A review by sarahetc
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

2.0

The Book of Lost Things seems to begin with an adolescent premise. Let's make fairy tales super gross and not at all like we know them. Several hundred loping, inelegant pages later, it ends with childhood treacle: everybody really does live happily ever after and get exactly what they want. In between there is a significant amount of whining, a great number of rough point of view switches, stories within stories to pad the page count, and character revelation that functions as deus-ex-machina without actually making anything happen. Had I to do it over again, I'd lose the book of lost things.