I have tried reading the book and also listening to the audiobook. I was only able to get through a chapter or two and I would put it down. I guess I just was not in the mood for it, until now. I decided to give the audiobook another chance.
I liked how the narrator used different voices for the characters, and I recommend the audiobook as it brought the characters to life. I really enjoyed it. It was fun hearing about some of your favorite characters from Alice in Wonderland. This started off a little slow, but once it picked up, you will not want to put it down.
Overall, this was a fun read and I am glad I finally gave it a chance. Marissa Meyer has written a story that is a prequel to Alice in Wonderland that is the story of the Queen of Hearts before she became the heartless woman we see in the Alice stories. She is being pursued by the King of Hearts and her parents are pressuring her to marry him. When she arrives at the black and white ball dressed in a red dress she realizes that the king plans to propose.
She sneaks our of the ball and meets up with the mysterious court jester, Jest. She is attracted to him and it turns out that he is also attracted to her. Cath changes from a loving, caring young woman at the beginning of the book into the ruthless Queen of Hearts by the end. Her story is tragic and heartbreaking. Cath was a very well developed character with a quick wit, intelligence and compassion.
Jest, as the court jester was the bad boy she falls in love with. He is dark, mysterious but has a loving, caring side to him that he shows to Cath and his good friends. The story twists and turns and pulled me in even though I did not think it would.
A good story if you enjoy the fairytale twists. Maybe I didn't love it as much because The Lunar Chronicle completed something in me.
Maybe I love Alice too much? I'm not sure but this wasn't my favorite or the best thing I've read. It's enjoyable and if you like retellings or Meyer's writing read it. I read this entire book with a sense of impending doom-- desperately hoping for a magical ending while simultaneously worried that there would be one. It kept me turning the pages at a break neck clip. Great characters with such great respect for details from both Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass.
I loved it immensely and hated it a little. Not many books can do that. Better in my opinion than the Lunar Chronicles. This is a pretty depressing prequel to Alice in Wonderland, chronicling the origins of the Red Queen. I'm sad that this isn't continued. I'd like to see Cath get a redemption story. I really enjoyed reading this back story of the Queen of Hearts. It was fun to read about the other characters from Alice in Wonderland as well.
Even though I obviously knew it wouldn't be able to have a happy ending it still made me sad. At the beginning of the story Catherine is so happy, free spirited and optimistic and by the end she is just so defeated.
Even though Alice in Wonderland has never been a favorite of mine I enjoyed this immensely! The story of how a young girl became the Queen of Hearts in the world of Alice in Wonderland. It begins with year-old Catherine Pinkerton, whose parents want her to accept a marriage proposal by the King of Hearts. But sweet and compassionate Catherine is repulsed by the King, and at any rate only wants to bake. He looks exactly like the handsome man she keeps seeing in her dreams, and the two have an instant chemistry.
Maybe he can offer her a way out after all. But there are troubles in Wonderland. It also turns out Jest is not who he claimed to be. What will happen to Catherine and the Kingdom? Will the Jabberwock prevail? Will she be able to realize her dreams? Evaluation: Most of the time this story is clever and funny and full of puns, fantastical images, and entertaining allusions to works by Lewis Carrol and Edgar Allan Poe.
But it also has moments of heartbreaking tragedy. If you are willing to accept the latter in order to enjoy the former, this book has much to recommend it. I am quite glad I read it, but I am still sad…. It was a thick book. But the ending is definitely amazing. It's definitely different from the Queen of Hearts in a Disney movie. Love it! This book made me very nervous. At first I was real skeptical because the world was not clearly set up for me. For some reason the magical elements and the humanoid animals seemed really out of place in the beginning, even though those are obviously parts of the original Alice story anyway.
I don't know, it just took a while for it to start feeling normal. Once I got past that, I started to get mildly concerned that the book was more based on the Disney movie than on the original book. There was like, a hundred pages left and I felt that it needed to either end right there or have a lot more pages left. I just couldn't see how it could resolve itself in only a hundred pages.
I was terrified that it would be an unrealistic happy ending, but equally terrified of the tragic ending that really should be coming. I won't give away the ending, but here's what I will say: it was good enough. It could've been done a lot better, in my personal opinion, but it was still satisfying. It doesn't make me think poorly of the whole book, and it was still a good ending that leaves me pretty exhausted and breathless in a good way.
