**i received this ARC from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review**

The premise behind this story- a writers characters coming to life- is something that I absolutely love. It was a little reminiscent of Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart series in that sort of words can come to life, whimsical way but it fell a little flat for me.

Laney’s writing reads really immature to me, which is pretty appropriate for her age, but I just expected more with her gift of being a weaver.

I feel like she comes to the conclusion that Jonas is alive and walking around instantly and doesn’t even question it-just goes along with it and it felt rushed and forced to introduce that so quickly and with so little explanation or confusion. That wouldn’t have been the first thing to cross my mind had a stranger pushed me down a flight of stairs!

I don’t love Jason’s character. He isn’t a good friend and just expects her to let him pick back up as such when he’s had little to do with her in HS. I spent more time wanting to wring his selfish little neck than cheer him on.

Overall it was good. I think with a little more tweaking and maybe some changes here and there it could have been better than good.