Fresh and funny. 1

Conner and Alex are twins who just tragically lost their father, their mother is struggling to survive and must do accumulate overtime. These are two children struck by sad life that we discover. Conner is a poor student despite his buddies he can not concentrate in school. Alex meanwhile, although good student, has no friends and take refuge somehow in stories and books she collects in her room. Rocked since their earliest childhood by fairy tales, our two heroes will be alternately delighted but also scared when they go accidentally enter into the land of fairy tales. To get out they will face many dangers and collect eight magic items to complete the spell vows.

Twins are surprisingly antithetical to each other. Conner is a boy who does not think too much and often behavior problems, Alex, instead, reflects much less impulsive than his brother, it is also much more disciplined. I preferred his brother Alex because it fits me better, his love for books, that she refuge there, made that I could more easily identify with her. Conner me smile many times but he is not like me. That said I still enjoyed also.
Other Crusaders characters are not really developed but I enjoyed meeting Cinderella, Snow White, Goldilocks, Jack (and the Beanstalk). The principle of years after discovering the stories and see the links between them, designed by Chris Colfer, I was very interested.

I found the Once Upon a Time elements and some things have appeared to me easy to guess compared to the quest twins but I found my child's soul in these 400 pages. And that does not happen often. I had the impression to have another 10 years to discover this novel through my juvenile eyes. Chris Colfer here showed me his writing talent and he delighted me with its simple and fluid pen, her fresh ideas and his ability to make me enter the world of fairy tales. He made me meet characters who are always mythical to me and convinced me his fertile imagination.