Naturally, I’m automatically wary of any book that shows you how to pronounce the character’s name in the summary (and even though it wasn’t included on the actual book, it was still brought up in the narration), but I was still happy when I was asked to read it. The idea of jumping into your favorite books was intriguing, and even though I normally hate name dropping, I liked that these were recognizable titles. However, everything was just too…heavy. Lourey tried really hard to keep an interesting narration and to use a thesaurus as often as possible, and it just hindered the story rather than added to it because it was simply too much. Plus, I felt like a lot of things didn’t add up, and there were some mistakes that didn’t make sense that really should have been found out and edited a long time ago. I would probably have liked this more if I was twelve or thirteen, but it was still just a little less than average, in my opinion.A copy of this book was provided by the author for review.Read more?http://thaliasbooks.tumblr.com/post/37504402534/the-toadhouse-trilogy-book-one-review