So yeah. Uh, good book. Would read again. I've never read the original Alice in Wonderland story. I did watch one live action adaption and enjoyed it a lot as a kid, but that was as far as my interest went. I decided to try this out, because I've enjoyed Meyer's work before, and I love these prequels about villians.
I was not disappointed by this book at all. I absolutely loved it. I loved the characters, the romance I kept thinking, ''What if she isn't the one to become the Queen after all?
Of course, I was crushed, but If you are a fan of Alice in Wonderland or fairy tales in general and with a twist, then, you will enjoy this book. What I most loved about this book is that it was not just a twist on a classic story but it stood alone as a different story. Yes, there were some of the same characters from the original. However, there were other new characters that kept this story refreshing. So, there was nothing to compare this story to the original.
Well, I guess in all honesty you could say that this book is the "original". It was entertaining to read how the Queen of Hearts came to be the woman that was the most feared in all of Wonderland. Although, I must comment by saying that while I liked the romance sprouting between Catherine and Jest, I felt that Catherine could have been fine without any suitors.
She is a strong, independent woman with a mind of her own. Therefore, this is the reason I liked her a lot. Yet, the romance between Catherine and Jest was sweet. At least, Jest offered some laughs. Unlike the King. He was spineless. The Jabberwock was a nice addition to making this story a little darker. This is a recommended read! I look forward to reading more books by this author.
Heartless am a sucker for a good "making of a villain" story. I normally copy over the back cover information from Amazon into a review, but this one can be well summed up by knowing that this is the making of the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland. The full back cover was a little overkill when I looked at it. Yep, this is written by the same woman who gave us a science fiction reimagining of Cinderella set in a dystopian future.
There was a chance that I would have too high expectations for this book to possibly live up to, but that did not turn out to be the case. It was just as wonderful and enchanting as I had hoped.
It also made me feel like a have to go back and watch Alice in Wonderland again. Caterpillar, and the Mad Hatter. I really enjoyed the Mad Hatter, or Hatta is he is called here. Despite the fact that this is a prequel that lets you know up front which character it is developing, there were still some moments that made me question how we were going to get there. There was something about the way the odd things in Wonderland are normalized when seen through the eyes of a resident.
I enjoyed the story development and writing of this book almost as much as in the Lunar Chronicles but this is a set of characters that I was not nearly as attached to at the outset.
A heroine would have fought. But Catherine is no heroine. I am full to the brim with murder and revenge. I am overflowing and I do not think you wish for me to overflow on to you. I liked that Catherine better. And her character development, above all. I may be biased because cold, heartless, ruthless female leads automatically mean I'm sold. Even if they show up only for the last five chapters or so. Every single time they talked to her, a part of me screamed and died in agony. Their last encounter brought real tears to my eyes.
Not being listened to , not being truly considered by the two people who should be the most supportive and caring for you, that's a torture I wouldn't wish on the worst of my enemies. The Marquess and the Marchioness are probably the main reason why my very soul was in agony throughout the whole book. I was too caught up to take notes. I remember thinking that Cath's bitterness, after view spoiler [Mary Ann's betrayal hide spoiler ] , seemed somewhat too sudden , and that it didn't seem to bode well for the character development, but as you can guess, my fears were unfounded, though the episode was indeed handled rather awkwardly, narratively speaking -she's like rainbow and sunshine one scene and storm and thunder the next.
So, when you get there, don't panic: it's all but short-lived. Again, it was kind of rushed and, I think, not very sensible, and that's probably the part of the book I like the least, but not so much that I couldn't turn a blind eye and keep enjoying the rest.
I feel like I understand it on a subconscious level while not being able to put it in words. Jest is an adorable love interest, and the ship sailed in no time, but the point is, the romance in itself is not the point.
What actually is important is what this first love story means to Cath and how it would affect her life. This is why I wouldn't call Jest a male lead: the only lead, here, is Catherine. And I'm particularly happy with this. I did not expect to warm up so much to this girl in the habit of dreaming too much , for whom hoping is an illness, for whom burying her hands in a ball of dough is the ultimate happiness.
I warmed up to her so much my heart had got as cold as hers as the conclusion drew near, and by the end of it, it didn't even seem to be beating anymore. I wonder if I will ever be able to claim it back. View all 15 comments. I pretty much went into it with no expectation.
I only knew that it's somehow a retelling of Alice in Wonderland but really, it's the villain's story before she became the notorious Queen of Hearts and that was intriguing enough for me. Yet, Meyer managed to fill it up with a beautiful and fast-paced story that I was hooked from start to end 5 Red Roses "A finely crafted hat makes a person Yet, Meyer managed to fill it up with a beautiful and fast-paced story that I was hooked from start to end. Heartless tells the story of a girl named Catherine, who's the daughter of a royal family going by Rock Turtle Cove in the Kingdom of Hearts.
