Unbirthday, Liz Braswell
Unbirthday, Liz Braswell
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Unbirthday
A Twisted Tale

Author: Liz Braswell

Series: A Twisted Tale #10

Narrator: Lorna Bennett

Unabridged: 12 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/15/2025


Synopsis

The 10th installment in the New York Times bestselling A TWISTED TALE series asks: What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late?

Alice is different than other eighteen-year-old ladies in Kexford, which is perfectly fine with her. She’d rather spend golden afternoons with her trusty camera or in her aunt Vivian’s lively salon, ignoring her sister’s wishes that she stop all that “nonsense” and become a “respectable” member of society. Alice is happy to meander to Miss Yao’s teashop or to visit the children playing in the Square. She’s also interested in learning more about the young lawyer she met there, but just because she’s curious, of course, not because he was sweet and charming.
But when Alice develops photographs she has recently taken about town, familiar faces of old suddenly appear in the place of her actual subjects—the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar. There’s something eerily off about them, even for Wonderland creatures. And as Alice develops a self-portrait, she finds the most disturbing image of all—a badly-injured dark-haired girl asking for Alice’s help. Mary Ann.

Returning to the place of nonsense from her childhood, Alice finds herself on a mission to stop the Queen of Hearts’ tyrannical rule and to find her place in both worlds. But will she able to do so . . . before the End of Time?

For more twisted adventures, try the other books in the A TWISTED TALE series:

A Whole New World by Liz BraswellOnce Upon a Dream by Liz BraswellAs Old as Time by Liz BraswellReflection by Elizabeth LimPart of Your World by Liz BraswellMirror, Mirror by Jen CalonitaConcel, Don't Feel by Jen CalonitaStraight On Till Morning by Liz BraswellSo This is Love by Elizabeth LimGo the Distance by Jen CalonitaWhat Once Was Mine by Liz Braswell

About The Author

Liz Braswell spent her childhood reading fairy tales, dreaming, and going on adventures in the woods with her cat. After majoring in Egyptology at Brown University (and yes, she can write your name in hieroglyphs) she promptly spent the next ten years producing video games. Finally Liz caved in to fate and wrote Snow and Rx under the name Tracy Lynn, followed by the Nine Lives of Chloe King series under her real name, because by then the assassins hunting her were all dead. She is also the author of Stuffed and several other Twisted Tales, including A Whole New World, Once Upon a Dream, As Old as Time, and Part of Your World. She lives in Brooklyn with a husband, two children, a cat, a part-time dog, three fish, and five coffee trees—one of which has already produced a rather tolerable espresso. You can email her at me@lizbraswell.com or tweet @LizBraswell or instagram @lizbraswell.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Carrie on October 14, 2020

One would think that at my age I would have had enough of fairy tales or classics such as Alice in Wonderland but each time I see a new book tackling an old tale like this I get all excited inside. Unbirthday by Liz Braswell is a new take on the Alice in Wonderland saga in which Alice is now *gasp*......more

Goodreads review by Amy on November 16, 2022

A really fun read! This is tailored for Alice in Wonderland fans looking for a fresh twist. But to be honest... kind of long. Adding/adapting the original story: ★★★★ Pacing: ★★ 1/2 Plot: ★★★★ Characters: ★★★ 1/2 Unbirthday is another installment in Disney's "Twisted Tales" series, but they're all standa......more

Goodreads review by Dannii on May 15, 2021

This is the tenth instalment in the Twisted Tales series, but as each focuses on a different fairy tale they can be read on their own or out of order. I had previously read the first three and this one was by far my favourite. Alice has spent eleven long years looking for a way to return to Wonderlan......more

Goodreads review by Whitney on August 24, 2020

**Thank you to Netgalley and Disney Hyperion for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. This in no way affected my rating** As many of you know, I am a HUGE Disney fan. So it's probably a surprise to find out that this is the first of the Twisted Tales I've read. I love Alice, as well, so I was gl......more

Goodreads review by Silvia on October 05, 2020

Book Status: Disappointing Aww mannnnn! I was so excited to read a book in the Twisted Tales series. I love fairytale re-tellings (I was obsessed with the Lunar Chronicles). But unfortunately this book just didn't do it for me. It was so damn slow to start and didn't pick up speed at any point. It was......more