Seeing Redd? I’m Seeing Success.

I’m still getting over the pain of the Clannad movie. And I never even watched it. See what an epic anime will do to you? Well, I learned my lesson. Never use a tag surfer unless you want to be emo in the near future. Well, I’m going to move on for a minute and give you a review on the second book of The Looking Glass Wars-Seeing Redd. I hate to do this yet again, but here goes.
Disclaimer: I do not own The Looking Glass Wars, I have no part in the development process at all. I am just a reader and a reviewer. Don’t sue me Frank Beddor! Honestly, you might get a handful of pocket change if you’re lucky.

Okay, Seeing Redd is the sequel to the unforgetable looking glass wars, which was a spinoff of all of the works of Lewis Carrol (Jabberwocky, Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, etc.) and turned out to be fantastic. In the second installment, there is slightly less action (and I do mean slightly. There is plenty of action here), but there is a much more tied-together plotline. We also learn more backdrops for certain characters, some unexpected character kicks the bucket, and two unexpected (to Alyss, Dodge and crew) characters come back in a certainly unexpected way…at the end, you may be seeing Redd.

My favorite two characters in the book (Homburg Molly and Hatter Madigan) became close in a certain fashion I wasn’t expecting. Alyss and Dodge become closer, and near the end, nobody knows how to use imagination anymore (imagination being their form of ‘magic’. Honestly, think magic.) It makes me wonder how Alyss will defend her Kingdom without her imagination…well, maybe with the crazy assortment of weapons the universe has to offer she has a chance. The weapons created by the author are simply…well, imaginative. Cannonball spiders are spiders that are launched in cannonball form, then erupt into a huge spider. They live long enough to take out a group of enemies, then die out to prevent the spider from trning back on the thrower. Another one of my favorite weapons is the whipsnake grenade, which is thrown, then explodes into electric coils that spray out into a large area. (similar to a normal grenade)

Even with a rather cliffhanger ending, Hatter and Molly’s blade spinning, Alyss’s imagination powers, her guardsmen’s use of crazy weapons and Redd’s recruiting an army of imagination-users from…earth-? Was worth the time more than many other books I’ve spent my time on this year. Don’t let the cover intimidate you (I thought it was awesome)-This book is one that guarantees a non-stop thrillride from beginning to end.

9 out of 10 Arizona green tees.
[Why not higher? Because the ending was rather...unsatisfactory. You'll see when you read it. Very worth the time, though.]

Alex-kun