She is deemed to become the Queen as she is pressured by her parents mostly by her mother, the Marchioness to marry the very-available and ever giggling King. However, her passionate lies elsewhere and that's in her baking. This tale continues with Catherine fighting for what she wants despite so many obstacles. But we all know how this story turns out in the end Will she take risks and get the bakery of her dreams or lose everything she's worked so hard for to only be crowned as the Queen of Hearts?
Her mother sneered. I've become rather fond of fools. To those who have knowledge of Alice in Wonderland will also recognize side characters like Chesire, the White Rabbit, Mr. Caterpillar and so on. You know you're good at it, and that knowledge lights you up. That still doesn't take away the fact that it wasn't funny throughout cause it actually was I loved reading how realistic the characters in Heartless were in its traditional and magical sense.
I was so not expecting that. For one, there's no denying that Catherine is flawed. She's short of shy and well-mannered but at the same time she tends to react very quickly. True to her manners, a lot of the times her mind wanders to sacrificing her own happiness for her family's wishes and to keep her reputation intact but still, she is determined to fight back.
Jest, on the other hand How he treated Catherine throughout this entire book is swoon-worthy and I'm glad that their relationship wasn't instant as it may seems. The romance in this book you guys was NOT overwhelming. Rotated back. Feb 29, elena rated it really liked it Shelves: They were all a little mad, if one was to be forthright. Okay so, it's a big surprise I enjoyed this.
I knew I would simply because it's Marissa Meyer and she did not disappoint me with her Lunar Chronicles series, so I knew this would happen. Marissa is the only author that is able to write novels that captivate me from the very first sentence.
To be honest, I dislike retellings a lot. I won't say I hate them, but we aren't very good friends. Every retelling I read or try to read ends up unfinished or rated lowly. Marissa Meyer had me intrigued since the very beginning and I couldn't be happier. Heartless was happy and cute, but it was also heartbreaking and now I am heartless? I would say that's the word since I don't even know what my hearts for now. Heartless is a well-done and well-written retelling of Alice in Wonderland.
I've also never been the biggest fan of Alice in Wonderland, so I was a little afraid going into this one when Sana asked me if I wanted to BR it with her. I said yes because I kinda thought she and I would think the same about it and well, I was glad, and I couldn't be happier of us Sana.
Our buddy read finally worked! The Queen of Hearts was actually one of my favorite characters only because she was a bitch and had a rude attitude. Call me a bitch as well, but I liked her personality. For some reason, I did, but mainly because she's the Queen of Hearts that everyone else despised while I enjoyed her. Before becoming the rude Queen, Catherine 'Cath' Pinkerton was just a normal girl who wanted to be happy by opening her own bakery with one of her good friends, Mary-Ann, and she wanted to fall in love, to be happy, to know what's it like to be in love.
Before turning into the Queen of Hearts and marrying the infamous King of Hearts, Cath just wanted her own fairytale of falling in love and feeling passion, to be happy while she lived the young life she had. Her parents, being the strict parents that don't really care what happiness for their daughter is and what it really means, don't want her to do that and don't approve of it. Instead, they try pushing her into becoming the only girl that can be seen at a royal ball where the King himself can fall in love with her and propose to her, and that is exactly what happens.
The King of Hearts, an immature and childish boy who does not have the capability of ruling a kingdom, proposes to Catherine. He does not show any love and affection towards her in any way but he does show it to her pastries and desserts, which might be why he proposes to her. Cath, feeling a disgusted pleasure, does not want to accept this proposal and marry the King. Luckily for her, on the same day, a mysterious and new court joker who goes by the name of Jest, arrives on the same day and steals a glance at Cath, not bothering to care about the interruption he just made.
As Jest entered the ball and was able to talk to Cath in a way, the two start seeing each other more and all that leads to their own private courtship that is both loving but endangering to both, especially Cath.
So to say it all, I loved Heartless! I really don't care what other have to say about this. I think I loved it so much because it was a retelling of the Queen of Hearts and not about Alice.
What made me love this more was that Marissa included so many characters and aspects of the original retelling. So I know the Red Queen and the Queen of hearts are different characters, but the White Queen and Red Queen were mentioned in this novel by Jest which was something that brought back memories from the movie as well.
