I listened to the audiobook edition of After Alice, so first, I'd like to touch on the narration. I have often found female narrators to have grating voices when speaking as young children, so I was pleasantly surprised that Katherine Kellgren's narration was beautifully done.

Concerning the content of the book - It was not what I was expecting. Based on what I know of Maguire's writing, I was expecting "After Alice" to be a story about the things that happened in Wonderland after Alice left. That wasn't the story that I got. (Perhaps I should learn to read the synopsis before I get an audiobook from my digital library.) It was however, a very interesting tale that enlightened the Victorian world that Alice grew up in. And I quite fell in love with Aida, the main character in the novel. Though I am unsatisfied with how the book left things with Siam, the young black boy. Perhaps a sequel?