Far Far Away

An excellent dark fairy tale. May be a bit too slow for some teen readers and those not familiar with the tone and pacing of older fairy tales. But if you can be patient enough to get into the rhythm of the tale, I think you will be rewarded with an enchanting read.

Some reviewers have noted that the tale seemed to lack good character development for the secondary and tertiary characters. While this is true, I think it fits in with the fact that the narrator is a 19th-century German ghost. He doesn't know the other characters and their motivations the way he knows the protagonist, Jeremy. Nor is he familiar with modern American life. He even states himself a few times that he didn't understand why a character did something. The reader can easily guess at the motivation behind some of these actions, but these would be completely foreign to someone from the ghost's time and place.