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Lost Is Right!
I understand Maguire's rise to fame having read Wicked and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. I loved both and was excited to read Lost, even if it seemed like it wouldn't be sticking to our original assumptions of Maguire's twisting of stories we grew up with. Well, I was sorely disappointed throughout. I love the stories of the past, but often hated the writing. I could never really get in touch with the characters presented to me. Lost does that and so much worse.

The book itself seems to mix a Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, and Ebeneezer Scrooge cocktail that is as vile as an Irish Car Bomb that sat a few seconds too long. All the ingredients are there but the liquid went sour. I like the techniques he uses to weave a story and get you interested but it seems to just crumble at the seams. His characters are hardly likable what with their 'better than you' dialogue and their unrealistic quality. Perhaps that was intentional, though. Why do I say this? Our main character, Winifred, weaves stories as a novelist and seems to cuddle with fairytales that she and we grew up with. Those same fairytales have that unrealistic quality so I'm divided on that issue.

However, the story itself is an overlapping debacle that goes nowhere and everywhere at the same time. It's truly difficult to grasp onto anything that Winnie is doing or why. Eventually reasons are given but most don't make up for previous actions.

Gratefully it is an easy read and a quick one at that. I would also hazard to mention that Maguire's humor truly keeps the story going and the link-up's between characters of Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, and the delightful Scrooge was probably the most fascinating thing about this novel. I would not recommend it as a first Maguire read since it may put you off from reading the much better works he has put out. I can simply say that you should proceed with caution.