
Jack and May’s thrillingly hilarious adventure combines all the classic stories fractured as a broken magic mirror into one epic novel for the ages. Mostly because May s grandmother might just be the long lost Snow White. Yeah, what’s that about? May does need help though a huntsman is chasing her, her grandmother has been kidnapped, and Jack thinks it s all because of the Wicked Queen… In fact, May doesn’t even believe in magic. Who’d want to rescue a snobby, entitled princess anyway? Especially one that falls out of the sky wearing a shirt that says ‘Punk Princess,’ and still denies she’s royalty. After all, his father’s been missing ever since that incident with the beanstalk and the giant, and his grandfather keeps pushing him to get out and find a princess to rescue. In this final installment of the genre-bending Story Thieves series, Owen and Bethany will be forced to risk everything to defeat Nobody and save multiple realities.Life’s no fairy tale for Jack. Then Owen gets trapped in a dark, dystopian reality five years in the future, where nothing is needed more desperately than the power to imagine.įictional Bethany is thrilled to be training with her father as his new sidekick, Twilight Girl-until she realizes that the fictional reality will fade away completely without the nonfictional world to hold it together. He is the New York Times bestselling author of the Half Upon a Time, Story Thieves, Revenge of Magic, and Once Upon Another Time series. Owen-and every other nonfictional person-have lost their imaginations, so they can’t picture their lives any differently.

Bethany has been split in two, with her fictional and nonfictional selves living in the separate realms.īut weirdly, no one seems to mind.

The villain they have come to know as Nobody has ripped asunder the fictional and nonfictional worlds, destroying their connection. Owen and Bethany try to find their way back to each other after the fictional and nonfictional worlds are torn apart in this fifth and final book in the New York Times bestselling series, Story Thieves -which was called a “fast-paced, action-packed tale” by School Library Journal-from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.īethany and Owen have failed.
