The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Genre: fantasy; magical realism Read if you like: The Chronicles of Narnia Wow. I truly have no idea how I received this ARC back before this book was published, and I feel incredibly grateful! My only thought is maybe sharing a last name with a main character helped a little? :) If you are a lover of The Chronicles of Narnia, you have found your next great read! As children, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell go missing in a West Virginia state forest, mysteriously reappearing six months later with no explanation for where they had been or how they survived. Fifteen years later, Jeremy has become a famous missing person investigator. Enter Emilie Wendell, who is determined to find her sister who vanished in the same forest as Jeremy and Rafe. I have not read the authors first novel, The Wishing Game (even though it is on my ever growing TBR). Other readers are saying reading The Wishing Game first set up some unmet expectations, so I am glad I went in “blind”. This book made me feel like fairy tales are real again without seeming like a childrens book, a hard balance to strike. The LGBTQ love story was unexpected and so lovely. My fave quote from the book: “Scared is a feeling, not an excuse”. Which book world would you love to visit?