I really enjoyed the first book as it was full of very good ideas and I'm a huge Alice in Wonderland fan. This sequel however is very disappointing. It does nothing to fill out the characters at all and they even become more two dimensional than the first book, especially Alyce. Imaginative ideas from the first book are replaced with endless battles and I found myself very bored of it. There are some good bits, such as the painting bit (don't want to give too much away), so it's not all bad it just could have been so much more.