"Far Far Away" by Tom McNeal (369 pages)

This is a strange, but fateful fairy tale of a boy named Jeremy Johnson, a girl named Ginger Boultinghouse, and a ghost, Jacob Grimm who live in a town called Never Better. Jeremy is the only person who can hear Jacob, who is the voice of the story. Jeremy and his father inherited the Two-Book Bookstore from his grandfather, where they live upstairs and are slowly losing it due financial issues.

The 'Bad Guy' Sten Blix, is the baker downtown who makes cakes that supposedly make you fall in love with the next person you see, which for Ginger, happened to be Jeremy. Jacob tells Jeremy to keep focus on school and ignore Ginger. He wants him to focus on his school work and study, study, study. He begins to hangout with Ginger more and sneak out at night and play pranks on people in their neighborhood, until one prank goes wrong, which is only the beginning of his troubles.

This novel took me by surprise. It's not a typical supernatural, horror, fairy tale, or  fantasy novel, it's all of those genres wrapped in one. This book is extremely hard to review because one event leads to another so quickly that spoiling it is way too easy. Although this book was out of my comfort zone, and the plot was so unusual and strange, I still thought the story was at the perfect pace. If you're looking for a book with a twisted but delightful plot, this is the book for you.

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