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The book was later adapted into a student-led musical in Utah. With the support of Marissa Meyer and the online community, the show was able to premiere at the Centerpoint Legacy Theater in April 2022. The soundtrack has been uploaded onto [[https://open.spotify.com/album/42hu9ngtxHwnax6h8KtQJF?si=eTs6mo3vQI6O6TGiLxDsxQ&nd=1&dlsi=2b3ac39d2f7f4959 Spotify]] and the show has a few recordings uploaded onto its own [[https://www.youtube.com/@HeartlessTheMusical/videos YouTube channel]].
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%% * TastesLikeDiabetes: InUniverse. The love poems that the King sends to Cath while courting her. She can always tell when Jest helped write one because those poems actually ''do'' touch her heart.
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** Jest has no apparently ''Alice in Wonderland'' or 'Through the Looking-Glass'' counterpart. [[spoiler:Though he is a Rook from Chess for the White Queen, the book makes it sound like the chess pieces are easily replaced if one dies, considering how easily Catherine could have been made a queen in Chess.]] So, unsurprisingly [[spoiler:he ends up dying within the last third of the novel]] which sets Catherine on her path to becoming the Queen of Hearts.
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** Jest has no apparently ''Alice in Wonderland'' or 'Through ''Through the Looking-Glass'' counterpart. [[spoiler:Though he is a Rook from Chess for the White Queen, the book makes it sound like the chess pieces are easily replaced if one dies, considering how easily Catherine could have been made a queen in Chess.]] So, unsurprisingly [[spoiler:he ends up dying within the last third of the novel]] which sets Catherine on her path to becoming the Queen of Hearts.
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** Lady Peter is either this or CanonCharacterAllAlong given that [[spoiler:she's the Jabberwok]].
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lady Peter is introduced as sickly, weak, and pitifully meek, while her husband is introduced as rather controlling of her and is later shown to have a dangerous HairTriggerTemper. Were it not later revealed that [[spoiler:Lady Peter ''is'' the Jabberwok]] this could be a very clear case of DomesticAbuse.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lady Peter is introduced as sickly, weak, and pitifully meek, while her husband is introduced as rather controlling of her and is later shown to have a dangerous HairTriggerTemper. Were it not later revealed that [[spoiler:Lady Peter ''is'' the Jabberwok]] this could be a very clear case of DomesticAbuse.
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* HairTriggerTemper: Sir Peter is shown to be ''very scary'' when angered, to the point where he outright grabbed Catherine in the middle of a masquerade ball. He's fully willing to [[spoiler:feed innocent people to the Jabberwok when Lady Peter is apparently stuck in that form]] and was fulling willing to kill Catherine after she [[spoiler:killed the Jabberwok]].
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* HairTriggerTemper: Sir Peter is shown to be ''very scary'' when angered, to the point where he outright grabbed Catherine in the middle of a masquerade ball. He's fully willing to [[spoiler:feed innocent people to the Jabberwok when Lady Peter is apparently stuck in that form]] and was fulling willing to kill Catherine after she [[spoiler:killed the Jabberwok]].Jabberwock]].
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* OffWithHisHead: Fitting given it's an origin story for the Queen of Hearts. Three notable examples include the Jabberwok[[spoiler:/Lady Peter]], [[spoiler:Jest at the hands of Sir Peter]], then Sir Peter himself. The novel even closes with this line.
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* OffWithHisHead: Fitting given it's an origin story for the Queen of Hearts. Three notable examples include the Jabberwok[[spoiler:/Lady Jabberwock[[spoiler:/Lady Peter]], [[spoiler:Jest at the hands of Sir Peter]], then Sir Peter himself. The novel even closes with this line.
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* SurroundedByIdiots: Cath has some shades of as the novel continues and it becomes increasingly obvious that very few are taking the Jabberwok seriously. It isn't until after [[spoiler:Jest's death]] and Cath becomes a bitter and jaded individual that she fully believes this.
