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Wonder
Wonder | Christina C. Jones
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It all came down to me.The one who followed the rules, never went looking for trouble - I kept to myself. I just wanted to take care of my family. To not constantly look over my shoulder, worried about the things that went bump in the night.I just wanted to survive.But that wasn't meant to be.As luck - or fate, or something - would have it, the trouble found me.I followed a rabbit through the wreckage of a half-ruined world to get back what was mine, and wound up at the end of it.In Wonderland.But there's nothing magical about it.(While Wonder does feature a central love story, it is not a contemporary romance novel)
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"All our science and technology and politics and meant nothing once [the earth] decided she wanted us off, that we'd done too much and gone too far" (9).⠀
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Christina C. Jones's Wonder is a compelling novel that successfully weaves together several threads: a re-telling of Alice in Wonderland; a dystopian novel that takes on class conflict and environmental concerns; and a romance between two strong characters. ⬇️

UnabridgedPod Her website, beingmrsjones.com, says she is known for "seamlessly weav[ing] the complexities of modern life into captivating tales of black romance," and this novel certainly fulfills that goal.⠀
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Alyson Little lives with her sister, Nadiah, in the Mids, the heavily regulated, middle-class section of the former United States. ⬇️ 4y
UnabridgedPod It sits--economically and geographically--between the Burrows and the Apex, where Aly goes each day for her job at a salon. Aly stays far away from the Burrows; she has never set foot in the lawless, grubby underbelly of her world, relieved that her home lies in relative safety. That all changes when Nadiah's friend Bunny tells Aly that Nadiah has been injured searching the ruins of the former San Francisco's Bay Bridge ⬇️ (edited) 4y
UnabridgedPod and is hiding out in an abandoned house. Aly and Bunny rush to her aid and find an empty house and a trail that leads directly into the Burrows.⠀
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It's in the Burrows that Aly meets an array of characters correlating to Lewis Carroll's creations AND discovers that what the government has said about this other world may not be true. This revelation leads Aly to be questioning all of the truths that have shaped her worldview and her own identity.⬇️ 4y
UnabridgedPod I thoroughly enjoyed Jones's re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland, the clever ways that she envisions them as fitting into this new world. The romance here is satisfying, the world building is strong, and the questions the novel poses provoke thoughts relevant to our current situation.⠀
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What are some of your favorite re-tellings of classics? 4y
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