Ever Alice felt like a lovely sequel to the original Alice stories that I grew up reading. I thought the pacing was good for the most part. There were moments where I wanted it to pick up but not enough to make me not enjoy what I was reading. I really enjoyed all of the familiar characters from the original stories especially the Queen Of Hearts. The work really shined in the various character moments that we get throughout the book.

Overall, this was a nice trip back to a familiar place. I love stories that take what we know and twist it around. It’s easy to live in the worlds we already know and Ever Alice was such a fun example of that.

I love anything dealing with Alice in Wonderland and this was no exception!!! Some parts did come off as a little too "YA" for me but I would definitely recommend this very imaginative book.

If you like Alice in Wonderland and YA, this could be for you. It takes place after her returning from Wonderland the first time. In a way it is like a continuation of what happened and her returning to Wonderland. It does deal with mental health - people believing she is not well and you can see her progression in Wonderland with what is happening in her life.

H.J Ramsay takes us back to Alice in Wonderland with this creative retelling of the tale. This was my first experience reading a Alice in Wonderland retelling. This book took a dark spin on the story as Alice, now 15, finds herself admitted to an asylum. Her parents think she has gone mad with her belief in Wonderland. Right before the doctors take a drastic measure and have her brain operated on, the White Rabbit rescues Alice and brings her back to Wonderland. Alice is being asked to kill the Queen!

The story is told in alternating perspectives of both the Queen and Alice.

Overall, I enjoyed this book but that ending has me feeling a bit off.

Thank you to Netgalley and Red Rogue Press for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Ever Alice attempts to explain what happened to Alice after she left Wonderland. It's something most fans of the classic story have likely wondered. I'm not a huge fan of the original, but I decided to try this one anyway. I struggled through the slow beginning and got bored with it several times throughout the story. Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy this story any more than the original. Big fans of Alice in wonderland will enjoy this one. Thanks to NetGalley for an arc in exchange for an honest review.

I thoroughly enjoyed Ramsay’s take on Alice’s adventures in Wonderland. The concept that Alice’s stories would be viewed as delusions worthy of commitment made an intriguing touchstone back to the ‘real world.’ We watch things get darker, darker fearing the inevitable end of Alice as Alice, until she is saved at the eleventh hour by an old friend.

Ramsay builds on the fantastical Wonderland world and I stopped a few times just to savor the clever wordplay.

The ending took me by surprise, if one could continue to be surprised by anything in nonsensical land of wonder.

This story is a re-imagined telling of Carrol's, Alice in Wonderland. The story picks up 15 years later, as a sort of sequel to the classics. Alice awakens in an insane asylum and the only way out is to return to Wonderland. She plots with the white rabbit to kill the Queen of Hearts whereby she will be able to return to her real life. But what happens when you fall in love in Wonderland?

Ever Alice is a unique twist to the typical Alice in Wonderland tale. The writing is good as H.J Ramsay keeps the voice true to to the whimsical, fantastical original Wonderland. However, there are a few parts that are not as enjoyable, like some of the allusions which I felt were forced and confusing at times. Any teen, young adult or any Alice fanatic would enjoy this book - overall it was good but not something I would pick up again.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review

I’m always so excited to get into an Alice in Wonderland story and this once had a psych ward included!

Unfortunately, this all feel apart very quickly and I simply was not interested. I found that the writing hampered me, the characters weren’t developed, and the story was too bombastic.

I was hooked right away to the Alice in an institution storyline. Alice’s mental struggles were believable and very readable. I really wanted more of this beginning section and it was over way too soon. When transitioning into the world of Wonderland, the writing became choppy and somewhat confusing. The author was trying to convey the quirkiness and often backwards way of Wonderland, yet the strange language and ideas often stuck out like sore thumbs rather than flowed with the story. I was always wanting to go back to Alice’s story in the beginning and once the storylines merged, there was no escaping the jumble.

The characters were all there, yet they weren’t as exciting. Alice was the only character that I connected with. Her mental struggles between what is real and what is made up were very interesting. Unfortunately, with all the madness surrounding her, they became lost. I had always wanted the Queen of Heart’s story, but Rosamund was so annoying in her brashness and ignorance that I began dreading her story.

