Kaysea Eckel: The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell

I’m really excited about my series. The thing that excited me initially was the author, I’ve been a fan of Chris Colfer’s since I began watching Glee. I also found out my cousins attended high school with him so I have to admit that my book choice was sort of swayed based on author but I should also say that it seemed sort of reminiscent of The Chronicles of Narnia Series, just based on the title alone. ( I know, I know, you should never judge a book by its cover but that was an honest initial hook.

When I opened the book I have to say I didn’t expect to start reading the book in Kurt’s voice, Kurt is Chris’ character on Glee and thanks to the directors creative choice he did a lot of voice over style narration on the show, hence me beginning the book in a voice different than my head voice, this honestly made getting immersed a little more difficult which I did not expect.

That being said, I absolutely loved the first chapter, how it started in a Post-fairytale ending world  with Snow White already having her happy-ever-after and the evil queen having long since been locked away. They had this sort of heart to heart that one would never expect having heard the children’s fairytale. The central characters so far are Connor and Alex Bailey.  They are twins and it seems like their supporting characters are going to be the characters we all know from fairytales.  Children and I also think young adults would love these books (s0 far). I feel like the main assumption right now is that children are often sort of whimsical in their beliefs and choices. I haven’t looked up resources on these books yet but I do know that it is on GoodReads and I will have to read further in to assess how I might use it in the classroom other than enhancing reading skills.