The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

So how do you judge an exemplary YA adventure that stands out heads and shoulders above everything you've ever read in the field? You don't. Or, at the very least, you judge it by the others in the series. So that's what I'll do. Unfortunately for me, I still can't decide between the first book and thi......more

I always thought I would like this volume least of all - boy, was I wrong! This time we are not following September on one of her adventures in Fairyland. This time we see a wind (the Red Wind) take a troll baby and swap it for a human baby. Thus, Hawthorn grows up as Thomas in Chicago at the same ti......more

Just as delightful upon re-reading it as it was the first time around - despite the initial lack of Fairyland! In this 4th installment of the series, we are in Chicago. After the Red Wind swapped a troll baby against a human one, Hawthorn grows up as Thomas amongst humans. It goes about as well as ca......more

This fourth installment doesn't follow the adventures of September in Fairyland as the previous three have. Here we meet Hawthorn and Tamburlaine, a troll and a tree girl who hide their secrets in the human world until they find each other, and together find Fairyland. September does of course put i......more

I just want to eat Valente’s words. All of them. They’re like cream cakes and jam-covered scones and fairy cakes with buttercream and cookies with gooey centres still warm from the oven and… Yeah, as usual, Valente’s writing is great in The Boy Who Lost Fairyland, and I’m not sure, but I think I may......more