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* SurroundedByIdiots: Cath has some shades of as the novel continues and it becomes increasingly obvious that very few are taking the Jabberwok Jabberwock seriously. It isn't until after [[spoiler:Jest's death]] and Cath becomes a bitter and jaded individual that she fully believes this.she's surrounded by idiots.
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* AbusiveParent: Cath's mother is controlling of what she wears and eats, forces Cath into a marriage she's been rejecting since the beginning, dismisses Cath's love of baking, ''unless'' it's to help gain the [[ThroughHisStomach King's attention]]. There's even one point where she calls Cath stupid to her face.
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* AbusiveParent: Cath's mother is controlling of what she wears and eats, forces Cath into a marriage she's been rejecting since the beginning, dismisses Cath's love of baking, ''unless'' it's to help gain the [[ThroughHisStomach King's attention]]. There's even one point where she calls Cath stupid to her face. Her father's "better" in that he mostly leaves everything up to his wife and only starts showing a less than charitable side to him when Cath begins acting out of line.
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* DoomedByCanon: Jest has no apparently ''Alice in Wonderland'' or ''Alice Through the Looking-Glass'' counterpart. [[spoiler:Though he is a Rook from Chess for the White Queen, the book makes it sound like the chess pieces are easily replaced if one dies, considering how easily Catherine could have been made a queen in Chess.]] So, unsurprisingly [[spoiler: he ends up dying within the last third of the novel]] which sets Catherine on her path to becoming the Queen of Hearts.
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** Jest has no apparently ''Alice in Wonderland'' or''Alice Through 'Through the Looking-Glass'' counterpart. [[spoiler:Though he is a Rook from Chess for the White Queen, the book makes it sound like the chess pieces are easily replaced if one dies, considering how easily Catherine could have been made a queen in Chess.]] So, unsurprisingly [[spoiler: he [[spoiler:he ends up dying within the last third of the novel]] which sets Catherine on her path to becoming the Queen of Hearts.
** Likewise Sir Peter doesn't seem to be based on any character from Caroll's works. Instead, he's influenced by the ''Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater'' rhyme. [[spoiler:Due to killing Jest, Sir Peter is the first person Catherine [[OffWithHisHead calls for his head]] after becoming the Queen of Hearts.]]
** Lady Peter is either this or CanonCharacterAllAlong given that [[spoiler:she's the Jabberwok]].
** Jest has no apparently ''Alice in Wonderland'' or
** Likewise Sir Peter doesn't seem to be based on any character from Caroll's works. Instead, he's influenced by the ''Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater'' rhyme. [[spoiler:Due to killing Jest, Sir Peter is the first person Catherine [[OffWithHisHead calls for his head]] after becoming the Queen of Hearts.]]
** Lady Peter is either this or CanonCharacterAllAlong given that [[spoiler:she's the Jabberwok]].
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** Sir Peter received his title after his wife won a pumpkin eating contest. She's supposedly so sickly looking due to eating bad pumpkin.
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** Sir Peter received his title after his wife won a pumpkin eating contest. She's supposedly so sickly looking due to eating bad pumpkin. What's more she has an unnatural craving for pumpkins.
** When the Jabberwok first appeared Cheshire's fur had turned orange from eating pumpkin pasties. It's later suspected he may have smelled of pumpkins.
** When the Jabberwok first appeared Cheshire's fur had turned orange from eating pumpkin pasties. It's later suspected he may have smelled of pumpkins.
** The Three Sister's drawings advertise how the book ends.
* JadeColoredGlasses: Catherine steadily becomes more jaded as the novel continues when her dreams of her own bakery are thwarted at every turn, [[OnlySaneMan no one but her]] seems concerned about the Jabberwok, only for this trope to completely overtake her as the result of [[spoiler:Jest's death]].
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* OffWithHisHead: How [[spoiler:Jest]] is killed. After going through her SanitySlippage Catherine gets revenge on his killer in this very fashion, closing the novel with the Queen of Hearts signature line.
