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4.5 Stars!

In West Virginia, Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell went missing and vanished during an end of school field trip to Red Crow State Forest. They were gone long enough that people had stopped referring them as missing and now called them lost. They mysteriously reappeared six months later. They were in perfect health. They were taller, stronger with bright eyes and clear skin. How did they survive?

Fifteen years later Jeremy becomes a missing persons investigator and Rafe is a reclusive artist who lives in a cabin in the woods. He has scars inside and out and can't remember how he got them.

This book was such a delight!



The world where this book took me to was just amazing. It was so beautiful! Here is a sneak peak of the description of the Painted Sea. The shore off Painted Sea was swirled with colors, like a child had spilled their jar of rainbow sand everywhere. Pinks and Blues and Greens and Purples. The water was so clear that you could see through it like a window. Small Silver Dolphins and lazy rays played in the surf.

The trees in this world soared a thousand feet too tall. The trunks a hundred feet. These trees had leaves every color of Easter, pink and green and blue and yellow and white. They looked like the trees you might have scribbled as a child with fat Crayola markers to color one tree. Yes, these were a child's imaginary trees made real somehow.

This book was inspired by C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia. This amazing novel is an adult fairytale. I loved her book, The Wishing Game and I loved this one even more. It was my favorite adult fairytale. I loved all the characters. They all were well done.
I want to thank Netgalley and Random House Ballantine Books for the copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.