I tried to like this book but basically found it too unsophisticated. It's like the author wanted to write a fantasy novel for kids in which they get drawn into an alternate world, but he couldn't be bothered putting the energy into creating a world with everything that a world needs, i.e. rules for how it operates, etc. etc., and so he decided to make it a combination of 3 adventure stories that some evil author had written.

The idea isn't new - going into a book - but it has been done much better. And what I particularly didn't like was the readiness the two companion fictional characters had in accepting that they were fictional. That was probably what made this book one that I couldn't recommend.