The Book of Lost Things

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User Review - CarrieWuj - LibraryThing

A fairy tale for adults along the lines of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. Definitely some Grimm influence here - you'll recognize shades of the tales - and echoes of Narnia. David is a young boy when his ... Read full review

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User Review - elam11 - LibraryThing

4.5. Awesome, but minus half a star because David seemed to lack genre savvy for someone wrapped in books and fairy tales. (Probably one could infer a relationship between childish impetuousness and ... Read full review

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User Review - courtneygiraldo - LibraryThing

If Neil Gaiman wrote a dark version of Narnia with a dash of The Wizard of Oz- this would be it. Twelve year old David is still mourning the loss of this mother, and adjusting (not so well really) to ... Read full review

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User Review - Arkrayder - LibraryThing

This is a dark book. It starts out as if it’s written for young adults. But this is misleading. The story is really an adult fairytale which has a child as it’s main character. The author draws on the ... Read full review

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User Review - quondame - LibraryThing

The power of stories to inform and shape is the theme in this cross between Labyrinth and Once Upon a Time with minimal women with agency. My main gripe is that, perhaps because of the main character ... Read full review

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User Review - lydia1879 - LibraryThing

It's been years since I've read this novel but I actually really, really liked it. I think it's part of a trilogy now - so it would be really cool to check out the rest of the books. It's a story ... Read full review

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User Review - MickyFine - LibraryThing

David has always loved stories and even during his mother's long illness, stories were the thing that made life tolerable. But now David's mother has died, he and his father have moved out of London ... Read full review

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User Review - lkernagh - LibraryThing

If you like your fairy tales retellings to have a twisted, dark undertone of malevolence and violence, this story should appeal to you. I tend to lean towards the lighter, more comic takes on the ... Read full review