I picked up this book I because was intrigued by the summary, (and the cover was gorgeous), and I wanted to like it. But I just did not. It's not a bad bad novel, but it was a little bad. Heh. 
 The thing with this book is, it could have been great. It could have been fantastic- I could see that the entire time I was reading it. And all those 'could have been's frustrated me so much, because it wasn't the fault of the plot, but the writing. 
 The characters were just dull. I didn't care even remotely about any of them, least of all our protagonist. The only ones I actually liked were the dwarfs in the Snow White story. Before I reached that part of the book, I was already underwhelmed and thinking of quitting, so that part made me pleasantly surprised. But then, we were back to the dull storytelling. (And the Snow White story was never resolved). 
 Which brings me to the writing. Connolly writes in Omniscient point of view, but the POV itself was so detached. And the actions were just drab. Because this book suffers from a major case of 'tell, not show'. SO. MUCH. TELLING. ALL. THE. TIME. Not to mention, the way David just accepts what is happening to him. (Oh, I accidentally traveled to parallel world, okay!) Or ((view spoiler)[Oh, the books are speaking to me, that's fine! (hide spoiler)]). He was not scared, or terrified or anything. Or maybe he was, and I just couldn't tell, because of the POV. I don't know. 
 And what even was that at the end? The last 150 or so pages, are just the author's thoughts on the book. Which fairytale he included and how he did it and why he did it. Dude, if you think a reader cannot grasp that while reading the book, you either think we are all idiots or the problem is with your writing. Seriously stop. 
 Overall, I rate this book two out of five stars because it was just