Book Review: The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found by Jordan Lees

The Labyrinth of Lost and Found by Jordan Lees
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book was so good that I read it in a day. This book made me smile, gasp, feel all of the emotions when I was reading it. I wasn't prepared for how hard this story would hit me, and honestly, I was ready to rock and roll and join Benjamiah Creek and his adventures with Elizabella, trying to find her brother. This does deal with the topic of death, but it is dealt with so well that I was close to crying.

Benjamiah Creek doesn't believe in magic. He believes in facts and what is real. One day, he receives a doll that he assumes is from his parents, and when he goes to sleep, the doll comes to live as a bird one night and a monkey another night. Benjamiah doesn't believe that this doll is magic, but one night when he goes to sleep, it wakes him up and takes him to a Victorian-era world, filled with promises that are on coins, magic, and dolls that look like his.

Benjamiah meets Hansel and Elizabella; at first, Elizabella doesn't like him. She was upset that her brother was missing and no one was doing anything about it. Then she has an idea that makes her leave her house to go and find her. Benjamiah wakes up and decides to help her, even though she doesn't want him to go. The two go to a forest and find a box with a string in it, named Ariadne, but before that they find a whisperwick that gives them a fragment of a poem that leads them on this adventure of finding Elizabella's brother.

They break into a woman called the Viper's house to find a whisperwick, they meet her daughter and good lord this girl is a terrible person, and then they get caught, go to the mapmakers place to find information about the Minotaur and also find out that they were looking for Ariadne. The shocking discovery that The Minotaur is just a man and not like the famed mythological beast, and all he does is drink and go to sleep, and the betrayal thanks to the evil magus who wanted it so he could reunite with his love.

When they found out what happened to Edwid, Elizabella's brother, it did hurt so, so much. I wasn't expecting it, like I normally would when I read these books, but finding out what he was, how he died....ow. It was so painful that I actually did wanna cry.

This was such a good book, even though it is a middle-grade novel. It was fun, the pictures were fantastic, and I wanna read more of this book series, because this was such a really good book.

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