ARC Copy...I best describe as Alice in Wonderland meets the not so "peaches and cream" fairies of midsummers night's dream with one strange but strong female protagonist all mixed into one acid washed-coloured nightmare of a wonderland!

I heard about this book at Wondercon where the author was on a panel. The premise sounded fantastic and I knew that I had to get my hands on a copy! While the book started out interesting, I became very confused. The world-building happened so quickly that I never completely caught up from it. Additionally, the world seemed rather thin. The art was okay, but many of the images were a bit confusing as well. While I enjoyed the theme and premise of the story, it seemed quite lackluster and hackneyed.

Thrown into a twisted Faerieland where killing is the only survival skill, outcast and illegitimate daughter Artemesia is used to scrapping her way through life. This land is full of more than just monsters, however, and as Art fights to escape Faerieland, she may lose what makes her human in the first place. Dawson draws upon the darkest parts of Alice in Wonderland here, particularly with a Cheshire Cat-esque character with dark purpose and maniacal logic.