This is the first I have ever read of John Connolly, and I must say I’m sad I didn’t discover him sooner. Connolly, like all of us who read, has created his own world to escape into. He chose to share it with the world in poetic style like any fairy tale you’ve read. I think we all have our own version of Narnia, and this was his.
The Book Of Lost Things is a coming of age fairy tale adventure in the vein of C.S. Lewis. Connolly used a minimalist, poetic style and classic fairy tale structure to take the reader to the other world while allowing freedom to see it in their own way.
This story is fantasy at its roots. Very well done.
