Not only is story the magic in this world, the characters are great, the book design is unparalleled in contemporary middle-grade fiction, and family and friendships make a strong if complex core of the novel. Looking forward to the last installment of the series (I guess it will be the last lol) and watching for when I can preorder! I’m awarding this a total rating of 4 stars though it initially clocked in at 2 stars because of the rough start. Never having read or heard of anything by Edward Lear has me extremely interested in getting my hands on some of his work! For example, this book in particular had me craving to read some nonsense poetry. Therefore, I’ve relentlessly been sweeping through classic titles and adding them to my TBR list. The author must have grew up reading classics or developed quite a devoted background to it because she never fails to mention yet another book I’ve missed reading that I shouldn’t have in my younger years. The info dump really supports this conclusion!īut one thing this book series has opened my eyes to is the fact that I missed reading many classic books in my childhood. Though I can’t help but agree with another reviewer on the thread here that this book almost seems forced or pushed out by the author just to keep making $$. They finally start to bookwander, and it gets exciting all over again! That definitely brought back some of the original magic. It finally started to move when Milo and Alessia, teaming up with the botanist of course, started to solve the recipe to get the ingredients they needed to wake up Milo’s uncle Horatio. Needless to say, I didn’t give up since I’ve been pretty devoted to the series and own all the books. It was missing the light airy imaginative feeling the first few books in the series captured perfectly.

This should have been a much quicker read for me, but I struggled for this very reason.

It was like major info dump! I was immediately pulled out of the story, bored and slowly trying to push through. The Treehouse Library is the 5th installment in the Pages & Co Bookwanderers series and the 2nd book in the unexpected trilogy focused on the side character Milo.Īs the 4th installment ended with an abundant # of loose ends, this story suffered a bit during the first third of the story. “Anyone with a good imagination does that all the time anyway we see gaps where stories might be hiding.”

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