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* OffWithHisHead: How [[spoiler:Jest]] is killed. After going through her SanitySlippage Catherine gets revenge on his killer in this very fashion, closing the novel with Fitting given it's an origin story for the Queen of Hearts signature Hearts. Three notable examples include the Jabberwok[[spoiler:/Lady Peter]], [[spoiler:Jest at the hands of Sir Peter]], then Sir Peter himself. The novel even closes with this line.
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* BecauseDestinySaysSo: Shades of this through the novel. Time knew of a queen in Hearts with a heart passionate enough to help end the war in Chess [[spoiler:but ended up sending Jest, Raven, and Hatta to Hearts ''before'' Catherine became the Queen of Hearts]]. And there's an implication that Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie influenced Catherine's dream of meeting Jest, pushing the two together and setting them on their path of [[spoiler:Jest's death via beheading]] and for Catherine to become the Queen of Hearts.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Lady Peter is introduced as sickly, weak, and pitifully meek, while her husband is introduced as rather controlling of her and is later shown to have a dangerous HairTriggerTemper. Were it not later revealed that [[spoiler:Lady Peter ''is'' the Jabberwok]] this could be a very clear case of DomesticAbuse.
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* HairTriggerTemper: Sir Peter is shown to be ''very scary'' when angered, to the point where he outright grabbed Catherine in the middle of a masquerade ball. He's fully willing to [[spoiler:feed innocent people to the Jabberwok when Lady Peter is apparently stuck in that form]] and was fulling willing to kill Catherine after she [[spoiler:killed the Jabberwok]].
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* AbusiveParent: Cath's mother is controlling of what she's wears and eats, forces Cath into a marriage she's been rejecting since the beginning, dismisses Cath's love of baking, ''unless'' it's to help gain the [[ThroughHisStomach King's attention]]. There's even one point where where she calls Cath stupid to her face.
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* AbusiveParent: Cath's mother is controlling of what she's she wears and eats, forces Cath into a marriage she's been rejecting since the beginning, dismisses Cath's love of baking, ''unless'' it's to help gain the [[ThroughHisStomach King's attention]]. There's even one point where where she calls Cath stupid to her face.
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** Hatta always had the madness that plauged his family over his head and tried to outrun Time in an attempt to avoid it. But [[spoiler:[[AllLoveIsUnrequited Jest's]] brutal death and the indirect hand Hatta played in it]] has him borderline ''welcoming'' madness.
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** Hatta always had the madness that plauged plagued his family over his head and tried to outrun Time in an attempt to avoid it. But [[spoiler:[[AllLoveIsUnrequited Jest's]] brutal death and the indirect hand Hatta played in it]] has him borderline ''welcoming'' madness.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Cath's parents spend the entire book denying her what she truly wants, insist that she must marry the King, and forbid her from starting her dream bakery. Towards the very end, after Cath has clearly gone into SanitySlippage and is about to become the Queen of Hearts, her alarmed mother tells her that all they've ever wanted is for her to be happy, and asks if this wedding will truly make her happy. Cath bitterly points out that things could have turned out a lot differently if they'd just asked her that question from the beginning.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Cath's parents spend the entire book denying her what she truly wants, insist insists that she must marry the King, and forbid her from starting her dream bakery. Towards the very end, after Cath has clearly gone into SanitySlippage and is about to become the Queen of Hearts, her alarmed mother tells her that all they've ever wanted is for her to be happy, and asks if this wedding will truly make her happy. Cath bitterly points out that things could have turned out a lot differently if they'd just asked her that question from the beginning.
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* MarriageOfConvenience: Catherine's marriage to the King of Hearts ultimately boils down to this. She barely cares for him as a person and has been trying to get out his good graces since the the very beginning. [[spoiler:She only marries him to give the Three Sisters the heart of a queen and get revenge on Sir Peter.]]
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* MarriageOfConvenience: Catherine's marriage to the King of Hearts ultimately boils down to this. She barely cares for him as a person and has been trying to get out of his good graces since the the very beginning. [[spoiler:She only marries him to give the Three Sisters the heart of a queen and get revenge on Sir Peter.]]
