I started reading this book a few days ago and it’s fantastic!

Blurb from the back of the book
High in his attic bedroom, twelve year old David mourns the loss of his mother. He is angry and he is alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother he finds that the real world and the fantasy world have started to meld. The Crooked Man has come, with his mocking smile and hisenigmatic words: ‘Welcome, your majesty. All hail the new king.’And as war rages across Europe, David is violently propelled into a land that is both a construct of his imagination yet frighteningly real, a strange reflection of his own world composed of myths and stories, populated by wolves and worse-than-wolves, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious legendary book…

DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THE BOOK

The dwarfs in particular have to be my favourite characters so far, they have made me laugh out loud! I love the way the endings of well known fairytales have been changed in this book. It’s a good lighthearted read with plenty of smiles.