Title: Curiouser and Curiouser: Steampunk Alice in Wonderland (Steampunk Fairy Tales)
Author: Melanie Karsak
Publication date: July 17th 2017
Genres: Adult, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Retelling, Steampunk
About the Book:
To save the Hatter, Alice must work with the one man she despises so much that she might still love him.
Alice thought she’d turned over a new leaf. No more working for Jabberwocky. No more making deals with the ruthless Queen of Hearts. No more hanging around The Mushroom with tinkers, tarts, scoundrels, and thieves in London’s criminal underbelly. But she’d been bonkers to dream.
Hatter’s reckless behavior leads Alice back to the one person she never wanted to see again, Caterpillar. Pulled into Caterpillar’s mad schemes, Alice must steal a very big diamond from a very royal lady. The heist is no problem for this Bandersnatch. But protecting her heart from the man she once loved? Impossible.
Sometimes love is mad.
Excerpt:
I heard feet rushing quickly down the
cobblestone toward us. The sound of it set my nerves on edge, and my old
instincts kicked in. The runner didn’t slow as the footsteps approached. I
moved to grab the knife hidden out of sight under my apron, but my hands were
all tied up with Lord Dodgson. If I let go, he would fall.
“Watch yourself,
boy. What? Hey,” the footman called.
A boy with a mop
of striking white hair, wearing an
expensive but oversized waistcoat, slipped between us and was gone again in a
flash.
“My pocket
watch! My grandfather’s pocket watch,” Lord Dodgson cried, clutching his vest
where he always kept his pocket watch.
“Stop that boy. He stole my pocket watch. Alice!”
I glanced up the
street to see the boy dangle the pocket watch teasingly before us.
“Rabbit,” I
hissed.
“Your Grace…I
need to—”
“Go, Alice. Go.”
The footman held tightly onto Lord Dodgson so I could let
go. I turned and faced the boy. Rabbit, the little albino street rat, was
grinning at me. Sneaky little pickpocket. What was he doing in my part of town?
He’d grabbed the watch so deftly. Not bad. Some people said he was almost as
good as I used to be.
Almost.
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35174857-curiouser-and-curiouser?ac=1&from_search=true
Purchase:
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2EDAwou
About the Author:
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Melanie Karsak is the author of The Airship Racing Chronicles, The Harvesting Series, The Burnt Earth Series, The Celtic Blood Series and Steampunk Fairy Tales. A steampunk connoisseur, zombie whisperer, and heir to the iron throne, the author currently lives in Florida with her husband and two children. She is an Instructor of English at Eastern Florida State College.
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