The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns
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4.7 • 794 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
After decades of hiding, the evil Enchantress who cursed Sleeping Beauty is back with a vengeance.
Alex and Conner Bailey have not been back to the magical Land of Stories since their adventures in The Wishing Spell ended. But one night, they learn the famed Enchantress has kidnapped their mother! Against the will of their grandmother, the twins must find their own way into the Land of Stories to rescue their mother and save the fairy tale world from the greatest threat it's ever faced.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It's hard not to love a book dedicated to the Glee star's grandmother, who gave him this early advice: "Christopher, I think you should wait until you're done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer." In this entertaining if a bit overlong first novel, 12-year-old twins Alex (a girl) and Conner fall into their grandmother's cherished book of stories and arrive in fairy tale land. The only way to get home is a convoluted scavenger hunt that requires them to collect eight tokens from various fairy tales Cinderella's glass slipper, a lock of Rapunzel's hair, etc. The ending is never in doubt, but it's a difficult journey as the twins meet the Big Bad Wolf Pack, are enslaved by trolls, and kidnapped by Snow White's evil stepmother. Colfer gets off many good lines Conner's dialogue especially sounds like quips Kurt Hummel might make, as when the twins swim across an icy moat: "Wooo! It's so cold, I think we may be twin sisters now." The nifty ending ties the plot's multiple strands up while leaving room for further fairy tale adventures. Ages 8 up.
Customer Reviews
Such a great book.
This book is everything but bad. It is full of adventure, drama, and love. While I read this book, it intrigued me. It startled me, and it scared me. But all in all the book was great.
Awesome!
This book is SO good and I recommend this book by the following:
-Adventure
-Puns
-Humor
4 1/2 stars
This book was really good. I am 10 and I went to a camp were they read this to us in the afternoons, I loved it. The only thing is it could have bin a tad bit more publicized there were more mistakes then I would have liked but it was an amazing bookBooks