ISBN: 0743298853

I JUST finished reading John Connolly's The Book of Lost Things. I have never read him before, and I LOVED IT! It's creepy and dark, but not horror, but still gives you shivers. Very adult fairy tale-ish, as in, fairy tales gone wrong. Very graphic and some gore, but also a gorgeously constructed story, with a slight "coming of age" undertone. David is a twelve year old boy who loses his mother during the war, and must soon deal with a new mother and half-brother after his father re-marries. He is a lover of books and stories, and soon the books begin to talk to him. This is the start of a strange adventure he falls into, one that is dangerous and disturbing, but one that he cannot avoid. In a dark, violent other world, he encounters The Crooked Man, whose fate is tied up in his own. David must find The Book of Lost Things in order to go home, back to a reality that no longer seems so threatnening.
I highly recommend it! Four balls of yarn.
I am also going to read his other books now.