Review: Looking Glass Girl - Cathy Cassidy
Looking Glass Girl is a junior fiction novel aimed at girls aged 9-14 years . Are you a fan of Alice in Wonderland and don't mind touching on edgy subjects, then this is the book for you.
Once upon a time there were three best friends Elaine, Yasmin and Alice - right until the summer before they left for junior high , they were the best of friends - the three muskateers. That was until Alice decided to give Drama a go and managed to land the lead role in the school play Alice in Wonderland in which she starred against the hottest guy in the school Luke whom Elaine had a crush on. After the play though, things for Alice went down the rabbit hole as her friends started excluding her and soon was the new year at a new school and Alice had been dumped by her friends who had also dropped and changed their names up a bit to Lainey and Yaz. Lainey and Yaz became good friends with Savannah - whom was a bully and also the Queen Bee of Popularity. Alice chucked herself into drama and soon caught the attention of Savannah - this lead to a sleepover at Savannah's house and then disaster struck and Alice found herself tumbling once again down the rabbit''s hole. Looking Glass Girl is told in three parts - the before ( which is the lead up to events that happened) , the present ( which is currently happening ) and the future ( after the accident). This is where the Alice in Wonderland part comes through as due to the accident Alice is in a coma and she is playing out the part of Alice in Wonderland in her mind . One of the more edgier parts is what happened after the accident and how they all ended where they were and the author does show just how jealousy can be a powerful and negative tool and how it can lead to dangerous events occuring and sometimes the events, you can never take back what has happened.
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