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* SurroundedByIdiots: Cath has some shades of as the novel continues and it becomes increasingly obvious that very few are taking the Jabberwok seriously. It isn't until after [[spoiler:Jest's death]] and Cath becomes a bitter and jaded individual that she fully believes this.
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''Heartless'', written by Marissa Meyer, is a YA novel that serves as an origin story for [[Literature/AliceInWonderland the Queen of Hearts]]. Catherine Pinkerton, daughter of the Marquess of Rock Turtle Cove, dreams of leaving behind her privileged life to start a bakery. Her sweets are well-known throughout the Kingdom of Hearts, even attracting the interest of the King.
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''Heartless'', written by Marissa Meyer, Creator/MarissaMeyer, is a YA novel that serves as an origin story for [[Literature/AliceInWonderland the Queen of Hearts]]. Catherine Pinkerton, daughter of the Marquess of Rock Turtle Cove, dreams of leaving behind her privileged life to start a bakery. Her sweets are well-known throughout the Kingdom of Hearts, even attracting the interest of the King.
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* BodyHorror: The victims of those who eat the pumpkin's from Peter Peter's patch. The Turtle's transformation into the Mock Turtle is described in uncomfortable detail as he's screaming and flailing on his back in pain. [[spoiler:And then there's Sir Peter's wife transforming into the Jabberwock.]]
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* BodyHorror: The victims of those who eat the pumpkin's pumpkins from Peter Peter's patch. The Turtle's transformation into the Mock Turtle is described in uncomfortable detail as he's screaming and flailing on his back in pain. [[spoiler:And then there's Sir Peter's wife transforming into the Jabberwock.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: It may be easier to list the character's who ''haven't'' been broken by the end of the book.
** The Turtle start's out as a sweet, enthusiastic turtle. But his transformation into the Mock Turtle (with heavy emphasis on being a ''soup ingredient'') has left him a melancholic shell of his former self.
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* BreakTheCutie: It may be easier to list the character's characters who ''haven't'' been broken by the end of the book.
** The Turtlestart's starts out as a sweet, enthusiastic turtle. But his transformation into the Mock Turtle (with heavy emphasis on being a ''soup ingredient'') has left him a melancholic shell of his former self.
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** Cath simply wanted to open a bakery, be renowned as the best baker in Hearts, and fall in love if it happened. [[spoiler:Jest's death]] left her so broken she willingly gave the Three Sister's her heart to be rid of it and the heartache that comes with having one.
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** Cath simply wanted to open a bakery, be renowned as the best baker in Hearts, and fall in love if it happened. [[spoiler:Jest's death]] left her so broken she willingly gave the Three Sister's Sisters her heart to be rid of it and the heartache that comes with having one.
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* MarriageOfConvenience: Catherine's marriage to the King of Hearts ultimately boils down to this. She barely cares for him as a person and has been trying to get out his good graces since the the very beginning. [[spoiler:She only marries him to give the Three Sister's the heart of a queen and get revenge on Sir Peter.]]
* MayDecemberRomance: While his age is never outright stated, it's implied the King of Heart's at least twenty years older than Catherine.
* NeverMyFault: Downplayed. Catherine does notice that the Turtle was the only one who ate her spice pumpkin cake ''just'' before his transformation into the Mock Turtle. A few days later she notices Hatta has the Turtle's bowler hat he made him and start's accusing Hatta's hats of being dangerous. Hatta quickly shuts this down by pointing out that ''he'' also noticed that the Mock Turtle was the only one who ate Cath's cake and so have others. Because Cath is fated to become the Queen of Hearts it's difficult to tell if this is her future persona bubbling to the surface and she's trying to shift the blame onto someone else or if Cath's just in denial and eager to find another explanation.
* OffWithHisHead: How [[spoiler:Jest]] is killed. After going through her SanitySlippage Catherine get's revenge on his killer in this very fashion, closing the novel with the Queen of Hearts signature line.
