Book Review
Apr. 25th, 2021 04:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariThe Boy Who Lost Fairyland
by Catherynne M. Valente
The Boy who Lost Fairyland is the penultimate novel in the series, and it's a bit of departure. Instead of following September's latest adventure in Fairyland, we get the story of a Changeling. But not the tale of the human child taken away to Fairyland, the tale of the fairy placed in the human world. Hawthorn is a troll kidnapped and sent to Chicago to replace the young Thomas Rood. Hawthorn lives Thomas' life but never quite fits in with either his family or his schoolmates. At the age of 12, Hawthorn stumbles back into Fairyland, with the help of his fellow misfit friend Tamburlaine.
I enjoyed this book and found the departure from the other volumes to be very successful. It's just the right place in the series for a change of pace. It was also fun to see the human world through a fairy's eyes and to see Fairyland through the eyes of a character for whom traveling there is a homecoming rather than a strange adventure.
by Catherynne M. Valente
The Boy who Lost Fairyland is the penultimate novel in the series, and it's a bit of departure. Instead of following September's latest adventure in Fairyland, we get the story of a Changeling. But not the tale of the human child taken away to Fairyland, the tale of the fairy placed in the human world. Hawthorn is a troll kidnapped and sent to Chicago to replace the young Thomas Rood. Hawthorn lives Thomas' life but never quite fits in with either his family or his schoolmates. At the age of 12, Hawthorn stumbles back into Fairyland, with the help of his fellow misfit friend Tamburlaine.
I enjoyed this book and found the departure from the other volumes to be very successful. It's just the right place in the series for a change of pace. It was also fun to see the human world through a fairy's eyes and to see Fairyland through the eyes of a character for whom traveling there is a homecoming rather than a strange adventure.
