Book Review: The Book Jumper

The Book Jumper by Mechthild Gläser
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

What? Why don't people like this book!! I THOROUGHLY enjoyed it.

First, we MUST talk about the cover. This is gorgeous. And absolutely shows enough of what the book is about without giving too much away.

Basically, the main character is from a clan (a freaking clan!!!) and her and her rival clan are both families of "book jumpers". And they can LITERALLY jump into books at this certain location and interact with the characters, and help the story along. Like OMG I would love to do this.

A lot of the magic isn't really explained, and I kind of liked it?? Like we're basically just told that his ability has been in their families for years and that no one else but them can do it. And honestly, sometimes the explanation for how things work can be lost over hundreds of years. And it kind of left it open for the reader to hope to accidentally stumble upon this amazing ability.

And while the plot line was interesting, there were so many classics brought up and partially redone. And it was so cool. I absolutely loved the wild ride we went on. The main character was able to "talk" to characters, and their stories were partially destroyed at one point which put into perspective how integral certain elements were to a storyline. Also you can tell that the author really respected these stories and their writers by the way the story reads.

In addition, there was a part of a story told at the beginning of each chapter that was carried on throughout the book and that had tons of originality and intrigue. I almost wanted to keep reading so I could continue reading that story.

Minus one star, because the diversity was a little lacking. Most of the characters in the book come from two different (European) families. And so most of the diversity comes from the story characters. But even then, it was lacking.

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