So to say it all, there were characters from the movie and the original Disney film. We also get such a different setting in this world. It's the world in Wonderland, but it was in the own creation and words of Marissa. It feels very different reading it when comparing it to the other films since it doesn't have to do much with Alice herself, but I was just glad Marissa was able to top that off as well.
She was able to make this her own and unique world of Wonderland and it fit the characters and the story perfectly. Other kingdoms were mentioned as well and it was great finding out new things I actually didn't know about. The writing was also something I completely enjoyed! Like I said, Marissa has been the only author that has been able to captivate me into her new worlds and into her writing without complaints since the beginning.
I'm always afraid to read retellings because I always think it will ruin the original fairy tale, but when it comes to Marissa, there's no doubt I'll love it. Cath was definitely a character I enjoyed reading about. She was a simple and normal girl who wanted to live a life she wanted to live, to choose the path she wanted to choose, not the ones her parents wanted for her.
She was good, understanding, lovely, adorable, and just cute! It's a fantasy book, so I can't relate to characters, but Cath was a character I was able to understand from the beginning until the end. She had her own dreams and sometimes just wanted to run away and escape the world she was living in because she felt controlled at times by the King and her parents. She couldn't do everything she pleased or wanted to do, and she had to listen to everyone all the time and deal with it all.
She didn't have many friends. In fact, she didn't have anyone to count on, not even Chesire. She couldn't trust herself to tell anyone anything or meet anyone knew and feel like they would become friends because she's never had the heart to do that. I sometimes felt bad for Cath and that is part of why I loved her character. She was just cute, that is all.
She was also caring and nice but of course, the teenage girl must become the Queen of Hearts that orders to chop heads off and has everyone hating her. Another thing I loved about Cath is that she wasn't afraid to find out who this mysterious court joker and what he was up to, Jest. Jest was just wonderful in every way possible. He is another one of those fictional characters that are added to my book boyfriends list along with other girls and other book boyfriends over there who actually have a girlfriend ; Jest was just the perfect one for Cath.
I wouldn't call them boyfriend and girlfriend because their relationship actually started late, but the way their friendship was growing and turning into small aspects of a relationship was cute.
Cath admitting to herself that she hated how she was falling for Jest immediately was funny, and of course, a book pet peeve of mine is insta love and I honestly hate it, but insta love here was different and I actually didn't mind it which is not something that usually happens.
Never has happened, but with Heartless, history has been made. Cath and Jest both fell for each other and that involved insta love, but I wasn't upset.
The only reason I hate it is because the author didn't write it correctly or in a way where I was able to enjoy it. There was no love triangle, and thank you, Marissa, for that, so instead love wasn't a problem. I loved them together since the beginning since Jest started his small performance that left the King and everyone else amazed and surprised and then just, left.
Jest was just perfect. The ending doesn't change anything for me and I will love him forever and always. He's there in my heart and I thank him for coming into Cath's life and making it better. What I mean by that is that he was able to make Cath smile and laugh like no one else and I just loved that. Jest was just amazing in every way and I loved everything about him. He's a mysterious joker, a swoon-worthy male who had me giggling like a small 5-year-old fangirl because I couldn't get enough of him.
Sana and I swooned over him since the beginning because he was a mysterious dude and he just sounded like those other attractive fictional characters. A joker. A rook. A mystery. Unlike Jest and Cath, the other characters were the pieces of the book that I did not like in any way. Actually, I enjoyed the Raven and Chesire, but that's it. The King was very immature, childish, a fool, and did not have any kind of ability to rule a kingdom.
He was a King who was very scared and did not have any protection under him in any way, he did not know how the care for a wife really is, and he couldn't do anything by himself. He and Cath were not meant to be together in any way and it's obvious from the start, which was another thing I was happy about.
The other characters, like Jack and The Mad Hatter, were assholes at times as well. Jack, first, was the character I hated the most from the beginning besides the King. He was a selfish guy who didn't care about anyone and anything besides himself and I really hated how he didn't try anything new.
The Mad Hatter was a little different than the Hatta we're familiar with. This guy created and gave hats that could turn people into someone else, which is found out as we learn a little more about him. He was also mysterious, like the Joker, and he was also a selfish guy who didn't care much about the outside but only for himself and what he felt on the inside which was something I didn't like as well.