I always did like the quirkiness of Wonderland, but I felt that this was too far over the top. Everything had to have a twist, or be backwards, or be different from the “real” world. It made the story hard to get through and keep track of what is what.

This story had me very quickly and then lost me even quicker. I wanted more of a psychological story than I got. Anyone that is a diehard fan of the original may love this new romp through Wonderland, but older readers that have grown up will probably be annoyed by its childish antics.

I think you must need to really be an Alice in Wonderland fan to get into this one. I found that neither perspective truly grabbed me: Alice retained too much of the along-for-the-ride haplessness of the original without much force of character, and Rosamund was petty, capricious, and violent, a true mad queen, but without significant enough wit or sharpness to truly make her a villain to root for. The relationship with Thomas was honestly a very strange addition, and seemed more a plot device than anything actually emotionally engaged. I also wonder whether the asylum element was used to its best advantage; it seemed to me included just enough to cast a pall on Wonderland but without adding significant atmosphere, or historical or social commentary. Overall, I kept waiting for the narrative to reframe the familiar story in the vein of Marissa Meyer's Heartless, and found myself disappointed.

I really enjoyed EVER ALICE. It kept me turning the pages way past my bedtime. H.J. Ramsay's use of alternating POVs in successive chapters added a lot to the characterization of the two main characters (Alice and the Queen of Hearts), and was an effective vehicle for maintaining and heightening suspense. I thought that the author's integration of the imaginative, nonsensical world of Wonderland and Alice's poignant real-life dilemma was a clever spin on the Lewis Carrol classic.

"more than you can ever possibly count, times double, divided by half."

The premise of this book grabbed me, and the story did not disappoint.
So often I get excited for a book, build it up in my mind before I read it, dive in and am left disappointing and almost let down by the book, like I wanted better for it.
This book delivered!

Alice is home after her adventures in Wonderland. Unfortunately all this talk about the Queen of Hearts and the white rabbit has landed her in an asylum.
Saved by the white rabbit, Alice is transported back to Wonderland where she finds herself on a dark adventure to save her head.

It is difficult to build on or mimic such a famous story, to step into the massive shoes of Lewis Carroll, but I felt Ramsay did an excellent job.

This book was really fun and it was entertaining to go back to Wonderland and see it a little bit differently this time. I love that everything really does come full circle and although I still have a few questions I can say I was completely satisfied by the end of the book

It's like a combination of the Tim Burton films and Alice Madness Returns video game. I enjoyed it but also....nothing new. Yes, its a retelling but I didn't get any kind of 'new twist' or originality from it.

My thanks to NetGalley and Red Rogue Press for a review copy of this book.

Ever Alice is pretty much a sequel to the Alice books taking place when Alice is fifteen. Alice has never ceased to believe in Wonderland and those she met there, but in the “real” world, this has meant that people, her parents and sister included, do not think her “normal” but “mad”. As a consequence, she is now undergoing treatment in a mental facility, dreaming of returning to her family one day. On the other side, we see the Queen of Hearts, here Rosamund, who is turning more and more ruthless as time passes, and beheading whoever irks her in one way or other, their innocence being of no consequence. The White Rabbit (here Ralph) comes to Alice and seeks her help in doing away with Rosamund. Alice does not wish to kill anyone but does want to escape, even more now that she is going to be subjected to new treatments to “cure” her at a different facility. Once in Wonderland, Alice finds herself placed as one of the Queen’s ladies alongside Bess (the Duchess with the pig baby), who hates her, and Sabrina who wants to be her friend. She also finds herself falling in love with the Prince of Hearts, Thomas. But plots to do away with the Queen are very much underway, and Alice is a part of them whether or not she wants to do any actual killing, while the Queen on her side is trying to secure her throne by getting rid of Constance, the Queen of Spades, and anyone else that she is in a mind to. How does Alice fare amongst these plots and counter plots?

