Falling For Alice book review!

About a month ago, I received this book from one of the authors, Kitty Keswick, in exchange for my honest review. This book was sooo fabulous and different. It's an anthology of 5 short stories about Alice, the girl from wonderland, in honor of the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", one of my favorite fairy tales of all time. Each story depicts something completely different, kinda like American Horror Story.

1. Drunk - Dawn Dalton

Alice is a teenage girl who, every time someone touches her, she feeds off of their emotions and drains the person touching her, causing her to get "drunk". After one of her more difficult experiences, she finds herself in an alley by a restaurant where she meets a guy that works there and her hunger to drain seems to subside when she's with him. This story is probably the darkest out of the bunch, but it was really intriguing. I loved how the emphasis on how she felt "drunk" was shown with all-caps words. "Her stomach clenches as familiar GUILT tiptoes across her chest.

2. Alice at Woodstock - Shari Green

In this story, Alice is in a band and longs to be a great musician. Once she gets kicked out of her own band, her dreams are crushed and she no longer wants anything to do with being a musician. That is, until she's transported back in time to Woodstock. "Let no one steal your song."

3. White Rabbit Rx - Denise Jaden

Alice is a plus-sized, self-concious girl who wants nothing more than to be like the girls who are thin and look like twigs. She goes to the Hatter High dealer and gets a concoction called white rabbit, which after drinking it, causes her to get the slim figure she's dreamed of. Eventually, she realizes this is not who she is and she finds out who she's really meant to be.

4. Wormhole to Wonderland- Kitty Keswick

Alice is on the spaceship Jabberwocky. 12 males and 12 females (including Alice) go to another world and each are programmed to serve a certain function. Alice has the function of learning about and creating literature, but Alice has her own creative ideas, which leads her to trouble with the Originators, who are pretty much the big wigs of the ship. A man named Hacker tries to help her escape so she can be who she truly is.

5. Wonder in the Stars - Cady Vance

Lastly, this story is also a sci-fi short. It follows Alice who applies to NASA's teen mission aboard the spaceship Wonder. Her father died during a space mission. Once her boyfriend is convinced he doesn't need her anymore, she's forced to go through the mission alone, where she realizes she also loves space as much as her father did, and becomes the "girl who saved Wonder."

"I think it's the other way around, actually. Wonder saved me."

I give this anthology 5/5 stars. It was incredibly different and so much fun to read. I devoured it in one sitting. It was completely and utterly unique. I highly recommend this book!