Susan Hoskins grips you in the first chapter and holds you with her until the end. Her characters are uniquely believable with complex personalities that unfold before your eyes. If you like fast action mixed with foreign intrigue and lots of emotion, this series is for you. I've recommended it to everyone and have bought several for gifts. The only hard part is waiting for the final episode in this "Twisted Trilogy."

In this, the second book of Hoskin's promised trilogy, she has truly captured the essence of character development. While Twisted Lights, the first of the trilogy was a true suspense that grew as I kept reading, this one swept me up, and took me on an adventure which left me gasping. Twisted Secrets lets the reader get close to the characters, and then pulls you in with easy to follow, but converging plots. I just loved it, and want to see it next on the Big Screen.

This is a great book. It's about Sylvie and her parent's kingdom. This may sound like a fairytale but it's not. The kingdom is a book. They live in the book and they are the characters. Townley manages to introduce you into a whole new world of the readers, the characters and the mind, and there is still a wonderful story between the description of how one character gets pinned down by a huge finger when the reader uses her finger as a bookmark, and how another character hinds himself between parentheses. The characters say things to believable that I found myself being careful to not let my finger rest on any words for fear that I might squish a character. This is a wonderful book and I would recommend it to everyone in sight!

This book is unbelievable. As soon as you read the first page, you're drawn into a beautiful world full of courage, truth, and compassion. This is a must read for children and adults alike. Princess Sylvie is a character in a book, in this book. The story opens with all of the characters bored and depressed. There hasn't been a reader in years! They brush the dust from their dresses and wait for a new reader. Finally, the cover lifts and Princess Sylvie's book opens.

I will let you discover the rest of this story. This is a beautiful piece of literature, a must have for any reader.

Although listed as a children's book, this book should be read by anyone who's interested in the wonderment of books. It's a delightful story about real characters in books who are alive - and not just in the reader's mind. When the book isn't open, they lie around getting bored but when a 'Reader' comes along, they scramble for their places and take up the story. So what happens when one of the characters actually meets the Reader and helps her with her problems? That's what you'll have to read the book to find out. This one is a must read for writers, readers, and anyone who's in love with the written word. It is a unique, new way of looking at fairy tales.

After reading and loving "A Great Good Thing," I was hoping for this sequel to be as well-written and charming. I was disappointed. It features the same wonderful characters, princess Sylvie and the "girl with the dark blue eyes," as well as the king and queen and all the other characters, but the plot doesn't hold together nearly as well. The author inserts a new character -- a yoga instructor named Rosetta-- into "the story" as an assistant shepherdess, and all the talk of energy projection lines and finding one's center is way above the heads of its 9-12 audience.

Instead of books and their readers, it tackles the problem of the Internet and its viewers -- that is, "the story" is published online. Instead of a little brother who is a pyromaniac and destroys the book in "A Great Good Thing," it seems to deal with a boy who spreads computer viruses -- but this part isn't very clear.

The story borders more on the zany type of puns and Alice-in Wonderland type plot, -- than than the clever, funny and fantastic but logical and believeable plot devices of the original. Characters from other stories wander into the text. Internet "cookies" look like lemon cookies, but are tasteless. Someone steals the "d's" in one paragraph. Entire lines of dialouge disappear, arrows become roses. Persumably all these thing happen due to a computer virus -- but there is no clear character behind or logical reason for the problems. The book suggests a little boy is to blame, but unlike the clear difficulties in the first book -- escaping a burning book and not being forgotten upon the death of the reader -- the villian is murky and there is not a logical direction to the problems. The mysterious villian is defeated eventually -- but you never do learn how or why the virus happened. And by the end of the book, you don't particulary care.

After reading the fabulous The Great Good Thing, I rushed to get this book. I found that Roderick Townley did it again with his second book, Into the Labyrinth. Although it was charming and hard to set down, this book should not be marketed to younger children. This novel would be more of a hit for 11 and up. My 13 year old daughter just started reading it and is already amazed at the creativity. This is a classic for children and adults alike.