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    A Blade So Black
    A Blade So Black
    A Blade So Black
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    A Blade So Black

    By L.L. McKinney

    3.5/5

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    "A Blade So Black is the fantasy book I've been waiting for my whole life."
    —Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Hate U Give

    For fans of Marissa Meyer, L.L. McKinney's A Blade So Black delivers an irresistible urban fantasy retelling of Alice in Wonderland... but it's not the Wonderland you remember.
    The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she's trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a curfew.

    Life in real-world Atlanta isn't always so simple, as Alice juggles an overprotective mom, a high-maintenance best friend, and a slipping GPA. Keeping the Nightmares at bay is turning into a full-time job. But when Alice's handsome and mysterious mentor is poisoned, she has to find the antidote by venturing deeper into Wonderland than she’s ever gone before. And she'll need to use everything she's learned in both worlds to keep from losing her head... literally.

    Debut author L.L. McKinney delivers an action-packed twist on an old classic, full of romance and otherworldly intrigue.

    And don't miss the thrilling sequel, A Dream So Dark!

    An Imprint Book

    "Mixing elements of Alice in Wonderland and Buffy the Vampire Slayer... Delectable." —Entertainment Weekly

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateSep 25, 2018
    ISBN9781250153890
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    L.L. McKinney

    Named one of The Root’s 100 Most Influential African-Americans of 2020, L.L. McKinney is a writer, a poet, and an active member of the kidlit community. She’s an advocate for equality and inclusion in publishing, the co-founder of Juneteenth Book Fest, and the creator of the hashtags #PublishingPaidMe and #WhatWOCWritersHear. She’s also a gamer girl and an adamant Hei Hei stan. She is the author of A Blade So Black, A Dream So Dark, and A Crown So Cursed.

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    • 5/5
      What can I say? I absolutely loved this from start to finish. A retelling of Alice in Wonderland but in a darker way. I liked the characters, every single one of them, well apart from one, I am not mentioning his name.
      This is an adventure like no other, Alice can travel from her home town to Wonderland and is assigned to fighting off nightmares and fiends in Wonderland and protecting the Earth from them.
      The story is fast-paced and kept me gripped from the very first page. Then ending though, WOW, guess I will have to preorder the next book in the series as I need to know what happens!
    • 5/5
      MuchnessL.L. McKinney transports the reader into an entertaining and refreshing retelling of Alice in Wonderland in A Blade So Black. After the sudden death of her father, Alice Kingston awakens to the world of human fears turned into monsters. The mysterious Addison Hatta does his best to train her in how to defeat these nightmares. Wonderland is a land of dreams, but the reality of the endless battle before her may be too much to handle. Alice must work through her hurt, to save the world from its own horror.L.L. McKinney jumps right into the action, laying down the world building foundation of the story quickly. After the death of her father, Alice is left with sadness, anger, and a “billion other emotions”. She struggles a lot with these consuming feelings, and repurposes them into fighting monsters. Though, she finds that she cannot fight fear with anger. And the choices she makes effect not only her, but her family and friends. Alice has an edgy and serious tone of voice. So brief warning for strong language, as well as throwing up, and nausea when she travels to Wonderland. The handsome Addison adds some levity to all the seriousness, who Alice calls a “punk rock Prince Charming”. Addison speaks in Wonderland terms, which gives him a whimsical and slightly mad personality. He is a great encourager, showing Alice that she can be more than her fears. Alice’s friend Cortney Marrone’ keeps her grounded in reality, aka gossip, with the help of the handsome Chess.This book is full of all the nostalgia, quirks, and characters needed in an Alice in Wonderland retelling. L.L. McKinney creates even more places and creatures inspired by Wonderland. Which gives this story some fun moments in between the darker aspects of the dream inspired world. With plenty of fun nerdy pop culture references.
    • 4/5
      Alice in Wonderland fans will love this one, but this one is also good for Alice newbies as well! the adventure and action is quick paced and world building is phenomenal. It is somewhat of a retelling of Alice in Wonderland, with fighting elements and action sequences that makes you want to keep reading.I love Alice since chapter one. Not only because she's head strong and has a great fighting personality, but also if you're on the somewhat geeky side like she is, you'll love the Sailor Moon references (I saw what you did there) I absolutely loved it! she's likable, a fighter, loves her friends and will fight for them when push comes to shove. (Or more in her case) you have to admire her ability to multi task (albeit..it a little over her head) between real world, and other world stuff. Not to mention school, a best friend to please, and an over protective mom.There are lots of likable characters in this book. I couldn't really choose a favorite. Courtney is a great supporting character, Addison is another close one to love, not to mention the Russian twins. So many diverse and likable characters, it's so hard to dislike any of them. The plot is very well done and the flow of it does not stop. It's almost like a roller coaster, with moments where the action quiets down and we have character development in play, and it immediately spikes up with a fighting sequence and it keeps the momentum. Great pacing, and it keeps the reader going. I absolutely loved this book. Picking up the sequel soon.
    • 5/5
      Black Buffy (really "Alice") slays Nightmares in Wonderland. This retelling of Alice in Wonderland is modern and dangerous. McKinney has fantastic world building with great descriptions of Wonderland and the magic that comes with it. Within the fantastic world, she manages to still create believable characters with emotional moments and times of genuine peril.
    • 4/5
      Alice meets Addison Hatta when she is attacked by a Nightmare. Since she is able to see it and him, he recruits her to become a Dreamwalker. She protects our world and Wonderland by killing Nightmares. She's in high school living a double life--here and in Wonderland. This causes trouble because time moves differently there than here. Mothers don't like it when daughters stay out all night.

