Unwritten by Tara Gilboy Review

Book Summary

Twelve-year-old Gracie Freeman is living a normal life, but she is haunted by the fact that she is actually a character from a story, an unpublished fairy tale she’s never read. When she was a baby, her parents learned that she was supposed to die in the story, and with the help of a magic book, took her out of the story, and into the outside world, where she could be safe.

But Gracie longs to know what the story says about her. Despite her mother’s warnings, Gracie seeks out the story’s author, setting in motion a chain of events that draws herself, her mother, and other former storybook characters back into the forgotten tale. Inside the story, Gracie struggles to navigate the blurred boundary between who she really is and the surprising things the author wrote about her. As the story moves toward its deadly climax, Gracie realizes she’ll have to face a dark truth and figure out her own fairy tale ending.

My Thoughts

What if every story ever is written is a world in another dimension, waiting for us to find it? 

Have you ever imagine that all of the characters in your favorite book might be alive in another dimension? That they are not just some two-dimensional characters but also speak and breath like us?

Gracie, a twelve-year-old girl, is coming literally out-of-the-book to our real world with her mom. Her original world, Bondoff was from the unpublished story. 

Her mom told her that her fate in the book didn’t end well, she died when she was just a baby in the story. So in order to save her, her mom took her out of their fiction village to the real world. 

When the author of Gracie’s story come to her town for fan signing, she couldn’t resist to meet her even though her mother bans her. She had to know her story from the author herself. Why did she intend to kill Gracie in her book? 

Before reading this book, I thought this was only like another middle-grade children book with a princessy story and cotton candy and cherry on top, I expect some light cute read just like the cover itself. Wow, I didn’t expect the story would be this kind of deep thinking. 

Regarding the word choice, this book is easy to finish. This is a middle-grade children book so the way the author telling us her story is simple and clear yet it holds true powerful meaning. 

Another good point I would like to say is I like the ending very much. I won’t spoil you how Gracie’s story ends, you need to read it yourself. ;)

A copy was provided by the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. 

My rating is 4 out of 5 stars.