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Mar 01, 2024Seerat13 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I loved this re-telling of Alice in Wonderland. The romance between Catherine and Jest was so sweet! The ending was so sad though!
Nov 01, 2023amelias_novels rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Loved this book, it was so intriguing, exciting, and had so many turns. The character development was crazy but in a way that you wouldn't really expect. It's not necessarily a happy book, but I still loved it. Marissa Meyer's novels are…
Aug 26, 2023mheigre rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Heartless is the origin story of the Queen of Hearts for Alice in Wonderland. It is a mix of fantastical and romance. Heartless is actually Marissa Meyer's first teen stand-alone novel. Catherine is the Marques' daughter, a king's…
May 18, 2023violet_cat_13528 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Summary: The story of the Queen of Hearts. The story of how a girl’s sweet dream of opening the best bakery in Hearts, turned sour. As the King’s favorite, Catherine obtained the favor of the unmarried king, but everything changes when she…
Dec 13, 2022Sarah_Smiles rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I loved Marissa Meyer's other books so I decided to try this one, but I just couldn't get into it. The premise really sold me, because I like retellings of fairy tales a lot, but the writing style was just so dense! I'm sure it's a great…
Sep 27, 2022Hkelsey rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I knew where the story was going to end but I hoped the whole time that things would work out. Good book!
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Aug 06, 2022sarim_ahmad rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
An amazing retelling of Alice and wonderland. The book starts of with a girl named Catherine that wants find love and open a bakery. This book starts off slow but really picks up half way through. The author uses great storytelling and…
Jun 19, 2022joybean_ rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I read this book because of booktok and to be honest, I wasn't that impressed. It's one of those books that only reveals the good of it in the last 50 pages. The Wonderland world aesthetics is considerably interesting by definitely not my…
Jun 08, 2022junebook_0 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
From Marissa Meyer’s retelling of the iconic fairy tale, “Alice in Wonderland”, she explores the journey of a young girl, Cath who lives in the jolly kingdom of Hearts. While Cath originally had her heart set on opening her own bakery, her…
Jun 07, 2022Julia_Ebmeier rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Heartless is an amazing book that follows our main character Catherine Pinkerton. It has just interesting and unique characters and is a really interesting take on the Queen of Hearts' back story. It really puts a new perspective onto…
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May 02, 2022BrantTeenReviewers rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The story follows Catherine and the events that lead up to her becoming the infamous antagonist of the classic novel Alice in Wonderland. The book is full of quirky elements that make Wonderland charming. I particularly enjoyed reading…
Feb 17, 2022icicle28 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The story follows Catherine, a talented baker determined to fulfill her lifelong dream: opening a bakery with her best friend. However, noticing the unmarried King of Hearts’ favoritism, Cath’s parents have other ideas in mind. In this…
Feb 09, 2022RazeenaM rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Catherine Pinkerton loves nothing more than baking and dreams of opening a bakery one day with her best friend. But her mom has other plans: Catherine is to wed the King and make her mom proud. Cath wants nothing to do with such a plan,…
Oct 17, 2021Julia_White rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This book is a masterpiece! It provides such a captivating and heartbreaking new perspective of the Queen of Hearts. Definitely a new favorite.
Oct 02, 2021violet_horse_3108 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
OK this is legit the best book ever! I loved the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, but M.M takes this book to a whole knew level. The book left my heart broken, not just in two pieces but a billion. If you like adventure, romance and dark…
Sep 29, 2021pacl_teens rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
"Heartless, by Marissa Meyer, (who you might know from the Lunar Chronicles), is fun to read and has a very well written story. The backstory of the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, the story tells what happened to the Queen, or…
Aug 28, 2021jjichyuchyu rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Heartless is an epic retelling of Alice in Wonderland, with the focus being on The Queen of Hearts that tells the story of how she turned out the way that we all know today. Looking at the blurb, it's hard to imagine Catherine, (she who is…
Aug 15, 2021JudithAguji rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This novel... ugh! I loved it! Made me cry at the end!
Aug 05, 2021KarnBookworms rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This book is by Marissa Meyer who wrote the Lunar Chronicles, and this fits into her style of retelling fairytales. It's about a girl named Catherine whose parents want her to marry the King of Hearts but all she wants to do is open a…
Jul 26, 2021Delta_07 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Before the infamous Queen of Hearts terrorized Wonderland, she was just a teenage girl. Catherine, heir to Rockturtle Cove, wants nothing more than to open a bakery with her best friend, but as a young woman who has caught the eye of the…
Jun 28, 2021NiaVerma rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Heartless acts as a prequel to the famous Alice in Wonderland and describes how the evil Queen of Hearts actually became so evil. Her name is Cath and what she wants most in the world is to open a bakery with her best friend. The king…
Jun 16, 2021
Retelling of Alice in Wonderland.
May 08, 2021violet_alligator_944 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
The ending is honestly what made the book for me. Before the last few chapters, I felt like the plot lacked something and the romance wasn't exactly hitting the mark. However at the end with the plot twist and character development it took…
May 03, 2021onamika rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Heartless is yet another great fantasy book by Marissa Meyer. It was written as a prequel to Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, showing how the Queen of Hearts came to be. This book is an intricately written story filled with love,…