I finally finished Seeing Redd last night and it was one of the best books I read the last couple of months. Granted, I have not been reading that much lately, but everything else still paled in comparison to the spectacle that was Frank Beddor's second LGW novel.
To give an impression of the series: Imagine Star Wars
Now transfer that to Lewis Carroll's Wonderland, or at least something that mostly resembles it.
You have your young prodigy that has lost her parents (our protagonist, Alyss Heart); her childhood love and brave palace guard (Dodge Anders) and a malevolent force bent on taking over as the 'rightful ruler' of Wonderland (enter long lost aunt Redd, nee Rose)
The sequence goes as expected, princess defeated, sent into exile to Earth and the entirity of the Queendom goes to ruins. She lives for 13 years as Alice Liddell and inspires Charles 'Lewis C' Dodgson to write a novel. Returning in secret, she defeats her aunt with the aid of her loyal followers, Dodge, advisor Bibwit Harte and her personal bodyguards, Hatter Madigan and Homburg Molly.
Redd escapes, with her most trusted assassin, by jumping into a maelstrom of power.
This, of course, is just a short summary of the first part of the Looking Glass Wars, the book of the same name.
The second book continues in the same vein, with conspiracies, Dark Imagination, razor card rifles, whip-grenades and everything you might find in a science fiction novel instead of this more fantasy themed setting.
Now it will be a long wait until the third book is finally released, but that just leaves me more time to reread the other two and reacquaint myself with reverend Dodgson's books.
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