* MayDecemberRomance: While his age is never outright stated, it's implied the King of Heart's at least twenty years older than Catherine.
* NeverMyFault: Downplayed. Catherine does notice that the Turtle was the only one who ate her spice pumpkin cake ''just'' before his transformation into the Mock Turtle. A few days later she notices Hatta has the Turtle's bowler hat he made him and start's accusing Hatta's hats of being dangerous. Hatta quickly shuts this down by pointing out that ''he'' also noticed that the Mock Turtle was the only one who ate Cath's cake and so have others. Because Cath is fated to become the Queen of Hearts it's difficult to tell if this is her future persona bubbling to the surface and she's trying to shift the blame onto someone else or if Cath's just in denial and eager to find another explanation.
* OffWithHisHead: How [[spoiler:Jest]] is killed. After going through her SanitySlippage Catherine get's revenge on his killer in this very fashion, closing the novel with the Queen of Hearts signature line.
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* MarriageOfConvenience: Catherine's marriage to the King of Hearts ultimately boils down to this. She barely cares for him as a person and has been trying to get out his good graces since the the very beginning. [[spoiler:She only marries him to give the Three Sister's Sisters the heart of a queen and get revenge on Sir Peter.]]
* MayDecemberRomance: While his age is never outright stated, it's implied the King ofHeart's Hearts is at least twenty years older than Catherine.
* NeverMyFault: Downplayed. Catherine does notice that the Turtle was the only one who ate her spice pumpkin cake ''just'' before his transformation into the Mock Turtle. A few days later she notices Hatta has the Turtle's bowler hat he made him andstart's starts accusing Hatta's hats of being dangerous. Hatta quickly shuts this down by pointing out that ''he'' also noticed that the Mock Turtle was the only one who ate Cath's cake and so have others. Because Cath is fated to become the Queen of Hearts it's difficult to tell if this is her future persona bubbling to the surface and she's trying to shift the blame onto someone else or if Cath's just in denial and eager to find another explanation.
* OffWithHisHead: How [[spoiler:Jest]] is killed. After going through her SanitySlippage Catherineget's gets revenge on his killer in this very fashion, closing the novel with the Queen of Hearts signature line.
* MayDecemberRomance: While his age is never outright stated, it's implied the King of
* NeverMyFault: Downplayed. Catherine does notice that the Turtle was the only one who ate her spice pumpkin cake ''just'' before his transformation into the Mock Turtle. A few days later she notices Hatta has the Turtle's bowler hat he made him and
* OffWithHisHead: How [[spoiler:Jest]] is killed. After going through her SanitySlippage Catherine
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* NeverMyFault: Downplayed. Catherine does notice that the Turtle was the only one who ate her spice pumpkin cake ''just'' before his transformation into the Mock Turtle. A few days later she notices Hatta has the Turtle's bowler hat he made him and start's accusing Hatta's hats of being dangerous. Hatta quickly shuts this down by pointing out that ''he'' also noticed that the Mock Turtle was the only one who ate Cath's cake and so have others. Because Cath is fated to become the Queen of Hearts it's difficult to tell if this is her future persona bubbling to the surface and she's trying to shift the blame onto someone else or if Cath's just in denial and eager to find another explanation.
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* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: It's an origin story for the Queen of Hearts, so the reader gets to see Cath go from a [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]] to the tyrannical Queen of Hearts. Catherine does show several hints of the person she will become by the story's end.
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* AbusiveParent: Cath's mother is controling of what she's wears and eats, forces Cath into a marriage she's been rejecting since the beginning, dismisses Cath's love of baking, ''unless'' it's to help gain the [[ThroughHisStomach King's attention]]. There's even one point where where she calls Cath stupid to her face.
* BodyHorror: The victims of those who eat the pumpkin's from Peter Peter's patch. The Turtle's transformation into the Mock Turtle is described in uncomfortable detail as he's screaming and flailing on his back in pain. [[spoiler:And then there's Lady Peter's wife transforming into the Jabberwock.]]
