She smoothed her fingers over the rusty red splotch on her shirt. It wasn’t why her chest went all tight, like the space was suddenly too small for her lungs. Yeah, that inky shit stank to high heaven, but that wasn’t why her eyes started to water. “And what is that smell?”Īlice stared at the stains. Then walk in here covered in lord knows-what is that mess?” Mom flapped a hand at Alice, indicating the black splattered against her clothes and skin. Now I’m missing work, and for what? For what, Alison? Knowing I didn’t raise you like this, knowing this wasn’t gone fly. “Got the school calling me ’cause you decided you just wasn’t gone show up, I guess. Fire licked at the center of her face, and a feeling like fingers around her neck closed off her throat.
“No, ma’am,” Alice managed, louder this time, the words thick with the emotions coursing through her. “No, ma’am.” Alice’s voice sounded as small as she felt in the face of her mom’s fury.Ī little muscle in Mom’s jaw jumped as she ground her teeth together. Like you pay bills, do you pay bills?” Mom whirled on Alice, who had pressed so far back against the couch she felt she might slip between the cushions and be lost. This alone was a sign Alice was well and truly screwed. She’d kicked off her heels and abandoned one near the door while the other lay over by the fireplace. Just doing whatever you please.” Mom paced in front of the coffee table, her steps barely muted by the carpet. All she could do was sit there as her mother went. "A dark, thrilling fantasy-meets-contemporary story with a kickass heroine.Alice couldn’t run. "A dark, thrilling fantasy-meets-contemporary story with a kickass heroine." - Bustle a delectable urban twist on beloved fairy tales." - Entertainment Weekly "Mixing elements of Alice in Wonderland and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
This Poet is looking to claim the Black Queen's power-and Alice's budding abilities-as their own.ĭreams have never been so dark in Wonderland, and if there is any hope of defeating this mystery poet's magic, Alice must confront the worst in herself, in the people she loves, and in the very nature of fear itself. There's a new player on the board a poet capable of using Nightmares to not only influence the living but raise the dead.
It's not until she's at her wits end that she realizes-Wonderland is trying to save her. But the deeper she ventures into Wonderland, the more topsy-turvy everything becomes. Still reeling from her recent battle (and grounded until she graduates), Alice must abandon her friends to complete her mission: find The Heart and prevent the Red Lady's rise. McKinney's A Dream So Dark, the thrilling sequel to A Blade So Black, Alice goes deeper into a dark version of Wonderland. Alice is Black Girl Magic personified." - Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Hate U Give "With memorable characters and page-turning thrills, A Blade So Black is the fantasy book I've been waiting for my whole life.
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