It starts out as a coming of age story with fantastic elements and devolves a bit into episodic stories with nothing in common but the main character. To me, these are Alice in Wonderland rip offs and they bother me. The writing is nice but the plot suffers more as the story nears it's end. I have read one previous book by Valente - the first book in the Fairyland series. It had the exact same problem and I refuse to keep reading the series. I do however have 5-6 more of her books on my reading list, but I think if they all end up like this, I may not finish many more.

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