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Alice & Chess
The only thing more terrifying than a fall down the rabbit hole...
Is the creature that follows you home.
When fantasy can no longer be fiction,
Wonderland becomes Lucidity.
This time there can be no escape home.
The fairy tale you thought you knew will become the nightmare you could never imagine.
Is the creature that follows you home.
When fantasy can no longer be fiction,
Wonderland becomes Lucidity.
This time there can be no escape home.
The fairy tale you thought you knew will become the nightmare you could never imagine.
- GenresHorror
95 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 29, 2011
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March 22, 2012
Alright, so it's no secret that I'm a big fan of fairy tales with a twist. Make them dark and I'm in love. Alice and Chess? Yep, loved. If you're looking for your happy little girl in a blue dress lost in a beautiful world, you won't find that here. Want to know what happens to Wonderland? J.C. Noir does a fantastic job of taking us into a dismal new Wonderland with characters we've already fallen in love with. Yep, they're all here... Alice, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Queen of Hearts, the twins, even the Caterpillar.
The only thing that sort of stuck with me, though the story was so fast moving and enthralling that it didn't bother me too too much, was the fact that I could have used a bit more character insight.
Having said that, I still loved the story. What did I love just as much? The fact that it looks like this is going to be a series touching on different fairy tales and J.C. Noir has found the perfect way to keep the characters going and keep the story moving smoothly.
This story is full of action and twists that will keep you guessing. I'm giving this one four stars and I can't wait to see what the next story has in store for us.
Memorable Part:
Emotion flooded through Alice at the man's descriptions of her tainted other-world. She could not even remember the faces of most of the creatures she had met.
"What of the Queen, then?" She whispered back to him.
"She still remains."
"Is it her that caused this?"
Chess snatched the small woman by both arms, peering into her with ferociousness that caused a tremor to roll from the back of her neck to her toes.
"You still don't get it, girl, do you? This world is yours! You created this, not the Queen, and not another force you may conjure to rationalize this demoralization of beauty. This is your mistake and yours alone."
The only thing that sort of stuck with me, though the story was so fast moving and enthralling that it didn't bother me too too much, was the fact that I could have used a bit more character insight.
Having said that, I still loved the story. What did I love just as much? The fact that it looks like this is going to be a series touching on different fairy tales and J.C. Noir has found the perfect way to keep the characters going and keep the story moving smoothly.
This story is full of action and twists that will keep you guessing. I'm giving this one four stars and I can't wait to see what the next story has in store for us.
Memorable Part:
Emotion flooded through Alice at the man's descriptions of her tainted other-world. She could not even remember the faces of most of the creatures she had met.
"What of the Queen, then?" She whispered back to him.
"She still remains."
"Is it her that caused this?"
Chess snatched the small woman by both arms, peering into her with ferociousness that caused a tremor to roll from the back of her neck to her toes.
"You still don't get it, girl, do you? This world is yours! You created this, not the Queen, and not another force you may conjure to rationalize this demoralization of beauty. This is your mistake and yours alone."
September 19, 2012
Alice & Chess: Relics of Oz book 1 is written by JC Noir and published through Amazon. A short story at 32,813 words across 242 pages and is split into parts rather than chapters.
JC Noir lives in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania with his daughter. Under the name JC Noir he has also published Solace Through Tragedy: Origins of Oz book 1. A talented photographer JC spends his spare time often creating artwork both for fun and as book covers for himself and other authors.
On Alice’s return from Wonderland she finds herself deemed clinically mad. Locked away for both her own and societies protection she grows up in Wonderlands penitentiary. However Wonderland has changed, now a darker version of itself and known as Lucidity Alice is no longer sure of the line between reality and the magical world she knew as Wonderland.
A mysterious visitor to her cell Alice meets Chess, a man-cat, and with him she sets out once again to thwart the Queen who seeks Alice to destroy her once and for all. But even Chess isn’t the only one to have changed so too has Alice herself.
A world of darkness and death, with influences of cyberpunk and steampunk, old friends must reunite for a new adventure where all is not as it seems and is nothing like it once was.
When innocence changes, it evolves and grows manifesting into something else. When we grow we change, our likes and dislikes, personality etc Did Alice’s growing change Wonderland? And is Lucidity a reflection of her newly created self? What is really going on with regard to the Queen? And why has she taken such a dark and sinister approach in ridding her life of Alice and those who support her.
In a newer darker tale we ask ourselves whether Lucidity/ Wonderland is infact real or really a dream. Perceptions are everything when you are deemed insane but who is really the one who is mad?
Jc Noir has done a marvellous job at transforming the story we all knew and grew up with into something entirely different and its own. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone over the age of 16 and would be interested in reading further novels by this author.
