![]() The first section of the book, titles ‘Lovely Creature’ follows Elizabeth Hargreaves, a young girl getting ready to celebrate Giving Day, a special occasion where the children of the richer inhabitants of The City meet the City Fathers and receive a small gift from them. ![]() Instead, the book has four connected short stories that act as both sequel and prequel to her books Alice and Red Queen, Henry’s version of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland. Looking Glass isn’t quite what I was first expecting, however, as it’s not a novel in the traditional sense. ![]() As such, when the chance to read her latest book came along I jumped at it, eager to see more. I knew that she took existing stories like Peter Pan, or old fairy tales and put new and interesting twists on them, something that I’d seen her do with short stories in anthology collections like Hex Lifeor Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairytales, where I was impressed with her work. ![]() I’ve seen Christina Henry books numerous times before, books like The Mermaidand The Girl In Red, but never picked any up to read. ![]()
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