* BodyHorror: The victims of those who eat the pumpkin's from Peter Peter's patch. The Turtle's transformation into the Mock Turtle is described in uncomfortable detail as he's screaming and flailing on his back in pain. [[spoiler:And then there's Lady Peter's wife transforming into the Jabberwock.]]
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* AbusiveParent: Cath's mother is controling controlling of what she's wears and eats, forces Cath into a marriage she's been rejecting since the beginning, dismisses Cath's love of baking, ''unless'' it's to help gain the [[ThroughHisStomach King's attention]]. There's even one point where where she calls Cath stupid to her face.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Hatta is clearly [[GreenEyedMonster envious]] of Catherine's relationship with Jest. It's only after [[spoiler:Jest's death]] that he admits he loved him too.
* BodyHorror: The victims of those who eat the pumpkin's from Peter Peter's patch. The Turtle's transformation into the Mock Turtle is described in uncomfortable detail as he's screaming and flailing on his back in pain. [[spoiler:And then there'sLady Sir Peter's wife transforming into the Jabberwock.]]
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Hatta is clearly [[GreenEyedMonster envious]] of Catherine's relationship with Jest. It's only after [[spoiler:Jest's death]] that he admits he loved him too.
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** The pony from the Lion's hat was found Sir Peter's pumpkin patch.
** The Turtle was the only one who ate the cake Cath made with a stolen pumpkin from Sir Peter's patch.
** Sir Peter received his title after his wife won a pumpkin eating contest. She's supposedly so sickly looking due to eating bad pumpkin.
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* MarriageOfConvenience: Catherine's marriage to the King of Hearts ultimately boils down to this. She barely cares for him as a person and has been trying to get out his good graces since the the very beginning. [[spoiler:She only marries him to give the Three Sister's the heart of a queen and get revenge on Sir Peter.]]
* MayDecemberRomance: While his age is never outright stated, it's implied the King of Heart's at least twenty years older than Catherine.
* MayDecemberRomance: While his age is never outright stated, it's implied the King of Heart's at least twenty years older than Catherine.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Cath's parents spend the entire book denying her what she truly wants, insist that she must marry the King, and forbid her from starting her dream bakery. Towards the very end, after Cath has clearly gone into SanitySlippage and is about to become the Queen of Hearts, her alarmed mother tells her that all they've ever wanted is for her to be happy, and asks if this wedding will truly make her happy. Cath bitterly points out that things could have turned out a lot differently if they'd just asked her that question from the beginning..
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Cath's parents spend the entire book denying her what she truly wants, insist that she must marry the King, and forbid her from starting her dream bakery. Towards the very end, after Cath has clearly gone into SanitySlippage and is about to become the Queen of Hearts, her alarmed mother tells her that all they've ever wanted is for her to be happy, and asks if this wedding will truly make her happy. Cath bitterly points out that things could have turned out a lot differently if they'd just asked her that question from the beginning..beginning.
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* TheWeirdSisters: Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie serve as this. Their little songs ''"Murder, martyr, monarch, mad"'' and ''"Peter Peter pumpkin eater"'' end up revealing several key plot points in the latter half of the novel.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Cath's parents insist that all they want is for her to be happy, but they don't sincerely ask her if marrying the King will truly make her happy until the very end of the book. Cath bitterly points out that a lot of things could have been avoided if they'd just done that in the first place.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Cath's parents spend the entire book denying her what she truly wants, insist that she must marry the King, and forbid her from starting her dream bakery. Towards the very end, after Cath has clearly gone into SanitySlippage and is about to become the Queen of Hearts, her alarmed mother tells her that all they want they've ever wanted is for her to be happy, but they don't sincerely ask her and asks if marrying the King this wedding will truly make her happy until the very end of the book. happy. Cath bitterly points out that a lot of things could have been avoided turned out a lot differently if they'd just done asked her that in question from the first place.beginning..
