The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things #2)
John Connolly
Twice upon a time - for that is how some stories should continue . . . Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident. She is a body without a spirit, a stolen child. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud to Phoebe the fairy stories she loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But it is hard to keep faith, so very hard. Now an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something wants her to enter, and to journey - to a land coloured by the memories of Ceres's childhood, and the folklore beloved of her father, to a land of witches and dryads, giants and mandrakes; to a land where old enemies are watching, and waiting.
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This book was just as magical and horrific as the first. We follow Ceres, a mother whose daughter is in a coma, as she deals with her grief and fear of losing her daughter forever. She finds herself in the land of stories, the elsewhere, the same place David found himself when he was searching for his mother who had died. Once in the world Ceres finds herself in the body of a 16 year old, wandering the world as a child. We meet some familiar villains and some unfamiliar ones as Ceres discovers more about herself and questions what she really wants. Does she want to give up and walk away from her live, her daughter, because things have got too hard? Or return to her real life away from this strange and dangerous world?
If you love Grimm fairytale retellings (that out the grim in fairytale), stories within stories, allegories and have read and enjoyed ‘A Monster Calls’ (or even the first book of this series) then I highly recommend this one.
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