This was magical and unlike anything I have read before.
When I read the blurb I was intrigued enough to want to read it but it also gave nothing away.
Truly it's hard to describe this book with words which is kinda ironic as that's the whole premise of the story.
A brief outline is this is the tale of a word's journey, it has lost the meaning and essence of itself and undertakes a quest to find out who and what it's meaning is.
Along the way it meets some great characters, heard some wonderful tales itself and share beautiful witticisms, snippets of poetry and wise sayings and the meanings of things, words, overall just little concepts to make you think about words and analyse them a whole lot more.
For me as a reader words are pure art, magic and a doorway to other worlds but now after reading this I will imbue each word with its own little "character."
This reminds me and has elements of some of my all time favourite stories, the wanting to keep words alive reminds me of the same kind of concept of The land of forgotten beasts and the land of letters in The phantom tollbooth but at the same time it was totally different.
Just like the person who wrote the book blurb I'm finding it difficult to pin down and encapsulate the essence fully of this novel, it's really something someone would have to read for themselves BUT it would only probably be appreciated by those into wordplay, word games, whimsical stories and a love of words and reading in general.
When I read the blurb I was intrigued enough to want to read it but it also gave nothing away.
Truly it's hard to describe this book with words which is kinda ironic as that's the whole premise of the story.
A brief outline is this is the tale of a word's journey, it has lost the meaning and essence of itself and undertakes a quest to find out who and what it's meaning is.
Along the way it meets some great characters, heard some wonderful tales itself and share beautiful witticisms, snippets of poetry and wise sayings and the meanings of things, words, overall just little concepts to make you think about words and analyse them a whole lot more.
For me as a reader words are pure art, magic and a doorway to other worlds but now after reading this I will imbue each word with its own little "character."
This reminds me and has elements of some of my all time favourite stories, the wanting to keep words alive reminds me of the same kind of concept of The land of forgotten beasts and the land of letters in The phantom tollbooth but at the same time it was totally different.
Just like the person who wrote the book blurb I'm finding it difficult to pin down and encapsulate the essence fully of this novel, it's really something someone would have to read for themselves BUT it would only probably be appreciated by those into wordplay, word games, whimsical stories and a love of words and reading in general.