An enthralling read from start to finish I was glued from the very beginning and had the book read within two days.
I give Alice & Chess by JC Noir 4.5 stars.
By R.N. Hadley
(www.rnhadleybookreviews.blogspot.com)
JC Noir lives in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania with his daughter. Under the name JC Noir he has also published Solace Through Tragedy: Origins of Oz book 1. A talented photographer JC spends his spare time often creating artwork both for fun and as book covers for himself and other authors.
On Alice’s return from Wonderland she finds herself deemed clinically mad. Locked away for both her own and societies protection she grows up in Wonderlands penitentiary. However Wonderland has changed, now a darker version of itself and known as Lucidity Alice is no longer sure of the line between reality and the magical world she knew as Wonderland.
A mysterious visitor to her cell Alice meets Chess, a man-cat, and with him she sets out once again to thwart the Queen who seeks Alice to destroy her once and for all. But even Chess isn’t the only one to have changed so too has Alice herself.
A world of darkness and death, with influences of cyberpunk and steampunk, old friends must reunite for a new adventure where all is not as it seems and is nothing like it once was.
When innocence changes, it evolves and grows manifesting into something else. When we grow we change, our likes and dislikes, personality etc Did Alice’s growing change Wonderland? And is Lucidity a reflection of her newly created self? What is really going on with regard to the Queen? And why has she taken such a dark and sinister approach in ridding her life of Alice and those who support her.
In a newer darker tale we ask ourselves whether Lucidity/ Wonderland is infact real or really a dream. Perceptions are everything when you are deemed insane but who is really the one who is mad?
Jc Noir has done a marvellous job at transforming the story we all knew and grew up with into something entirely different and its own. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone over the age of 16 and would be interested in reading further novels by this author.
An enthralling read from start to finish I was glued from the very beginning and had the book read within two days.
I give Alice & Chess by JC Noir 4.5 stars.
By R.N. Hadley
(www.rnhadleybookreviews.blogspot.com)
January 2, 2012
This is an amazingly dark, fantastical cyberpunk take on the aftermath of the awesome tale of Alice and Wonderland. J.C. Noir creates a world gone wrong in place of the Wonderland we all know and love. A new universe now named Lucidity, which was created after Alice returned to her regular life and stemmed from her madness. We find Alice no longer a child but now older and suffering the effects of being labeled insane after no one believes her when she talks about Wonderland. One day in her dark imprisonment, Chess-the now masked cat-man who has come to retrieve her back to the ruin of Lucidity-shows up. He takes her on a psychedelic journey through the despair and ruin of the once colorful land to her ultimate fate. The queen of hearts isn't the same either, but she wants Alice for her own devious devices.
I enjoyed reading this amazing alternate universe of Wonderland. It was twisted, dark and fast paced. Chess and Alice's relationship is pure and tragic
at the same time. You will find yourself lost with Alice through the wreck of this foreboding place. A must-read, novella-length story that is a uniquely imaginative ride with an unpredictable finale.
I read this book as an ARC ebook for review from the author.
I enjoyed reading this amazing alternate universe of Wonderland. It was twisted, dark and fast paced. Chess and Alice's relationship is pure and tragic
at the same time. You will find yourself lost with Alice through the wreck of this foreboding place. A must-read, novella-length story that is a uniquely imaginative ride with an unpredictable finale.
I read this book as an ARC ebook for review from the author.
July 24, 2014
I came across this when I was looking for Alice in wonderland releated books. It sounded good, a darker more adultish version so I bought it, it was slightly darker not as dark as I thought but still darker. It did have some adultish themes like violence, drugs but again it only touches on these subjects. The story line to this book seemed confusing at times but I also felt it was rushed and not enough time given for world or character building, in other words this book need to be longer.
With the feeling of been rushed in my opinion not enough time was spent on building the characters, giving then substance they felt like bit players and I kept waiting for the main characters to arrive. I couldn't picture much in my head as again much not given.
Muchness was lacking.
The story of this book was a great idea and I loved the Alice trapped and chasing down the Red Queen, but not sure about mixing Alice with Oz which seems to be the thing at the moment. But we shall see were it goes.
It was a fun book to read just I felt it needed to be longer and possibly darker.
With the feeling of been rushed in my opinion not enough time was spent on building the characters, giving then substance they felt like bit players and I kept waiting for the main characters to arrive. I couldn't picture much in my head as again much not given.
Muchness was lacking.
The story of this book was a great idea and I loved the Alice trapped and chasing down the Red Queen, but not sure about mixing Alice with Oz which seems to be the thing at the moment. But we shall see were it goes.
It was a fun book to read just I felt it needed to be longer and possibly darker.
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