Insanity

by Cameron Jace

• ASIN: B00HFE668Y
• Publish Date: 2014
• Publish Status: Unknown
• Format: eBook (Kindle)
• Pages: 247
• Language: English

Reviews

[maggiefan]

Don't get me wrong, I liked the book. I would even say that I really enjoyed the concept, but the execution... Not so much.
I felt like the plot had a potential, but it was kind of wasted. The villain could have been more interesting, but, unfortunately, I wasn't scared of him in the slightest.
Also the ending was anticlimactic. I would have enjoyed the book more if it was intense and shocking.
But I enjoyed the main character of the story - Alice. She was fierce and kind. I liked that you could not really tell if she's actually insane.
Overall I think that this whole series has a lot of potential and I am interested to know what is next.

[melanchalina]

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[clairelm]

Wow. Ummm.... I think Insanity is a great way to describe this book!

I was a little unsure at first as it's shelved as horror and I don't like horror. But this was fantastic. I loved all the references to Wonderland and Lewis Carroll and I learnt lots about them both.

Alice is at the start of an interesting journey, one where she discovers what being insane really means and whether being insane is preferable over not. While the asylum is a horrendous place, it contrasts sharply against the reality of the world that faces Alice outside.

And I loved the inclusion of Tiger Lily :)

[kalventure]

Creative imagining of a mad world: five stars

"I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then" reads the tattoo on Alice Pleasant Wonder's arm, a nineteen year old girl in an asylum. She is told that she is there because she murdered all of her classmates, but she doesn't remember anything from before the accident. This book starts a wondertastic adventure outside, where she and Cater Pillar (Pilla da Killa) aim to save the world from the Wonderland Monsters and in the process uncover the secrets of her past.

Einstein once said, 'Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.'

This book, and series, uses insanity and madness to delve into things that affect our every day lives. And while the books are far from cerebral, there are nuggets of philosophical thought that you can read deeper into. It is a tough feat to write something accessible to all but also pose questions for deeper thinking. What is reality? If we are but a sum of experiences, who are we if we do not remember who we were the day prior?

Wow, I was very impressed by this book. It was exciting and gave just enough clues and twists that you just had to turn the page to find out what was gonna happen next.

It's been a very long time since I read Alice in Wonderland and I have a vague memory about the characters. I liked that the author told just enough about the characters in wonderland to get you familiar with who Alice was dealing with. I also love the history that they told about Lewis Carroll, I never knew any of that. And the way the Author weaved history with his storyline, it was all done beautifully.

I haven't read a story like this before and I would definitely recommend this book to anybody. It was new and fresh and I really enjoyed it.

I was given this book by the author for an honest review.

[limabean74]

My Review:

Where to start...I guess at the beginning will do just fine. With a bit of quirkiness and a lot of madness I was ready to jump into this book expecting a wild and crazy trip to wonderland. Well, we didn’t go to wonderland and it was 100% completely insane and I actually liked it a lot more than I thought I would. This book was picked for me by all of you for my To-Be-Read List feature.

Alice is insane…well not the real alice….or is she? After killing all of her school friends, Alice is sent to an asylum for the insane by the courts but Alice doesn’t remember killing anyone and she isn’t sure why she is even in the asylum. It seems when Alice was younger she took a trip to wonderland and her family needs her to forget about it so that she can be released and come home. Some of the patents in the Asylum have a strong resemblance to characters in Wonderland. With the help of a Serial Killer Carter Piller Alice goes on a wild ride trying to catch a killer who just so happens to be the Cheshire Cat. Could all this be real is everyone she meets along the way really be people from Wonderland?…..Is she really Alice.

So you don’t actually take a trip to Wonderland for me it was more the asylum was wonderland and the characters throughout the book are characters from the book just placed into the real world. I honestly thought this was a very interesting retelling of Alice in Wonderland. I thought the riddles or the problems that Alice needed to solve were very complex and a lot of interesting references to Lewis Carroll some things I didn’t know about him so it was a little difficult for me to solve anything and I found the help that the Piller gave her was rather making it easy for her to figure things out. It gave her no challenge or at least what was the point of her being there if he could solve all the riddles for her.

I actually enjoyed Alice very much but I was quite fond of Jack Diamond I honestly wanted more of him in this book. I found all the characters to be very interesting but once I was finished I still have a lot of questions that I felt were unanswered. I am hoping this story continue, I thought it was interesting how it ended but it almost felt final. It actually made me feel mental for a couple days.

Insanity turned out to be a lot better than I thought it would be. I gave it 4/5 stars. Strange and interesting story with off the wall and wacky characters. This is my first book of Cameron Jace and I feel like I need to read more of his work. I would for sure recommend this if you are looking for something different and insane :)

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