Dark High Fantasy retelling of Alice in Wonderland. For me personally, that's all that needs to be said. Alice is a 26-year old woman that got put into a mental institution (more like prison for the mentally ill) after getting away from a traumatic experience and people not believing her. Her only company for ten years has been Hatcher, the patient in the next cell, who gets plagued by dreams and visions of a horrible monster. When the hospital/prison goes up in flames, Alice and Hatcher manage to escape, but so does the Jabberwock, the monster that Alice believed not to be real before. Having lost most of their memories due to either the drugs they had been given or their own brains trying to protect them from trauma, the two of them go on a journey through the city to try and defeat the Jabberwock as well as make sense of their own pasts (and potentially take revenge). The way elements, both character- and plot-wise, from [b:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass|24213|Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass|Lewis Carroll|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1630487234l/24213._SX50_.jpg|2375385] get incorporated as well as blended in with new elements is fascinating and works really well. I thoroughly enjoyed Alice's journey of discovery of her own self and the world, and her development of how she sees the world as well as who she is and who she wants to be. The romance didn't really hook me all that much. I do not mind it, as I still liked the relationship between Alice and Hatcher, but I didn't actually care for the romantic aspects of it. Definitely recommend this book for fans of Alice in Wonderland (especially the Tim Burton movie adaption), but with a content warning for (attempted) rape.