“I'm sorry jentaw, but I would have to disagree. I found this book extremely boring and difficult to finish. It's probably because I only like about 25% of the fantasy I have read, but I did like his message about Believing.”
“What a wonderful surprise this book was. An incredibly quick read, suffused with sunlight and carried along by beautiful, evocative writing. This book is a complete pleasure and, with the exception of a tiny fraction of the very beginning, such a complete and total departure from Chabon's dark short stories that it's remarkable the same author penned both. He treads some of the same ground as Neil Gaiman here, but in a completely different way; and though the book has the same beauty as The Amazing Adventures, it is not so mired in despair...it is aimed at young people, so while it doesn't sidestep sadness or shrink from the ugly surprises and arbitrary unfairnesses of life, it's still filled with hope.”
