ENSNARED

Alyssa Gardner prepares to wage war on mad Queen Red, rescue her two loves and restore weirdness to Wonderland in this third and final book.

With her mom trapped in a diseased Wonderland and her loves—human Jeb and netherling Morpheus—sucked into the prison-world AnyElsewhere with her enemy, Queen Red, Alyssa simultaneously tries to resolve her relationship woes and save the world. After restoring her father’s memories and meeting his gatekeeping brothers, Alyssa and her father dive into the mutant-filled, landscape-shifting AnyElsewhere. But rescue proves difficult as artistic, tattooed and pierced, abuse survivor Jeb proves addicted to his new powers of creation and reluctant to hurt or be hurt by Alyssa again. Erratically English and sinisterly seductive Morpheus further complicates matters with his continual striving to wed Alyssa and rule Wonderland. Alyssa suffers literal heartbreak over Jeb and Morpheus and goes power mad while fighting Red but does so in trademark sartorial splendor. Alyssa’s observation, “how convoluted the rules are. Nothing in Wonderland is simple,” also applies to the novel, which is rife with unnecessary and nonsensical plot twists, darker than its predecessors—more gory than Gorey—and filled with unsettling sadism and borderline erotica.

A visually rich but tortuous conclusion meant for hard-core fans of the goth-chic series.