A Blade So Black by L L McKinney

A Blade So Black (Nightmare-Verse, #1)

by L L McKinney

The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she’s trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a curfew.

Life in real-world Atlanta isn’t always so simple, as Alice juggles an overprotective mom, a high maintenance best friend, and school. Keeping the Nightmares at bay is turning into a full-time job. But when Alice’s handsome and mysterious mentor is poisoned, she has to find the antidote by venturing deeper into Wonderland than she’s ever gone before. And she’ll need to use everything she’s learned in both worlds to keep from losing her head...literally.

Reviewed by stressedrach on

5 of 5 stars

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What can I say? I absolutely loved this from start to finish. A retelling of Alice in Wonderland but in a darker way. I liked the characters, every single one of them, well apart from one, I am not mentioning his name.
This is an adventure like no other, Alice can travel from her home town to Wonderland and is assigned to fighting off nightmares and fiends in Wonderland and protecting the Earth from them.
The story is fast-paced and kept me gripped from the very first page. Then ending though, WOW, guess I will have to preorder the next book in the series as I need to know what happens!

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