Alice

I have been burned by Alice retellings before and can say that the ones that do it RIGHT are the ones that are not afraid to stray from the source material and to recreate existing characters. Henry does that here. This almost feels original, and if it wasn't Alice in Wonderland at all-the world-building Henry did here would stand on its own. Gangs running the streets of an outer-city world. It almost plays out like a video game with a different boss to be beaten in turn.
Where the story dragged a touch for me was the constant road trip feel to it. I was tired of reading how tired Alice and Hatcher were. The garden maze went on for way too long.
There are oddities around every corner and the fact that Alice is kind of smacked ass is excusable because she was in an institution for a decade and never matured.
I will be reading Red Queen when it comes out!