Insanity Review

I finally finished Insanity by Cameron Jace! 

(Summary - After accidentally killing everyone in her class, Alice Wonder is now a patient in the Radcliffe Lunatic Asylum. No one doubts her insanity. Only a hookah-smoking professor believes otherwise; that he can prove her sanity by decoding Lewis Carroll's paintings, photographs, and find Wonderland's real whereabouts. Professor Caterpillar persuades the asylum that Alice can save lives and catch the wonderland monsters now reincarnated in modern day criminals. In order to do so, Alice leads a double life: an Oxford university student by day, a mad girl in an asylum by night. The line between sanity and insanity thins when she meets Jack Diamonds, an arrogant college student who believes that nonsense is an actual science)

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I loved this book and Alice Wonder! The story had me hooked to the end and to be honest, my last thought when I was finished, "Nooooooo, it can't be done! He can't leave it like that! I need more, must have more!" :)

If you love retellings and Alice in wonderland this book is worth reading. It's definitely different from other Alice retellings I've read and I have to say that the story and the insane lot of characters draw you in till the end. It also leaves you guessing who is really insane and who isn't? And who is exactly a friend, and just who is a foe? Seriously, I need more and can't wait for the next book!

Wow, I haven't reviewed a book in awhile. :/ I do believe it is time for me to get back on the saddle, and I have the perfect book in mind, The Poe Consequence by Keith Steinbaum. I love books like this and cannot wait to read it. I'm hoping to receive a review copy of this book, if I don't get one I'll be going out and buying a copy at my local Barnes and Nobles.

The Poe Consequence

by Keith Steinbaum

In a section of Los Angeles near Dodger Stadium, two rival gangs rule the streets. For the Alvarado Street Diablos, it's been a year since the murder of one of their closest members at the hands of their sworn enemy, the North Rampart Lobos. A drive-by killing in his honor is planned, but things go wrong and an innocent bystander is the victim. Several hours later the one who pulled the trigger suffers a horrifying death, caused by something never before seen in its uniqueness. Many more such cases follow, all involving only these two gangs among the hundreds throughout the city. And each death occurs at the same time of day. The "exact" same time of day.

What can these two enemies do to survive against an unstoppable power intent on their mutual destruction? How is a gang-hating young boy's attempt to save the life of a gang member tied into preventing a loved one's soul from eternal damnation? What does a mysterious psychic's prophecy conveyed earlier in New Orleans have to do with all of this?

Exploring both the darkness and hope that define our emotions, "The Poe Consequence" integrates social and ethnic divisions through acts of fate and supernatural horror for the reader to observe and imagine.