High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imagination, he finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a land that is a strange reflection of his own world, populated by heroes and monsters, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book... The Book of Lost Things.
An imaginative tale about navigating the journey into adulthood, while doing your best to hang on to your childhood. - from Amazon.com
This was my first novel by this author, whom I have read good things about (the author, that is). This is a tale about growing up, I think it was meant for a more Young Adult crowd, than an adult one. I rallied through it, as I hoped it would get more interesting, but it flitted through a twisted version of a fairy tale, into another one, enough that I wondered where the real part of the story was going to appear. It finally did appear, and was an okay finish. I think I would have enjoyed this work much more if I had read it when I was 12 years old. That being said, it wasn't a terrible novel, just more suited to a younger reading crowd, in my opinion.
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