The Book of Lost Things is sort of a blend of many fairy tales and mythical creatures. David seemingly stumbles into a Grimm fairy-tale book where all the fairy tales don’t necessarily end happy, and are twisted into morbid versions of the ones we’re told as children. It was an incredibly creative and imaginative book while still drawing from elements within various fairy tales and stories.
I really enjoyed this and it was very easy to get lost into (no pun intended). David is twelve, but as the book goes on you notice gradual and significant changes in him that show he is maturing and growing into a man. He’s had some hard things happen in his life. Most prominently his mother recently passed away, his father is expanding his family again with a new wife and child, and there is a war going on in England. So it’s not easy to be David right now, but he’s also not handling a lot of things very well.
So his trip into this fairy tale land not only is frightening and adventurous, but it also manages to teach him important life lessons along the way and by the end he has become a completely different person.
The story was very fun and enjoyable, but where it fell a bit short was the ending. It was…I suppose you could say realistic. But without giving away too much it doesn’t end sad but it also doesn’t have a fairy tale ending. So I’m not sure if I liked it or not. But either way, the getting there was fun, so I’m glad I picked this up and I’ll definitely be checking out more books by John Connolly in the future.
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