The Land Of Stories: An Author's Odyssey

Title	The Land Of Stories: An Author's Odyssey
Author	Chris Colfer
# of Pages	464
Best for Ages	10-13
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Setting:

This book takes place in three main places, Earth, the Land of Stories, and the worlds of Conner’s short stories. It follows the adventures of Alex and Conner Bailey, two twins. This book is told in first person, and is a fantasy-adventure.

Plot:

The Masked Man, Alex and Conner’s uncle, has successfully acquired a Literary army from famous books from the Otherworld, a.k.a Earth. But Alex and Conner have a plan. They intend to gather an army of characters from Conner’s stories, and use them against the masked man. These stories are Starboardia, a pirate adventure, Galaxy Queen, a space adventure that takes place in the future, the Ziblings, a short book about group of family superheroes, and Blimp Boy, the story of a young archeologist. Alex and Conner must navigate all these stories, finding ways to get these characters indebted to them, so they can recruit them to their army. Meanwhile, Bree and the Sister’s Grimm, descendants of the Brothers Grimm, take off to Europe. The reason for this is to investigate the kidnapping of a young boy named Emmerich, who is the Bailey’s friend. But the kidnapper may be the most unsuspected one of them all.

Recommendation:

I love this book! Conner is my favorite character, so visiting worlds of his imagination was fantastic! All the characters, and their reaction to “The Otherworld” was so funny! It was cool to see how the stories were based off the characters from the previous books. As a sidenote, they do visit one of Bree’s stories, which is a cemetery were the people come out of the graves. Kind of weird, and one of the characters gets pulled through the ground by hands. But that only lasts like two chapters, and the book overall rocks!