Friday, September 2, 2016

Book Review: Splintered

This book is about a young girl, who like all females in her family is cursed, with the ability to talk to plants and insects. Because of this her her mother in now in a metal institution. Alyssa is now worried that she may one day end up in there to. The curse and the family's curse having a connection to the Alice and Wonderland story. Alyssa ends up getting more tangled into their family's curse that she realizes that she must go down the rabbit hole just like Alice did all those years ago.
Alyssa is a bit of a tom boy, she like skateboarding. Her life long companion and crush, Jeb is currently dating a girl named Taelor. Taelor is always teasing Alyssa for there family's apparent insanity.

Alyssa does everything that she can to not end up in the institution like her mother and gran-mother, including trying not to look like her. Alyssa currently goes to the institution every week to visit her mother. On her last visit there it starts normally, but Alyssa accidentally her mother the she is crazy to. This leads to her mother to go crazy, and shortly after she get sedated.

Alyssa starts doing some researching into her family's history. She starts hearing a familiar voice in her head, from her childhood. Saying that she needs to go down the rabbit hole, to fix Alice's mistakes. She believes that it must be in London. In the process of getting a fake passport, Jeb some how finds out about what she done. Jeb and Alyssa get into a fight, but Jeb only thinks she is trying to go to London and doesn't know about any of her strange curse. Jeb storms off to got to the prom with Taelor. Alyssa listens to that voice some more and finds out how open the portal to Wonderland. After the fight with Jeb, she is starting to wish that he was here. At that wish he appears.

They find the rabbit hole and fly all the way down. They nibble cake to shrink. They meet lots of kinds of unfriendly creatures, that ain't like how Alice's said. Once the dry up all Alice's tears. They find their way to the mysterious Morpheus, the voice in her head. Alyssa is charmed by his mystery, but Jeb immediately hates him. Alyssa remembers all of her childhood time with Morpheus. She can't decide who she like more the protective Jeb or the mysterious Morpheus. . .


1 comment:

  1. This sounds like a very complex book to read. Who is the author? Have you read any other books like this one>

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