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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I picked up this series having found the third book in my library catalog in a search for “archivist”. The archivists in this universe have a mythical or legendary reputation which I’m uncertain about, but I look forward to the third book to hopefully have that explained.
Otherwise, it’s clever, adventure, and has that “I have to know what happens next” quality.
Otherwise, it’s clever, adventure, and has that “I have to know what happens next” quality.
This book is adorable. Really loving this series and enjoying the character development and plot movement!
A cute follow up book in The Pages & Co. series. Not as strong as the first, but we get a lot more mischief and adventure in this one. Tilly and her best friend Oskar are told NOT to explore fairy tales because they don't have the safety of source books. So of course they decide to go bookwandering in one and everything goes wrong. Not wrong in the way that Tilly's grandparents warned, but wrong in that pieces of the story seem missing and characters are acting... well out of character. Could it have anything to do with Mr. Chalk the villain from the first book or is this a new evil? Lot of fun adventures, cute quips, love the comments about librarians. I'm interested to see where the third book goes!
adventurous
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
adventurous
challenging
dark
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Nadal przyjemnie i szybko się czyta, choć niestety dzieci dość irytują, szczególnie Tilly i podejmują głupie momentami decyzje chyba tylko po to, żeby fabuła szła dalej.
I almost gave up on this several times, I just wasn't feeling it, and I ended up being kind of annoyed at it. It's so much like so many other children's books, although I love the idea of bookwandering, but the premise of this book is the basic "adults are kind of stupid and all about due process so the kids rattle off into breaking rules and fixing things with the help of one wacky adult who turns out to be misguided and the other adults were right except oh wait, they weren't". I get tired of that. Couldn't there for once be a wacky adult who wasn't disastrously wrong? Or some reasonable adults who weren't also disastrously wrong? Or why can't the kids be smarter? I know, I know, this is an unreasonable rant, lots of books aren't like this. I just feel like I've read almost this story so many times.
4.5 ⭐
Full of whimsy and adventure, this was a great second book to the series! The vocabulary is not simplified for middle grade readers and the plot is full of life lessons. I look forward to the final book!
Full of whimsy and adventure, this was a great second book to the series! The vocabulary is not simplified for middle grade readers and the plot is full of life lessons. I look forward to the final book!
I have a special love for this series by James and enjoyed this continuation of Tilly's story. By the end of the book it was clear that this was setting up future books and therefore came off as a prequel, however, the work that James did in this book is sure to make for a compelling series of books to come!