the book of lost things by john connolly

The story itself is 348 pages long but it's 512 with this extra material. The author has got all of these fairytales and with the addition of a character and a story, he has weaved all these fairytales to make his own. There are popular characters as you have never seen them before, making the likeable unlikable.

This entire section is more than 100 pages long making the book look a whole lot bigger. Some of these Grimm stories were completely new to me but there is a huge bit at the end where the author talks about these fairytales which inspired him to write this book and actually includes the fairytale so you know how the actual story goes. Most of the fairytales are from the Grimm Brothers.

What makes this book so amazing for me is there are a lot of fairytales in here that are completely twisted to be told in a totally different way. When I sat down to read this book, I remembered a few bits but was totally amazed to realise I had forgotten half of what the story was only after five years since I had first read it. This was the second time I had read this book. A world with wolves pretending to be men, a world with a broken King leading it and a world where David's mother could be alive.Īfter meeting The Woodsman, David must find the king and hope that he will find his way home through The Book of Lost Things. As a German bomber plane starts to crash in his garden, David hides in the crack and immediately finds himself in a new world.

David spots what can only be described as The Crooked Man sitting at his bedroom window and a voice which is not unlike his mother's starts talking to him. Overcome with curiosity, he is drawn to where the voice seems to be coming from - a crack in the wall of their garden. David is determined to hate these newcomers as no one can replace his mother and he believes it's entirely wrong to move on with life so soon after his mother's death. Things don't help much when Rose appears. After capturing his father's attention, Rose soon becomes David's stepmother and has a baby boy of her own called Georgie. The books in his life are also starting to talk to him, telling him of what stories they hide. As a result of this, he starts to have unexplainable fits and seizures which result in him going to see a therapist. The Book of Lost Thingsfollows David, a young boy who is mourning the loss of his dead mother.

The book of lost things by john connolly