A review by krdegan
Tilly and the Map of Stories by Anna James

Read this as a read-aloud with my kids (10 and 13). But unfortunately didn't realize that it was part of a series. It's not marked on the cover or the binding and we picked it up at a small bookstore that only had this volume in stock. So we thought it was a stand-alone. None of us understood what was going on for the first quarter of the book and it was only then that I looked it up and saw that it was part of a series. We finished it to the end, and I think we probably would have really enjoyed it if we had read the first two. But unfortunately my kids weren't up for starting from book 1 -- they weren't that invested in the characters.