4/5

Between the Lines

+ Interesting premise, cutesy but it definitely had me thinking.
+ Issues of abandonment, separation, anxiety and social demise.
+ The storybook characters vs. the "real life" characters - their personalities and the idea that there's more than meets the readers' eyes.
+++ Illustrations. This instantly gets a book brownie points. Every single one of them brings more to the story and enhances the experience rather than hinders or distracts. It's a book about a fairytale - what better way to really drive that home than include famed illustrations? We're even served a bit of variety. Besides full-paged, delicately drawn and coloured fairytale-esque pictures that are very rip-out-of-the-book-stick-it-on-your-wall tempting, we have silhouettes and tiny pictures strewn throughout. This is one of those books that need to be READ and not listened to via audiobook.
+ Perspectives. In essence, we are granted three: the girl, the guy and the storybook. It's a nice way to break up the action and for the most part the transitions felt seamless.
~ A happy ending. It's like the anti-fairytale ending, but it still is a happily ever after kind of ending.
- I felt like Oliver's character needed more oomph. All I know about him is that he's a storybook character that wants to get out. Maybe that's all there really is to him. I'm not sure how this could have been bettered, since all he's even known is that storybook. I guess what I wanted was something of a reason for US to fall in love with him. I understand why Delilah did, but why should WE care? Maybe it's just me.

Now I have to convert all this into a review. Break time! Haha. Final review tk.