I loved that so many of the characters that we are familiar with from the Alice books (this is probably the first sequel/retelling that I’m reading) are there in the book with “new” names—Ralph the white rabbit, Sir William (the Hatter), and Charles (the Dodo) besides the Duchess with the pig baby (Bess) and others (With the new names, it took some time to get my head around how was who). There are also other characters that are new but springing from the books as well as those familiar from outside, such as Humpty Dumpty’s cousin (Marco Polo), Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dum’s children, Lady Godiva, the Frog Princess, and Marilyn Montagu, the actress! The story for the most part switches between Alice’s viewpoint and Rosamund’s (though in third person) and so we see the other characters through their stories.

This was a fun sequel to Alice which for the most part keeps the humour and whimsical tone that one would associate with Alice (though it didn’t have perhaps what I would call Alice-y lines). I loved how the author created a skittles game (with armadillos and penguins) on the same lines as the original croquet, but very imaginative and fun all the same; and there is also another trial that Alice has to face. The plot was fairly interesting (though the Alice being brought back to kill the Queen bit is, may be, similar to the recent Alice films), and I liked how it played out with a fair number of twists and surprises along the way. (Even with characters who we “know”, things don’t turn out as we expect). For me though, after the first few pages, it somewhat began to drag for a bit (in the sense that I was enjoying it but not to the point that I couldn’t put it down or wait to get back to it), but then a little after the half way point, it once again picked up pace and I wanted to read on to see how things turn out for all the characters. The book has both light and dark moments—one point/aspect at the end was a little too dark for me, but it was definitely something that I didn’t see coming, and kind of left me with an eerie feeling.

I enjoyed reading this book very much, but not as much I expected to, so this was about a 3.5 stars for me.

The idea was very creative and for the most part carried out very well. I unfortunately wasn't too connected to the characters or the writing style, but I still feel that it's an enjoyable story especially if you're more of an Alice in Wonderland fan than I am!

Love retellings so I immediately wanted to read this one! Thanks netgalley!
I loved it, fast paced and felt a lot like the original to me (which I love)

If you have seen my reviews before then you know I am a total sucker for fairy tale retellings. I automatically put them on the TBR island. I love seeing how creative people can get when they are taking the classic tale and putting their own spin on things.

This book was very slow starting for me. I actually put this down multiple times and I was sure I would not finish it. But stubborn me decided that I was going to push through this in hopes that it would pick up along the way. Which it did towards the very end of the book.

It was a unique spin on things because it did not have so much as a wonderland feel as it did an OZ type of feel that it was all a dream not that you were actually there.

Ever Alice picks up the story of Alice in Wonderland about fifteen years after Alice returns home. Her stories of Wonderland have brought Alice into an asylum and she is plotting getting out. Meanwhile, the Queen of Hearts is still trying to decapitate everyone who annoys her.

Trying to be cured of her problem, Alice finds herself once again in Wonderland. The White Rabbit has tasked Alice with the assassination of the Queen.

The story is written in a very Lewis-esque way. Still, it did not pull me in as much as the original story.

This is just as fun and quirky as the original story of Alice in wonderland. I loved the pace of the plot and felt engraved with the story the entire time.

After returning from Wonderland, Alice's persistence about its existence results in her parents admitting her to an asylum where she can be helped. Alice, now 15 years old, is taken to a facility where a new procedure promises to cure her for good. Before her procedure can be performed, the White Rabbit appears and takes Alice back to Wonderland where she is asked to help kill the Queen of Hearts...if she doesn't lose her head first.

After Alice, is written in a similar style to the classic tale by Lewis Carroll. Many of the original characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland appear as well as a few new ones. I am typically drawn to retellings and while this isn't really a retelling but rather a continuation of Alice's story, I was very excited to read this novel. I love the cover art and thought the plot sounded very intriguing. Although Alice is the primary character, the Red Queen tends to be the main focus of the story. Most of the chapters are from Rose's POV and her interpretation of the events occurring in her court. Although I enjoyed the novel, the writing style, especially the "off with their head", got a bit tedious to get through after a while. The primary storyline involves Alice infiltrating the court as one of the Queens maids in order to help the aboveground organization murder the Queen. There is romance, violence, and mystery and the story ends with a clever little twist. If you love the writing style of the original story and enjoy retelling/continuation tales then you will find this novel very entertaining.