Every good villain deserves an origin story, and Oakes offers a fascinating glimpse into the mad queen’s complex and heartbreaking past. The novel offers some wonderful reinventions of Carroll’s classic, and fans of Alice’s more sinister elements will appreciate Oakes’ macabre touches.
We all know the story: a little girl follows a rabbit down a hole and ends up in a magical world. As a kid, I was always kind of scared of Alice in Wonderland. I was as logical a five-year old as it was possible to be, and the idea of a world where logic […]
2016 is going to be a great year for fairy tale retellings in the YA world, what with The Rose and the Dagger and A Court of Mist and Fury and SO MANY OTHERS. But it’s also going to be a great year for classic lit retellings, starting with these returns to two of our favorite magical locales—Neverland and […]
We’ve slogged through the winter and come out of it relatively intact, which can only mean one thing: summer blockbuster season is almost upon us! All the franchise movies and sequels and big-budget blow-em-ups you could want are coming soon to a theater near you. But I understand that doesn’t help you RIGHT NOW. How can you possibly wait any longer […]
Nothing like a fresh stack of gift cards to inspire some TBR pile building. Luckily, 2017 was chock full of delicious reads deserving of space on your shelves. But you don’t have to take our word for it. (Although we’ve got some stellar picks of our own–check them out here!) B&N Teen asked some of […]