Of course it was written for children so maybe I was expecting too much. I felt the key parts of the story unravelled rapidly and the rest was just a lot of padding. An interesting concept but a little undercooked for me. With thanks to Nudge Books for providing a sample Audible copy.
Lots of excitement and the potential for adventure. A great start to a series, will be pored over by young literature lovers (and those adults who read them as children). She also kept Tilly sounding her age, though I wasn't too keen on her accent for Anne Shirley (or how she pronounced Avonlea!). I really liked this as an audiobook, it was a well-narrated story that transferred well for listeners, with the narrator voicing Tilly, her friends and family as well as the book characters with distinctions. This will all wash over the heads of readers who aren't familiar with such titles as Anne of Green Gables, Alice in Wonderland and A Little Princess, but for those who love these stories, it will be a real treat seeing their favourite lovingly worked over and meshed together into a story. It's the start of a book lover's paradise, a wish fulfillment - what if you could travel inside your favourite stories? It did remind me of Inkheart at several points, but used real books and characters known and loved the world over, using real details and scenes from them. and she may be able to go back with them. Tilly soon realises that she is meeting characters from her favourite books. Wanting to know more about her mother, she notices one day strange people appearing in the bookshop that seem somehow familiar. Growing up around books she is a true reader, and despite not knowing her father, her mother disappearing while she was still a baby, books are her respite. Tilly Pages lives above her grandparents' bookshop. Immersive story and famous characters make for a young book lover's dream. Sometimes the novels chosen are new, often they are from the backlist and occasionally re-issued from way back.Immersive story is a young book lover's dream But to keep ourselves on our toes, we have a rule that author gender is alternated, girl-boy-girl-boy, and the continents always rotated (with occasional glitches). Too good to be true? The catch is that the bookshop gets to choose what the book group reads. Each month the discussion is lively and unpretentious, with naughty snacks and plenty to drink. You don’t even have to have had read the book. The title to be read and discussed is sign-posted and on sale for the whole of the previous month (with a discount for those who make it known they intend to come) and everybody is welcome, whether first-timer, part-timer or regular-timer. With rare exceptions such as bank holidays, the book group meets on the first Wednesday of every month at 7.30pm. Now past its tenth year the Crow Book Group has grown into a regular social event.
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