Hello, my lovely readers!
Today I'm going to introduce you to this amazing new release Toxic Wonderland by Crea Reitan. It's the first book in the Chronicles of Blood series. Rest of the books are coming out this Autumn, so you don't have to wait long to read on.
Toxic Wonderland is a dark reverse harem romance. There is explicit sex scenes, blood, murder and magic. There is also some MM and MMF sex scenes.
Blurb:
Mal is a Fixer, a child raised and trained to “fix” broken fairy tales by an organization the Fixers refer to as DeadEnd. Because, once you enter a fairy tale, there’s no getting out.
Mal has been assigned Wonderland. You know Wonderland, the place Alice visited as a child. Wonderland, with a Mad Hatter and a Cheshire Cat. Wonderland, who has consumed twenty-seven Fixers before Mal and has been dubbed “toxic” by the Operators of DeadEnd. But Wonderland needs to be fixed. It’s been toxic so long that every Wonderland story in the real world is being transformed into something entirely not child friendly.
After training for eleven years and studying every re-telling of Lewis Carroll’s classic, Mal leaves the world behind and enters her very own dead-end fairy tale. Well… everything is certainly twisted. The people are broken; the Bloody Queens’ reign has thrown the world into turmoil and upset the balance; and the places are, quite frankly, mad.
At least she found a few mostly sane, entirely gorgeous men to help her along the way. Help her re-write this fairy tale back to its original wonder. And perhaps help her build a life in Wonderland for when she succeeds - because she is determined to do what the other twenty-seven have not been able to.
Everything seemed pretty straight forward, and going pretty smoothly until she realized the fairy tale she’d been sent in to fix is actually infected by another…
My Review:
Toxic Wonderland is a brilliant adaptation of a much-loved classic. It's also quite different from the other ones I have read.
Loved the characters and they are not what you expect. They are so twisted from the original but still quite lovable. It was fun trying to guess who was who because sometimes I, couldn't immediately place the characters to the original story. It was also fun trying to guess, who will end up in the harem.
The beginning was a little bit slower than the rest of the story. It was mostly setting up the characters and plot. The action picked up almost immediately, and this book had a lot of it. It was a wild ride from the beginning to the end.
There was a lot of travelling and introducing places and characters. I already love some of them.
Lots of steam and sexy times.
This book ends in a cliffhanger, and it left me shooked. After finishing this book, all I could think was I need more now.
*Mild spoiler*
Loved how the author included other fairytales to this dark Wonderland. It made this toxic version stand out even more.
*Spoiler over*
I will give this book 4,5/5 stars and would recommend it if you like darker retellings.
I received a free ARC copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review. All opinions are my own.
I hope you all have a wonderful day and stay safe!
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