Want to play chess?
An epidemic of perpetual sleep threatens to drive the world mad...
Are you good at it?
Unless Alice and the Pillar can solve a global chess game where every world leader plays to save their own country.
Good enough to play for your life?
Designed by the one Wonderland monster who knows what the Six Impossible keys are for, Alice will have to risk the lives of millions to expose his secret.
But that's the least of Alice's fears. She is about face a monster who is on nobody's side, but his. A monster who shares a terrible past with her she can't quite remember. A past that will deepen her struggles with her identity and the things she'd done - and is about to do.
On the other hand Inspector Dormouse is about to discover why Pilla da Killa killed 12 people in cold blood. A discovery that he may soon regret.
Will Alice walk the white tiles of the chessboard of life again like she did in the Vatican? Will she triumph over her sins in the past? Will she find love again? Is she really destined to kill the Pillar? And most important of all, who is Carter Pillar, really.
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(Storykiller Publishing, 21 March 2016, 291 pages, e-book, # popsugarreadingchallenge 2020, a book with the same title as a TV show but is unrelated to it, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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I loved the first book in the series, Insanity which I read when it first came out. I'm a huge fan of Alice in Wonderland. Jace did something different with this well-loved story. But I felt the spark faded a little with book. Maybe the series has just gone on too long and the premise has been stretched beyond capacity? There are another three books to read but I'm not sure I can face them. This is also supposed to be the first season so there may be more books. I don't think I can face those either. The issue is that these don't do well as stand-alone books because they're so linked together. I barely remember what happened in other books in the series so I was confused a lot of the time. That's on me. I shouldn't have waited so long to read the book. As ever, the book is fast paced, full of twists and a bit crazy. I just felt too disconnected from it.
