Don’t Read This Book Series!

II was highly disappointed when I read this book series. It started so promisingly! Why, why, why did it have to go down hill?!?!

The book series Pages and Co. had such a promising start! But it went downhill fast. The idea of a certain group of people who can travel into books is fun, imaginative, and sounds like a promising series full of friendship and books. Seriously WHAT COULD BE BETTER!?!? Well, that's how it sounded. When you read the back of the first book of the Pages and Co. series (The Bookwanderers) it sounds incredible, and plus it's a whole series! Double win!!! But no. The first book was…ok (look at the review to see my thoughts in detail). The fact that Tilly’s mom had a child with Captain Crew (from the book A Little Princess) was odd, and made it a less enjoyable read. Along with this a character’s parents were divorced, and it was thought to be normal. These facts made the first book less enjoyable than it could have been, but the plot was still fun. The second book (Tilly and the Lost FairyTales) got worse. Tilly gets rebellious and it is not shown to be a bad thing. There is conflicting views on things happening in the world of bookwanderers, and you are not sure which to side with. Now this is not generally bad, but it tied into Tilly disobeying her grandparents and trusting dangerous people. Then it ends on a cliffhanger. Again I am not normally opposed to books ending on a cliffhanger, unless there is not a follow up book. (For the record when I say I don’t like books ending on cliffhangers, I mean when a book ends and the villains are undefeated. When the last book ends on a good cliffhanger, like “he saw his mother walk over the sunlit hill,” that is not a problem.) It is a way of keeping your readers engaged, and on the edge of their seats. However when I got the next book (Tilly and the Map of Stories) an unforgivable thing happened. There was an extremely inappropriate relationship that made it impossible to continue reading. The book started promising and sloooowly went down hill. The first two books are ok with guidance, but I don’t recommend them because the second one ends on a cliffhanger. In short DON’T READ THIS BOOK!