Two different stories but so twisted together they fed off one another. A new fairy tale about a prince looking for his princess and the implications of his quest. Although he thought he did not have what it took to be a prince, he had to do some soul-searching to find what those attributes really meant and brave the battles that came his way. The story-within-the-story was the real adventure that captured my attention and had me wondering what the heck was happening. At first, this double feature had me looped but as I read, I loved the drama between Delilah and Oliver. Oliver, the prince who no longer wanted to live in the pages of the book that Delilah was reading and Delilah who was determined to get him out of the book. It's another fairy tale of fantasy portions as the relationship of these two deepens and the reader feels for all the characters involved. If Oliver leaves the original fairy tale what happens to the princess and "happily ever after" and what happens to the characters in that book? Do they go about their lives without the prince? What about Delilah, if she can't get Oliver out of his fairy tale, will she not have her "happily ever after"? But...what if she does get him out, how can this be? She is a human, a person like you and me, and he afterall is a person created in a fairy tale. Oh, the implications of such love.As a child, I would shut my bedroom door as I left for school, wondering what my stuffed animals would do while I was gone. I'd wonder how my toys felt if I played with one toy more than another. That has gone one step further today, as we watch Toy Story but to animate a character from a text was fantastic. As readers, we fall in love with our books, we adore our actresses and actors in the pages. We all feel a part of the stage when we fall in love with the drama but to take it a step farther and pull that character out so we can hold them in our hands or look one-on-one with them was truly astonishing. I admit that switching gears from the fairy tale, to Oliver's side of the story to Delilah's view took a while to get used to but with the different style of writing and different color text, I got used to it (these 3 headings rotate every 3 chapters). The book went fast and it is definitely worth reading.
