A review by lesserjoke
Willow Moss & the Lost Day by Dominique Valente

2.0

A whimsical yet somewhat generic children's fantasy novel. I'd still maybe recommend it to kids or their parents who are tired of rereading classics like The Enchanted Forest Chronicles and The Two Princesses of Bamarre, but there's not really much in this first Starfell volume demanding its own place in that company. Although I enjoy the motivating incident of no one remembering what happened last Tuesday, I feel like that rather dissipates as a plot concern with each new introduction of someone drawing a ridiculous conclusion from their short-term amnesia. And between the stock fairy tale elements and the heavy exposition, it's just hard to get a great sense of the protagonist's character or the exact stakes of her world.

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