The Looking Glass Wars: An Analysis

In the previous book, The Looking Glass Wars, the queendom’s greatest threat and her top assassin were lost to the Heart Crystal, a portal typically used to send Wonderland’s greatest inventions to influence other world. No one who has ever enter has returned, until now. Seeing Redd, is the second book in the trilogy, The Looking Glass Wars, by Frank Beddor. Will Queen Alyss of Wonderland have to face Redd, her evil aunt who was deprived of her throne, yet again? In the first book of the series, Queen Alyss and Redd battled each other for power over Wonderland. Redd’s top assassin, the Cat, based off of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland’s Cheshire Cat, was battling Alyss’ top guard/ lover, Dodge Anders. Before Redd or the Cat could admit defeat the retreated to the Heart Crystal, not only the source of imagination, a sacred power of many Wonderlanders, but a portal of which no living creature has returned from. In the beginning of Seeing Redd, Alyss meets with the neighboring kingdom’s king, Arch. Arch, a misogynist, strongly believe women should not be in charge. During their meeting it is clear that he is lying, and hiding something. Shortly afterward, Redd’s first choice in weaponry/ military, Glass Eyes, attack Wonderland. But Redd could
Their feelings are kept on the quiet side, but they both come close to voicing their feelings. Also in the previous book, after working hard for over thirteen years, the queen’s body guard and master of weaponry, Hatter Madigan asks for some well deserved time off and is granted his wish. He returns to Mount Isolation, his former home, to find the diary of his dead lover, Weaver. Although they never got to say goodbye, she confesses that she was pregnant with his daughter during his time away, and had to leave his daughter, Molly Homburg, with the refugee camp. He has a daughter, and she is now the queen’s body