Even with the complaints I have with almost every other character, this book was just phenomenal! It was just what I needed; it was just the retelling I needed to read and I couldn't be happier to finally find a fairy tale retelling that made me my little red heart happy and then shattered it, not allowing it to feel anything. Marissa Meyer is just a wonderful writer and I'm so glad she was able to come up with this and write it the way I was expecting it.
I'm really looking forward to her future novels, her upcoming releases, and anything she has in mind. I heard she's into fairy tales a lot so what she will normally write will be retellings and I am just perfectly okay with that. I loved this a lot, just a lot. I'm not in a hangover, but I feel many emotions towards that ending. Those 4 last words, those 2 words that I read over and over again that made me sad over and over again when I knew that would happen. I currently hate Sana for that because she kept telling me she had predictions and theories and me being the person that doesn't predict anything or have any theories because they can ruin the whole story for me, was very very mad at her.
I don't ever predict unless it's so obvious and it's like, right there because sometimes I feel like I can or will be right and it will just ruin the whole thing for me. There won't be a point in reading the rest of the story if I already know what's gonna happen. Even if I spoiled myself, I would just skip to the end and say I finished it by skimming the last few pages or the rest of pages that were left of the book. I mean, that's happened a lot when I spoil myself so it wouldn't matter to me.
View all 42 comments. Feb 10, Anne marked it as did-not-finish Shelves: read-in , retelling , sleep-aid , fairytale. Yeah, no. Sorry this one just isn't for me. I tried. But, it was just too boring for my personal taste. I should probably mention that I'm not an Alice in Wonderland fan. I've never read it, and I never plan to.
In fact, I've never even made it all the way through the Disney movie. I know it's a classic and all, but even the animated version bores me. I'm not saying this story is boring, just that it's boring to me. Catherine is the daughter of a marquess, but wants to be a baker.
She's getting pushed into marrying the King of Heart, but she's in love with the Jester. In the background, there's a monster Jabberwocky on the loose. And since I'm in the very small minority, I'm assuming that all of the above mentioned stuff was wonderful for most of the readers.
To me though, it was chock full of equal parts weird and dull. The world's most snoozworthy romance happening in Trippyville. Yeah, no thanks. I've only DNF'd a small handful of books over the years, but I'm afraid this is going to have to be one of them. I could lie to myself and say maybe I'll come back to it at a later date , but you and I both know that ain't happening. Due to all the glowing reviews, I don't think most of you will find this book as unreadable as I did, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
View all 44 comments. Sep 24, Tiea Martin marked it as to-read. View all 4 comments. May 25, P rated it really liked it Shelves: young-adult. I could feel it everywhere when words were recounted, when songs were chanted and when hearts were broken. Other than that, the book made me giggle continually. Catherine has the great development since the beginning. Her character is played out an exact direction as a good girl constrained by traditions.
And then she meets Jest, her heart is conveyed out of the path of marrying the King of Hearts. Cath was my main focus through this book. I admired her at first, but around the middle I felt as if her personality was queerly changed. I should have felt good with it, but I didn't. I was afraid that this book would be another Fairest , a pitiful girl turns villainous by people around her.
Anyhow, the ending was not what I was afraid of, and I was quite satisfied with those twists and turns flipping my stomach and wrenching my heart painfully.
I kinda understood the motivations of the MCs, though. They follows the story that already happened in Alice in Wonderland , which Marissa Meyer tried so hard to respect the original one, and she did well. The narration is good but slow, and if someone doesn't enjoy the courtesy of the Victorian era as I did, it'll be boring and easy to lose interest since the first few chapters.
By the by, I liked many things of Heartless: its characters, story, twists and magical world which divided by the Looking Glass. They captured my atttention successfully and made me fall in love with Alice in Wonderland all over again. View all 25 comments. Nov 30, Sophie rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. I cried. View all 3 comments.
Nov 09, Jenna rated it it was amazing Shelves: fantasy-shmantasy , 5-star-reads , ya. But as I carried on, this book grew darker and darker! Unfortunately, she has no desire to be Queen of the Kingdom of Hearts. He is witty, clever and with a knack for the impossible. Suddenly Cath finds herself even more desperate than before to avoid engagement to the King. Throw in battles with the Jabberwock and mysterious items coming over from the land of Chess; entered only through the looking glass and a well watched over by three creepy girls and this book has some serious fantasticalness!
But as we all know how the story ends, it was frightening to see how everything would unravel, and there was so much magic and world building, I was both enraptured and heart broken all at the same time!
