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  • It makes me sad to write this as John Connolly is one of my favorite writers. But this book.... dismal. I will probably give it a second chance, but for now, I have to abandon it.

    It takes in WWII. A young boy has lost his mother, his father remarried quickly and now he has an infant broth ... Continue

    It makes me sad to write this as John Connolly is one of my favorite writers. But this book.... dismal. I will probably give it a second chance, but for now, I have to abandon it.

    It takes in WWII. A young boy has lost his mother, his father remarried quickly and now he has an infant brother. He and his step-mum do not get along and his father seems to blame him.

    One night as he lies sleeping his mother's voice awakens him. He follows her voice to a tree. At the same time he gets to the tree a plane crashes into his backyard. The mother's voice tells him to come into the tree, so he does... and lands in a different world. It gets a bit chaotic after this.

    

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New York Times bestselling author John Connolly's unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love, and the redemptive power of stories.

High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imagination, he finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a land that is a strange reflection of his own world, populated by heroes and monsters, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book... The Book of Lost Things.

An imaginative tribute to the journey we must all make through the loss of innocence into adulthood, John Connolly's latest novel is a book for every adult who can recall the moment when childhood began to fade, and for every adult about to face that moment. The Book of Lost Things is a story of hope for all who have lost, and for all who have yet to lose. It is an exhilarating tale that reminds us of the enduring power of stories in our lives.

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