♥︎ Heather ⚔ 's Reviews > The Lost Story

📚🪄✨ "All books are magic. An object that can take you to another world without even leaving your room? A story written by a stranger and yet it seems they wrote it just for you or to you? Loving and hating people made out of ink and paper, not flesh and blood? Yes, books are magic. Maybe even the strongest magic there is." 📚🪄✨

Happy release day!! 7/16/24 🥰

꧁•⊹٭𝙰𝙻𝙻. 𝚃𝙷𝙴. 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚁𝚂.٭⊹•꧂


I mean... can we just take a min- THIS COVER!!! 🥹😍...k...moving along...


╰┈➤ 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓑𝓵𝓾𝓻𝓫

As young boys, best friends Jeremy and Rafe go missing in Virginia State Park. Mysteriously reappearing six months later with no explanation as to where they were or how they managed to survive.

Fifteen years later, Jeremy is a missing persons investigator with an almost magical ability to find find the lost, while Rafe is now a reclusive artist living in a cabin in the woods. He bears scars from the time of their disappearance both inside and out but has no memory of what happened.

Jeremy alone knows the fantastical truth behind their time in the woods. While the rest of the world was searching for them, the two missing boys were in a magical realm filled with impossible beauty and terrible danger. However, Jeremy has not filled Rafe in on what happened... he's avoided him pretty much since they returned from being lost and they're not exactly on speaking terms.

But these two will have to learn to get along again, because a young woman named Emilie needs help from the both of them to locate her sister who disappeared in the same area they did…

╰┈➤ 𝓜𝔂 𝓣𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼

This was such a good story! I mean- SO GOOD! I loved each and every one of these characters!

This world came alive in my mind and completely whisked me away from my day to day stress! I needed to savor this story! I want to live there!!

Such a cozy feel good fairytale! This book made my heart sinnggggg!!! 🎤🎼

This book has it all- a queen 👑, a princess 👸🏻, a knight ⚔️🛡️, a prince 🤴🏻, unicorns 🦄, sword fighting 🤺, mermaids 🧜🏻‍♀️, a red crow ❤️🐦‍⬛ and a magical land ✨🏰.

I was immediately pulled into the story and it kept it's grip on me from page one until the end. It's so whimsical ✨, magical ✨ and reminiscent of stories I loved to read as a child- wink 😉. Specifically, Narnia and The Wizard of Oz. There's just something so captivating and mesmerizing about the idea of walking through a door and into another world.

With all of the fun and magic going on Shaffer also tackles some tough issues such as suicide, adoption, death, abuse, family drama.

I'm telling ya'll, by the time I got to the last few chapters I couldn't hold back the tears- I just loved this so much that I couldn't even contain them!

I also really enjoyed the interludes where the Story Teller steps in and gives us helpful information. Normally, I'm not a fan of breaking the fourth wall but this was done masterfully!

I'm such a die hard Meg Shaffer aka Tiffany Reisz fan and she just continues to solidify all the reasons why with yet another banger!! 💖🌷

Instantly a forever favorite! 💖

Already on pre-order! If you enjoyed The Wishing Game- you will LOVE this one!!

╰┈➤ 𝓦𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓒𝓪𝓷 𝓔𝔁𝓹𝓮𝓬𝓽

🐀 LGBTQ Rep
🐀 Found Family
🐀 Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac references
🐀 A pet fancy rat



Many thanks to NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, and Meg Shaffer for this ARC in exchange for an honest review 🥰💘💐