Review Boost Blitz: Alice of Oz (Portal Fantasy)

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What if Alice’s journey down the rabbit hole took a darker, more unexpected turn? We’re inviting readers and book bloggers to step into the wonderfully twisted world of Alice of Oz by Terence Sullivan, a gothic reimagining of a beloved literary classic, for an exciting Review Boost Blitz!

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Blurb

Wonderland was only the beginning

“An incredibly fresh and imaginative page-turner… Terence Sullivan is a brilliant storyteller.” – Ellen Baker, author of The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson

Wonderland was only the beginning.

London, 1913.

Eighteen-year-old Alice Liddell is confined to Pastoria House, undergoing treatments meant to cure her of Wonderland – visions her doctors insist are delusions. But Pastoria House is no ordinary institution. It is a hidden haven for young witches, and none of them is more closely guarded than Alice. The enigmatic headmistress, Miss Molloy, has bound Alice’s powers to keep her from the her dreams are not madness. They are prophecy.

When Alice meets Wendolyn Darling – another dreamer, bound to her by a connection neither girl can explain – the walls of her small, managed life begin to shift. Wendy speaks of a boy named Peter and an island that cannot be found, with a certainty Alice envies. Then Wendy vanishes. Left in the care of a madwoman whose face is never twice the same and cornered by a malevolent witch, Alice flees the only way left to through a mirror, into the world her dreams had always warned her about.

Oz.

Hunted for powers she doesn’t yet understand, Alice is pursued across the realm by Princess Languidere, who collects the heads of beautiful women and inherits their dreams; the exiled witch Mombi; the clawed gnome legions that rise from the wells at night; and the fallen demigod Lord Roquat, waiting beneath his crystal palace. Her only hope lies with an unlikely fellowship – a shape-shifting prince named Blinkem, whose loyalty deepens into something neither of them planned; an ingenious inventor and his mechanical soldier; a spunky Munchkin girl; and a wild dragon Alice names Dinah.

Together they journey to find Tattypoo, the Great Witch of the North – the one being in Oz who holds the key to Alice’s past. But some secrets were hidden for a reason. And what Alice learns will unmake everything she believes about who she is, where she comes from, and what she was born to do.

A gothic portal fantasy of time-bent identity, maternal magic, and a stolen legacy – where the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, and Neverland were always one story, and it was never finished.

Alice of Oz

Genres: Gothic Portal Fantasy

Format: eBook for all participants

Add it to your TBR if you love:

• Portal fantasy
• classic retelling 
• Wonderland and Oz crossover
• the mad girl who was right all along
• prophetic dreams
• hidden magic school
• institutionalised heroine
• secret heritage
• reluctant chosen one
• quest through a magic land
• found family
• court intrigue
• cursed love interest
• slow burn
• closed door romance 
• villainess POV
• body and identity horror

Comparable Authors/Books/Shows

• ALIX E. HARROW     THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES
• LIBBA BRAY         A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY
• MARISSA MEYER      HEARTLESS
• MELISSA ALBERT     THE HAZEL WOOD
• ERIN MORGENSTERN   THE NIGHT CIRCUS, THE STARLESS SEA
• AVA REID           A STUDY IN DROWNING, JUNIPER AND THORN
• LOUISA MORGAN      A SECRET HISTORY OF WITCHES
• T. KINGFISHER      the gothic horror end, not the cosy end

Trigger Warnings

• Adult dark fantasy, attempted sexual assault on the page, sexual menace and coercion, one explicit scene between antagonists with an incest element, involuntary psychiatric treatment including a forced ice bath, confinement and gaslighting, corporal punishment, beheading, body horror, gore, animal death including a forced on-page killing, a newborn taken from her mother, death of secondary characters, pregnancy in peril. 18+.

Spice Level

• Closed-door romance, but the book is not clean. One explicit scene between antagonists and sexual menace throughout.

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