The Book of Lost Things, John Connolly
Mar. 23rd, 2007 05:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookfrogDavid's mother dies, and then his father remarries. David feels betrayed by the marriage, and he resents his stepmother and new little brother. They don't get along very well.
David has begun to hear books talking to him, and sometimes he has fits where he blacks out. His dreams become stranger and stranger. And then one day, he hears his mother's voice calling to him from another world--and crosses into that world just as a German bomber crashes nearly on top of him.
This new place is somehow made up of fairy tales, and it's very violent and dangerous. David finds himself with no way home and only the vaguest idea that he must find his mother.
This novel is filled with the dark side of fairy tales and the pain of loss and acceptance. Some of the dialogue is kind of stilted, but I think that was to keep a fairy tale flavor to the whole thing.
Hell of a good read.
David has begun to hear books talking to him, and sometimes he has fits where he blacks out. His dreams become stranger and stranger. And then one day, he hears his mother's voice calling to him from another world--and crosses into that world just as a German bomber crashes nearly on top of him.
This new place is somehow made up of fairy tales, and it's very violent and dangerous. David finds himself with no way home and only the vaguest idea that he must find his mother.
This novel is filled with the dark side of fairy tales and the pain of loss and acceptance. Some of the dialogue is kind of stilted, but I think that was to keep a fairy tale flavor to the whole thing.
Hell of a good read.
