Heartless

Heartless

by Marissa Meyer

(Feiwel & Friends, 2016); audiobook read by Rebecca Soler (Macmillan, 2019)

Book cover: “Heartless” by Marissa Meyer (Feiwel & Friends, 2016); audiobook read by Rebecca Soler (Macmillan, 2019)

Meyer seems delighted to revisit Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland but relies on it too much. Stripped of rehash the original content is torturously belaboured, seeding a mystery for dullards and styling a plodding romance that fails utterly to convince as the Queen’s backstory.

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