to Alice being on one of her adventures and has taken Ada with her.
From Ada's perspective, we see a Wonderland very similar to the one we see in movies and such, except from a girl who is trying to find her friend. A girl who has no real friends, and is overlooked at home.
I was really looking forward to this book, but for the most part, I found it to be a bore. Nothing really original like his other books. This was just a girl encountering the same things Alice did, after Alice had already been there.
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