Splintered Review

Splintered by A. G. Howard pulls you into another sick, twisted version of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland. The story follows Alyssa, one of The Alice's descendants. But Alyssa definitely isn't what you would Alice to be; all prim and proper. Alyssa is a skater girl, colored hair extensions in all.

Alyssa can hear nature. Literally.  Flowers and bugs whisper to her, leaving a constant white noise. When a moth constantly reappears and random memories she doesn't remember living, she finds herself in Wonderland.

It's easy to be pulled into to world of Splintered, as I read it in three days when I hadn't finished a book in over a month. Howard has created these mysterious characters that takes a whole book just to scratch a layer of the characters as a person. All the characters you know and love haven't been forgotten, but with the White Rabbit without his fur, and Mad Hatter without any face structure, I wouldn't say these aren't exactly the characters you know and love.

With Howard's writing style, you feel everything Alyssa's feeling. Her confusion, her sadness, fear, even her heartbreak, we all feel it with her. She describes everything beautifully, which is why I'm giving Splintered 4/5 stars. Leaving me longing for the second book in the trilogy, Unhinged.