book review

Alice In Tumblr-Land twists the already popular and stereotypical stories in order to recreate them into a more realistic and relatable novel. It involves Cinderella, Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, Arthur, Sleeping Beauty, Alice, Pinocchio, Aladdin and many more stereotypically dandy fairytale characters. However, these characters have been altered in order to be more realistic thereby imperfect. Whether it is Peter Pan’s addiction to the internet or the sudden change of Mulan becoming Ping, I felt as if the characters had more personality than in the original tales.

Although the novel includes adult themes that made me slightly uncomfortable, I found that there were really deep meanings behind all of the magic and pixie dust. Jack buying magic beans turned out that he was actually never able to be ‘high’ as the first time he climbed the beanstalk and (spoiler) was arrested for being proven guilty of doping. Sleeping Beauty’s real problem as to why she slept a lot was due to her depression that was never actually faced head on. Aladdin believed that if he was rich enough he might have the chance to win back Jasmine. Robin Hood gave up on the thought of assisting the needy as he felt it no longer helped due to the media.