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When I read a summary of this book (young boy's only remaining parent remarries in a setting of war-torn Europe; parents have new child together; boy, feeling neglected, escapes first into his beloved fairy tales and then literally into another world) I couldn't figure out how it wasn't Pan's Labyrinth. But while conceptually the two sound identical, The Book of Lost Things really is its own story and won me over quickly. In this book, the boy becomes trapped in a world of fractured fairy tales,
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A fascinating retelling of several fairy tales, entwined within a larger, more intricate one. Endearing, and sweet to read. (Apologies: I finished this book while unable to sleep, so this review is going to be succinct and hopefully coherent enough....)
Started off good but then it totally fizzled.
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