Review: The Book Jumper

 The Book Jumper
 Mechthild Glaser


Ever think about a story

inside a story 

inside a story? 

(and not in a "neverending story" kind of way)

but imagine if you could travel into all the books that sit on the shelves beside you...just by opening them up?

or if everytime you were laying in bed, and your arms were hurting from holding up the hardcover (because you couldn't wait for the paperback, and let's be honest, #prettycovers) and so it falls on your face... and then you disappear into the story. 

and now you can sit on the sidelines and watch from the vines as Mowgli plays with Baloo 


and as Alice chases her White Rabbit 

and as Pan and the lost boys travel across Neverland 

*content, wishful sigh*

well, for Amy, her family has this ability. 

Oh, and so does the neighboring family on the Island (population: 12) that they live on 

with a magical library underground that Amy and two teenagers from the rival family, Will and Betsy, have access to in order to fulfill their destiny and responsibility as  Keepers of the Books and Protectors of the Realms. 

They are to stay in the margins of the stories they visit and make sure everyone, and thing, is following the correct plot line. 

When Main Ideas start getting stolen from popular stories, no one is aware how this is possible, or who is behind it and everyone starts blaming each other. 

Amy knows she must get to the bottom of it before the stories she grew up loving are no more. 



I could not put this one down; I loved every aspect of it! 

and while most people I talked to when I had this in my hands the day I bought it assumed it would be similiar to Inkheart, it is nowhere near it - at least, in my opinion. Not that I ever finished Inkheart but I remember the movie being weird. 

Anyways, 

this book gave my bookworm heart a happy inflation of geekiness and a tiny bit of envy because who DOESN'T think about jumping into the stories we love. To meet the characters, to see the lands, to smells the smells ... uh, what?... and with all the twists and turns that this story had, it definitely keeps you on your toes until the very end. 
Put it on the top of your TBR's ladies and gents, you will not be disappointed.


PS "Sherlock Holmes had vanished without a trace" was probably the best ending of a first chapter I have read in a long time.