      Most of the story takes place in Wonderland. Alice starts stressing about her double life, but keeps sneaking out. Why she doesn't just tell her mother I don't know. This ends on a cliffhanger, unfortunately. I was hoping for a one and done retelling of Alice in Wonderland.
    • 4/5
      I loved Alice. And her mom. My one wish was for a little more about her mom later in the book, with the danger ratcheting up. Also, I LOVE Alice and Courtney's friendship; it was one of my favorite things about the book. This is a really satisfying read, and I'd recommend it for fans of The Looking Glass War by Frank Beddor or (as a bunch of others also suggest) Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
    • 2/5
      This is an updated version of Alice in Wonderland, with a rather interesting worldbuilding conceit and an African-American protagonist. I'm glad it exists, because young black women need representation too, and let's face it, Lewis Carroll's original version was pretty squicky in places. But this book didn't knock my socks off, and there are a couple of reasons why.First, the good. This version of Wonderland is based on a fascinating premise--it is humanity's collective unconscious, its dreams and nightmares, made flesh. The inhabitants literally depend on humans for their continued existence. Some of those inhabitants are spawned by and feed upon humanity's fears, and these Nightmares can, after a certain point, cross the barrier between Wonderland and our world. When that happens, only certain humans, called Dreamwalkers, can kill them permanently. Dreamwalkers like Alice. Now, the not so good. Obviously this world owes a lot to Carroll's original, but it owes even more to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (Alice is called a "black Buffy" by her best friend, Courtney, which is a rather startling bit of meta commentary.) In so doing, it reveals what I think has become a tiresome trope of teenage slayer-dom: the running conflict with a parent or guardian who doesn't know what the Slayer/Dreamwalker/whatever is doing. Alice's mother obviously loves her daughter, but the only glimpses we get of her are her fighting with Alice/grounding Alice/trying to rein Alice in, which gets repetitive and shallow after a while. Look, parents aren't dumb, and even Buffy's mother had to learn the truth eventually. (Not to mention the fact that between school, work and patrolling, Buffy and her descendants are awake pretty much 24/7, and their superpowers should be living without sleep rather than kickass superstrength.) In this case, with Alice being African-American, I think an opportunity was wasted. I would rather Alice's mother be let in on her secret, and the prime conflict, in addition to the Nightmares, instead be the unfortunate and sick reality of this nation: that of Walking, Working and Living While Black. I think this would have made for a better book. Secondly, Alice herself is not a strong character, particularly in the first half of the story. Frankly, she whines, cries and reacts rather than acts, and it's only in the latter half of the book, when she steps up and begins taking charge, that she starts to get interesting. One could argue that this character arc is precisely what's supposed to happen, and maybe so, but it is not very well written. Throughout much of the book, Courtney, Addison Hatta and others are better written than the supposed protagonist, which is a problem. Alice's characterization does improve as the book goes along, but I would rather have an entire book with a well-realized main character, instead of half a book. So this is just a so-so recommendation. As I said, I'm very glad this book has been published. I just wish it was better than it is.

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    • 4/5
      Alice can fight Nightmares, monsters from the other side, trained and assisted by her mentor Hatta (another helper is Maddy, heh). But her recently widowed mother is suspicious and fearful (especially after another young black girl is killed by the police) and replacing all the ruined clothes isn’t cheap. When a greater threat comes out of the other side—the Black Knight, seeking to get the power that the Black Queen used to exercise—she has to fight for her friends here as well as there. An interesting variation on Alice in Wonderland x Buffy (one of her friends lampshades the latter, though nobody seems to know about the classic Alice in Wonderland).
    • 5/5
      This is the most pure *fun* I've had with a book in a long time - an Alice-in-Wonderland flavored portal fantasy with a badass black girl protagonist, great side characters, and a driving plot. My one complaint is that it ends on a cliffhanger and now I'm gonna have to wait for the next book to come out.
    • 3/5
      This ticked so many boxes for me.

      Urban Fantasy? Check.
      Girl With Sword? Check.
      Better yet, Black Girl With Sword? Check. Check. Check.
      Alice in Wonderland Pastiche? Check.

      And it worked in so many of these areas, but it didn't work (for me) as an Alice pastiche. Had the author stripped away all the Alice references, this would have been a really good teen Urban Fantasy and my reaction would have been very different. But, when you're selling something as a riff on Lewis Carroll, then that aspect needs to work as well as, if not better than, everything else. And, here, unfortunately, that just isn't the case. The characters inspired by Carroll's characters are inspired in name only and bear little resemblance to their namesakes in their behavior or role in the plot. The plot itself doesn't hit the same beats as the original books, either and nor is there any of Carroll's playful wit. Again, as a YA Urban Fantasy, it was really good, but if you're marketing a book as an Alice in Wonderland retelling or pastiche, then it needs to feel like an Alice book, and this just didn't.

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    A Blade So Black - L.L. McKinney

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