View all 13 comments. Dec 09, Debra rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorite-books. Oh how delicious this book was! Catherine loves to bake. She dreams of owning her own bakery one day. She would love to just bake and bake and bake. It makes her happy and gives her purpose. Her parents, on the other hand, have other plans for her.
For you see, the King fancies her. One cannot be Queen and bake delectable pastries at the same time! Not here, Not in Wonderland! At a Royal ball where the King is expected to propose to her, she m 4. At a Royal ball where the King is expected to propose to her, she meets Jest, the new Joker. He is handsome, funny and catches Cat's eye. She finds the King to be nice, but it is Jest who makes her feel alive. Not wanting to disappoint her family, she enters a secret relationship with Jest.
I had so much fun reading this book. All the Wonderland characters are there: the mad hatter who is not quite "Mad", the Jabberwocky, Cheshire cat. But mainly I enjoyed this re-telling about how the Queen of Heart came about. How can a lovely sweet young woman turn into someone so "heartless"? It is all her laid out for us.
I sat down in the reading room of my favorite library and read this book in one sitting. I think I was smiling most of the time and when I wasn't smiling, my heart was breaking for young lovers and those pressured by family, circumstance and duty.
Brilliant and touching. I wanted to shake many of the characters for their bad decisions. This book had a lot of heart and I could see that a lot of love went into writing this book. It is clever, fun, beautiful, heartbreaking, tragic, and captivating. Meyer is a talented writer who brings these characters to life! My heart broke at the end but that was the point.
Highly Recommend! Go out and read this book and if you don't then "Off with your head! View all 18 comments. May 26, Joelle Throne of books rated it really liked it Shelves: arc-reviews. Back when she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love. While being one of the most beautiful girls in wonderland and a favorite of the King of Hearts, as a talented baker all Catherine wants is to open a bakery with her best friend.
Unfortunately, her parents such a dream is absurd for someone who could be the next queen. Not reciprocating the Kings feelings for her, Catherine meets the mysterious yet handsome court joker, Jest, at the royal ball where the kind is to propose to her. Determined to define her destiny and fall in love on her own terms, she and Jest enter a secret courtship.
The first thing I want to clarify as most people seem to be confused on the matter, is that the Queen of Hearts and the Red Queen are not the same person. People often confuse the two but alas they are not the same. They're both evil Queens yes, but originally the queen of hearts was first introduced in Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's adventures in wonderland' the Red Queen was introduced in 'Alice through the looking Glass' I do believe all this confusion is due to the mispresentation of them in Tim Burton's popular movie adaptation.
That being said I want to thank Marissa Meyer for writing such a wonderful origin story to one of my favorite villains of all time. And I am an even bigger fan of villains. Getting to read Marissa's version of the Queen of Hearts' evil origin was incredible. Catherine was on many levels, one of the most relatable characters I've ever read about.
All she wants is to open up a bakery with her best friend Mary Anne. Baking pastries and delicacies is where her heart belongs. However, her parents want her to seize such silly dreams and focus on other appropriate acts for young ladies such as herself. That includes marrying the King of Hearts. Even though that is not what she wants, Catherine wants her parents disappointment even less.
Catherine's parents are infuriating people. Not once do they stop to ask her if she is happy. Not once do they stop and consider that this might not be what she wants. Her mother, is biggest nightmare of them all. Refusing to speak of anything other than her future wedding and queenly status, she hurts Catherine with her words.
She often chastised her for eating too much or even considering having another bite. Comparing her to a hefty animal. Jest, the mysterious new court joker makes her feel -for the first time- what love really is. He is mysterious, handsome and captivating.
She feels gers left drawn to him from the minute she first sees him, and something inside her starts to bloom. The romance between the two was something that stubbornly latched onto my heart and refused to let go until the very end when it consumed my heart entirely. I tried not to get hopeful considering we all know how the Queen of Hearts ends up but try as I might, it was impossible. The plot of the story is well known of course. Unfortunately the pacing was relatively slow for the majority of the book.
However, as soon as I began the luscious writing pulled me into the story and I couldn't put the book down. I was drawn in completely. Good eve. Cath shut her eyes, her skin writhing. She wanted to get away from them. She opened her eyes in surprise, but the girls and the bells were gone. The glen fell silent. Not a breath, not a breeze. Hatta let out a weary sigh. He approached the entrance to the maze without half as much bounce in his step as before.
Cath wanted to smile, but her nerves were still frazzled. Only once she had stepped past the first wall did a ghostly whisper, three girlish, ghoulish voices, brush across her earlobe.
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