Alice I Have Been

I had high hopes for this book starting out - mostly due to the positive reviews I read. Instead I was very disappointed. While I was aware of the speculation/accepted views that Dodgson was a pedophile, I was not prepared for that to be what the author used to propel her entire story. I really didn't like how the voice she gave Alice. She wasn't just a sweet, mischievous 7 yr old who had a very large crush on an adult in her life but that she was lusting after him at age 7 and age 11. And then she was a 20 something and then an 80 something woman who had done her best to block out that 7 yr old.

I was confused as to who the narrator was. Was is 80 yr old Alice remembering what happened all those years ago? Or was it Alice as she was at whatever age she was supposed to be during each period of time in her life? 7 yr old Alice sounded exactly like 11 yr old Alice who sounded exactly like 80 year old Alice. Yet most of that didn't read like 80 yr old Alice remembering things.

The two parts that shined (and redeemed this book to 2 stars for me) were the sections with Leo and with Regi. Though I do wish the author had given us a little more background on Regi and Alice's relationship with him.