This is a story of Wonderland before it became the broken thing that Alice encounters in the book. Residents are more or less happy and good natured. They don’t stay that way, however. Wonderland is a world of cards, and there are many fun and innocent games you can play with cards. But there’s another land through the Looking Glass, the land of Chess. And Chess is a battlefield. Some things from Chess have come to Wonderland, and they will never be the same. […]
Every time I read the title of this book, I read it to the tune of “Helpless” from Hamilton
Heartless by Marissa Meyer