The Lost Fairytales by Anna James

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 Tilly and Oskar are bookwanderers. They can travel into any book they want, but their powers are put to the test when fairytales start leaking book magic and causing chaos. While on a trip to Paris, the pair travel into a book of fairytales only to find that the characters are getting lost in the wrong story and mysterious plot holes are opening.

Compared to The Bookwanders, The Lost Fairytales was kind of a letdown. Half of this book didn't seem to have any real plot and Tilly just ran around a book the whole time.

Tilly was so infuriating in this book. She couldn't follow any rules! Her grandparents gave her two rules. ONLY TWO. Tilly broke them both on the same page. She was so careless and had no disregard for others.

In the first book in this series, Tilly worked so hard to find her long-lost mother Bea. Bea was literally only present for a total of maybe ten pages. Most of the time she was in the background and didn't talk, let alone do anything. There was one moment that Tilly and her mother shared but it was so short there was really no time for any daughter/mother bonding.

I think Oskar was the real hero of this book. Tilly pushed him to the background the whole time and I love that in this one chapter, Anna James decides to poke fun at this fact. My favorite scene in The Lost Fairytales was when Melville was kind of ignoring Oskar, meanwhile, he was just complaining about the pain of being a side character. It added some much-needed humor to this book.

Like the first book, the villain was predictable and I actually found this one rather dull but unlike Enoch Chalk, he actually managed to do some lasting damage.

While The Lost Fairytales wasn't my favorite book in the Pages and Co. series, I think Anna James is great at world-building. Everything about the Underlibrary, book magic, and the Archivists left me with no questions.

Page count: 288 pages

Published: September 19, 2019

Genre: fantasy

Series: Pages and Co.

My rating: 3 stars

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