Anybody on Goodreads obviously cares about stories, whether they provide an alternate world for your brain to reside in for awhile, tell you about a historical event or educate you about how to fix a toilet, illuminate people's experiences in beautiful, brutal, or uplifting ways, or just provide an hour or two of amusement. Stories matter, whether people get them from books or not, but reading and the writing of stories has its own power.The Unwritten knows this deeply, this obvious truth that w...

The shadowy cabal makes a move, forcing Wilson out from the shadows. There’s a very excellent choose-your-own-adventure issue that’s double the size by splitting pages in half, all about Lizzie’s backstory. More reveals than anything previous, and one or two plot tangents are closed entirely (AFAI remember).The concept of a liminal, physical space for both the mark a story has on culture and history, while also putting a different importance on the relationships to stories, is such a fantastic d...

This series continues to be really great, but this volume gets ...eh, let's say a 3.5 rounded down to a 3 for two reasons that, while annoying to me, might have no bearing on your enjoyment whatsoever. The first is that one of the issues is a choose your own adventure style book about Lizzie's past. I am psyched that we got an issue all about Lizzie, but I hate choose your own adventure and also it just does NOT work when I'm reading this digitally. I cannot flip to page 50 then back to page 9 t...

The whole Tom/Tommy Taylor story appears on the surface to be a riff off of J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter. The whole story is much more than that, and writer Mike Carey (of the Felix Catsor novels) is beginning to tread deeper into the realm of metafiction. As in the impact of stories on our lives. We finally meet Wilson, Tom's father, and we do get some explanation as to why Tom and the Tommy Taylor books are important. While much is left unresolved this remains a fulfilling read.

4.5 stars!By far my favorite Unwritten volume. From the introduction to the last page I was very much attached to the story. Not as heart wrenching as the last one but still my sympathy was needed for Lizzie. I don't know what to think about Wilson and the path he has created for his "characters". Was what he did to Lizzie / for Lizzie the right decision? The "choose your own adventure" part was fantastic. What a great way to switch things up and get the reader even more involved in the story. I...

Continues to be fun!

The ingenuity and skill of this series continues to boggle my mind. Are you a reader? Read it. Read it. Read it.a quote from the intro, by Steven Hall:Most people don't have the first idea about the true power of stories. I'm sure you know this. I'm sure you do, because you're a reader - you're reading this book right now. You're bound to know a thing or two about it.Maybe you're the woman on the train who doesn't ever let the raised eyebrows of grey-looking office workers put her off her comic

So good! I wish more people read graphic novels - they're willing to experiment and expand the boundaries of fiction in such extraordinary ways. I can't wait o see where the story will travel to next!

Another fun volume, a lot of time spent on Lizzie Hexam/Jane Waxman, but never at the expense of the overall plotline. There is a choose your own adventure style issue which gives Lizzie's background and surprisingly it wasn't a mess. Perhaps I should have had more confidence in Carey and Gross, but I have to admit that I couldn't see how it would work without either offering almost no choices, or resulting in such widely divergent stories that it would be really annoying as a reader. Instead th...

I can't finish this. The series had promise and was quite ingenious in the way classic literature was incorporated into the story. Ultimately, the series suffered from schizophrenia and failed to be coherent. I could not follow the convoluted storyline and lost interest.

December 2015: The Unwritten continues with a volume that makes the weird and fictional even more indistinguishable from reality. Several things are happening all at once here. Tom, Lizzie and Savoy have reappeared in London after their jaunt in "Jud Suss", only three months have gone by in the real world for their mere hours spent in "Jud Suss". Tom is presumed dead in the fire at Donostia prison, and the world is abuzz with the imminent publication of the fourteenth and final Tommy Taylor nove...

One cool thing about this volume is that you get a few answers.I mean, not all of the answers, but enough to make you want to keep going with this title. I had a few a few suspicions that it was nice to get confirmation on, and there were some things that I didn't see coming at all. Good stuff!Like most everyone else, I was really impressed with the issue that was a Choose Your Own Adventure of Lizzie's origin story. I thought it was neat that you don't get a definitive answer, because it looks

Tommy is back for another volume. We are learning more of this world and how it works. Tommy is beginning to comprehend that he is more than just a normal human and maybe he is more his dad's character in this story. Lizzie has some surprising back story in the book as well.There is one issue in this volume that is told like a choose your own adventure book and I did not care for that issue. It was tiring to read and a waste of time. Only my opinion.I do wonder when Tommy is going to come into h...

I think I like the direction this seems to be going in now. Many of the plot threads from the previous volume have been wrapped up, or seem to have been wrapped up, with some new ones to keep momentum up. The Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style of Lizzie's origin was cool, clever, and a good reflection of what was going on in her own head. But I always did love Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books. It was easy enough for me to explore every path, because there's a lot of overlapping. Trying to read it st...

Despite the Our Mutual Friend (one of my favorite books) connection, I didn't like this installment nearly as much as the first two. That's probably because I never cared for the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books (my youngest brother read some of them), which is the well-done 'gimmick' in the middle of this book. I didn't follow the directions, but read the pages straight through, just as I was instructed not to do, but doing otherwise would've driven me batty. There's also one big unanswered qu...

This 3rd volume is where the story really starts to take off! Don't get me wrong - the first two volumes were chock full of 'HELL YEAH,' but it's in this third arc where, as the reader, you discover that you have to be alert and pay attention to what's going on. This story is smart. You can't be dumb.Also...CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!! What? Awesome! I loved how we finally got the goods on Lizzie Hexam and it was presented to us as a Which Way book. Lotta fun to read - but brutal on my physical T...

I preferred this to the last volume. I am still undecided whether I like this series as a whole. Good and bad. I love the literary nods and the concept of metafiction. How can I not as such a bibliophile? I find the imagination of this series infectious, but there is a lot of meanness with the storyline and the characters. I feel a lot of sympathy for both Tom and Lizzie. They are both being manipulated by grand masters at the game. Lizzie is both better off in that she has more understanding of...

It starts out a confusing read - lots of secondary characters to keep track of/remember from the previous volumes, and sideways references to happenings/literary devices that I'm sure I'm not following. This series begs a re-read all at once.I truly enjoyed the choose-your-own-adventure story in the middle. Not only does it give you a taste of where Lizzie's head must be, but also plays out her origin in a fun and Memento-like way. Re-reading the story non-linearly was an extra bonus, and the ta...

More 3.5 for me. The Lizzie chapter was really cool and creative.

The “Choose You Own Adventure” portion of this book alone made it worth reading.