Seeing Redd: The Looking Glass Wars, Book 2 - Frank Beddor
More violent battles, less clever than the first.
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- Author:Frank Beddor
- # of pages: 371
- Publisher:Dial Books
- Original Publication Date: 08/14/2007
- Genre: Fiction - Fantasy
- Hardcover: $17.99
- Publisher's Recommended Reading Level: 10
- Read Aloud: 10
- Read Alone: 11
Parents need to know
Families can talk about the idea of imagination used as a weapon. What would be its limits? What makes Redd's more powerful than Alyss'? How could it be overcome?
Message
Social Behavior:
Consumerism:
Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco:
Drinking and drunkenness, smoking cigarettes and a hookah, drugs are used as weapons, and imaginary recreational drugs are referred to.
Violence
Lots, some gruesome, including fingers being bitten off, many battles, many deaths.
Sex
A kiss.
Language
Common Sense says
What's the story?
Reviewed by Matt Berman
Meanwhile, Redd is planning a new assault, and gathering a new army on Earth and in Boarderland, where she may be teaming up with the king. And she has discovered a way to enhance her powers of Black Imagination far beyond Alyss' own formidable White Imagination.
Is it any good?
Instead we get nearly nonstop battles and scheming, which, of course, some readers will love. Redd's sojourn on Earth, where she gathers the dregs of humanity (many of whom turn out to be exiled Wonderlanders) is amusing, and the climactic battle is epic and exciting. But there's a flatness to much of the proceedings that would seem to indicate an author who used much of his best ideas in the first book. Let's hope he has a few more surprises up his sleeve for the next one.
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First Book in this Series:
The Looking Glass Wars
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This Is Based On:
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
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