OFF WITH THEIR HEADS BY ZOE HANA MIKUTA MINI REVIEW: BOOKSTAGRAM CREATIVE TOUR

Hello Book Dragons!

We are off to a new week and the Monday Blues might just be hitting in already 😭. Tell me, how do you get over Monday Blues?

As you all know, every year in May we celebrate AAPI Heritage Month to recognize and honour the contributions from Asian Americans, Pacific Islander Americans and Native Hawaiians. I read Zoe Hana Mikuta’s Off with Their Heads and wanted to share all about this book with you lovely book nerds. 💜

Fans of Chloe Gong and Judy I. Lin will devour this Korean-inspired Alice in Wonderland retelling about two very wicked girls, forever bonded by blood and betrayal . . .

In a world where Saints are monsters and Wonderland is the dark forest where they lurk, it’s been five years since young witches and lovers Caro Rabbit and Iccadora Alice Sickle were both sentenced to that forest for a crime they didn’t commit—and four years since they shattered one another’s hearts, each willing to sacrifice the other for a chance at freedom.

Now, Caro is a successful royal Saint-harvester, living the high life in the glittering capital and pretending not to know of the twisted monster experiments that her beloved Red Queen hides deep in the bowels of the palace. But for Icca, the memory of Caro’s betrayal has hardened her from timid girl to ruthless hunter. A hunter who will stop at nothing to exact her On Caro. On the queen. On the throne itself.

But there’s a secret about the Saints the Queen’s been guarding, and a volatile magic at play even more dangerous to Icca and Caro than they are to each other…

Lush, terrifying, and uncanny, Zoe Hana Mikuta—author of Gearbreakers and Godslayers —takes a delicate knife straight through the heart of this beloved surrealist fairytale.

Do you like haunting, dark, creepy, magical books?

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I am all in for those vibes!! Better yet if it’s an Alice in Wonderland reimagining! And that is exactly what @zoehanamikuta offers in this lush, terrifying, and uncanny tale of two horrible girls in love who had betrayed each other for a taste of freedom.

Both imprisoned in the dark forest for a crime they didn’t commit, they were ready to do anything to get away from the horror that destroyed a major phase in their lives.

In this Wonderland, Saints are monsters and the dark forest is even more mysterious and sinister than ever that holds the secret to a lot of crime.

Now five years later, Caro is living a fancy life of comfort as a Saint-harverster, while Icca has now become a Hunter, dangerous than her previous timid self set on destroying everyone who once destroyed her life, and she might just exact her revenge on Caro to begin with 🗡️💔🖤

If you enjoy reading dark, creepy, atmospheric books with a lot of magic, mayhem, mystery, a sprinkle of splendor and love the lovers to enemies to (potential) lovers again trope, then Off With Their Heads should be on your shelves right about now! 🙌🏼

Huge thanks to @prhinternational & @mtmctours for sending me a copy of Off With Their Heads by @zoehanamikuta! 💜 Out now from @disneybooks!

Get your copy of Zoe Hana Mikuta’s beautiful atmospheric novel, Off With Their Heads here.

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Sohinee aka bookarlo