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* BigEater: Cath ''would'' be this trope, but her mother usually prevents her from eating much of anything so that she can fit into tighter dresses.
* BreakTheCutie: Cath starts out as a sweet girl who just wants to open up a bakery. How she becomes the Queen of Hearts is the plot of the book.
* BreakTheCutie: Cath starts out as a sweet girl who just wants to open up a bakery. How she becomes the Queen of Hearts is the plot of the book.
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Her parents want her to marry the King of Hearts. Jest is most certainly not the King of Hearts. [[spoiler:Although it's later revealed that he is a Rook from the Kingdom of Chess, and in Chess, a rook is on the same level as a Marquess. It's still not enough to please her parents, however]].
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* TastesLikeDiabetes: InUniverse. The love poems that the King sends to Cath while courting her. She can always tell when Jest helped write one because those poems actually ''do'' touch her heart.
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* ChefOfIron: [[spoiler:Cath ends up slaying the Jabberwock, although it leads to tragic consequences]].
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* DoomedByCanon: This ''is'' an origin story for the Queen of Hearts, after all.
* OffWithHisHead: Would it be a Queen of Hearts story if this trope DIDN'T come up? [[spoiler: And it's nothing but tragic when it happens.]]
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Unfortunately for Cath, the King has also begun to express an interest in ''her.'' And her parents absolutely do not want her running off to open a bakery with her best friend when she could be the Queen of Hearts. When it looks like the King is about to propose to her at a royal ball, Cath flees into the gardens, where she meets his new court joker. A budding romance forms between Cath and Jest, and she must decide whether to pursue her passions or follow the life that her parents want for her. And to top it all off, there's a Jabberwock stalking the Kingdom...
The book draws from both ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' and ''Literature/ThroughTheLookingGlass'', as well as other literary references, i.e. Edgar Allen Poe. It is not, however, related in any way to [[Literature/TheLunarChronicles Meyer's other series of fairy-tale retellings]]. It is also notable for including characters that often don't make it into other Alice adaptations, such as the Duchess and the Mock Turtle.
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!! ''Heartless'' contains examples of:
* BigEater: Cath ''would'' be this trope, but her mother usually prevents her from eating much of anything so that she can fit into tighter dresses.
* BreakTheCutie: Cath starts out as a sweet girl who just wants to open up a bakery. How she becomes the Queen of Hearts is the plot of the book.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: Several, which may or may not be a Reveal depending on your familiarity with the source material: [[spoiler:Mary Ann is the same Mary Ann that serves as a maid to the White Rabbit, Margaret Mearle becomes the Duchess, and Raven becomes the Queen of Hearts' executioner]].
* ChefOfIron: [[spoiler:Cath ends up slaying the Jabberwock, although it leads to tragic consequences]].
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Cath's parents insist that all they want is for her to be happy, but they don't sincerely ask her if marrying the King will truly make her happy until the very end of the book. Cath bitterly points out that a lot of things could have been avoided if they'd just done that in the first place.
* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Her parents want her to marry the King of Hearts. Jest is most certainly not the King of Hearts. [[spoiler:Although it's later revealed that he is a Rook from the Kingdom of Chess, and in Chess, a rook is on the same level as a Marquess. It's still not enough to please her parents, however]].
* DoomedByCanon: This ''is'' an origin story for the Queen of Hearts, after all.
* OffWithHisHead: Would it be a Queen of Hearts story if this trope DIDN'T come up? [[spoiler: And it's nothing but tragic when it happens.]]
* {{Tagline}}: "Before she was the Queen of Hearts she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love".
* TastesLikeDiabetes: InUniverse. The love poems that the King sends to Cath while courting her. She can always tell when Jest helped write one because those poems actually ''do'' touch her heart.
* YellowEyesOfSneakiness: Averted; Jest has yellow eyes, but he is a good person. [[spoiler:Granted, he's not entirely forthcoming about his motives for coming to the Kingdom of Hearts, but he genuinely loves Cath]].
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