There are also a lot of conversations in regards to people’s respective privilege, or lack thereof. Such as, what people think is “good” or “bad,” or that people are afraid of things that are not what they are used to. Primarily, it was the discussions on people’s perspectives on society and how its problems affect groups differently. Each played a role in helping Alice in different situations or helped her understand their counterpart. The other characters also bled between the two worlds. Both worlds mirror each other and Alice uses what she learns in each to help deal with problems in the other. Like Straight on Til Morning, the Peter Pan retelling, Liz Braswell brilliantly wove in social commentary on topics like war and immigration in between real world England and Wonderland. While the lengthy descriptions accompanied to it occasionally annoyed me, the narrator’s lilting British accent and whimsical narration style made it easier. She did the characters’ voices well and her tone matched the book. Of all the narrators, this one is my favorite so far. Like most of the other books in this series, I listened to Unbirthday on audiobook. Somehow, despite the differences between the two, the elements included in Unbirthday worked well together. The author incorporated different elements from both the Disney animated film and the novel by Lewis Carroll. The writing in Unbirthday has a little more whimsy, or nonsense, to it than previous installments as well as more elaborate world-building that worked for the Wonderland setting.
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