Cheshire by Samantha Lovelock {a review}

Cheshire by Samantha Lovelock is officially available! This is the first book in her new Wonderland Novellas series, that is based loosely on Alice in Wonderland, and it is spectacular! If you enjoy new adult enemies to lovers romances that are in a college setting, then go read this book. It is dark, it is filled with secrets, angst, mystery, steam, and a little dubcon.

Now first things first...Right off the bat, Samantha Lovelock tells you that this book will end in a cliffhanger. So keep that in mind as you read. You'll definitely have questions, but they won't all be answered within Cheshire. Oh, also, book 2 isn't coming until sometime in the spring.

In Cheshire we meet Ali when she and her mother are living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It has been years since her dad died, and now her mom has just dropped a bombshell: they are moving to Washington state, selling the home they live in, and her mom is getting married. This also means that Ali is transferring schools. She will now be attending St Philips College, and will be living in the dorms. It is in the dorms where Ali first meets her roommate Finn, as well as Benny (she lives down the hall). As Ali is walking around campus with Finn, she feels as though she is being watched. Yet when she looks, no one is there. From this point on, a lot of things start to happen: from meeting the Reavers, to an encounter at The Underground, to discovering a tidbit about her past, to someone leaving a candy conversation heart at her doorstep. It all has you wondering what will happen next, as well as who is behind some of the happenings. Then there is the question regarding Finn's previous roommate Simone. What happened to her? Where did she go? Someone knows, but everyone is quiet.

Major characters in Cheshire:

• Alianna (Ali)
• Cordelia (Delia/Mom)
• Charles
• Rickman Absalom
• Gryffinn Sloan (Finn)
• Benedictina Souris (Benny)
• Axel and Deacon Rossetti (twins)
• Vauxhall Telford Cheshire III (Vox)
  
• Tal Hamilton & Christian Buck were also mentioned, but they did not have much if any part of this initial story.

Now, I didn't know that I needed a story based on Alice in Wonderland, but apparently I did! And oh how wonderful Cheshire was! Oh who am I kidding, if Samantha Lovelock writes it, I'm reading it. I'm hooked on her stories, and I don't see that changing. (see: Folkestone Sins) Back to Cheshire though... From the start of this book where Ali finds out she's transferring schools, to the move to Washington, to meeting her new roommate, the discovery Ali made, to everything that unfolds during and after her trip to The Underground, to the scene at the cabin in the woods, I was HOOKED!  

Side note: I am perplexed as to why a parent was able to transfer their young adult from one college to another without their knowledge and/or consent. What? That just baffles my mind. BUT, after things start to unfold at St Philips, I am beginning to see the reasoning behind it all. There's more to the story that is slowly being revealed. 

Oh, and Benny has my curiosity piqued. She lives in the same building as Ali, and is a nosey little thing. Also, you don't know she's around. She's quiet, and blends in so you don't notice her. Benny is always watching and listening. I wonder what her game is, other than trying to get with Vox. But what's her MO regarding Ali?

I am left wanting more! My mind is spinning about what is going to happen with Ali, Finn, Vox, Alex, and Deacon. Also, what happened to/with Simone? Where is she? What happened to her? What else will we learn about the Reavers?

Is it Spring 2022 yet so I can have the next installment of the Wonderland Novellas? If you need me I'll be hanging out in The Lovelocker group on Facebook waiting for any tidbits that Samantha Lovelock provides. What can I say? Other than I'm greedy and want to be in the know!

Thank you for taking time to read my thoughts. If you are an Alice in Wonderland fan, a fairy tale retelling fan, or just love new adult romances, then PLEASE go read Cheshire. 

Laura

Cover Design: Honey & Sin Designs

"Follow me," he invites, "into the deepest, darkest parts. Where there are no limits, and all the best girls turn bad."

When her father is killed and her mother marries a man she barely knows, Ali’s precisely planned future falls apart. Until now, her careful life has always stayed within the lines.

Thrust into a world without boundaries, her reality blurs further when she finds herself craving the attention of the one person she hates the most—the man who’s sworn to destroy her.

Torn between light and dark, how long can Ali play his dangerous game, knowing full well there aren’t any rules?

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Meet Samantha Lovelock

Samantha Lovelock is a sarcastic individual with a decent sense of humour, darknesses hidden in mind-closets that occasionally Jack-in-The-Box her unsuspecting ass, and a love and loyalty for her friends and family that runs deeper than any ocean. Her guy means the world to her, and so does her cat; sometimes even in that order. Her Mum is her hero, hands down. She proudly wears the crown of a Queen of Innuendo, and of Name That Tune, and has never met a cliffhanger she didn’t like. She lives in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies with her British cowboy and their Norwegian Forest Cat, Winston Churchill.

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Thank you to Samantha Lovelock for providing me with an advanced copy of Cheshire.