#meg shaffer

books I’ve read in 2026 📖 no. 044

The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer

I enjoyed The Lost Story a lot.

Hello!!❤❤

Here's another book fanart!

Here's Hugo from the wishing game! Here's in his 20's and in his 30's and also little Lucy❤

It was an awesome book, 100% i recomend.

5⭐

The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer

I finished this yesterday and I need to share. I am a very easy to please person when it comes to media, I'm in it to enjoy something not to criticize it. But I think this earns a genuine 10 out of 10; a total 5 stars.

Main Plot: it's said from the very beginning that this is inspired by the Narnia series. This is; what happens after we return home from the magical lands? Two boys go missing in the woods for six months and return miraculously healthy. Years later, a woman asks these boys for help locating her sister who got lost in those same woods.

What you will find ~ fun mix of fantasy/real world, a dash of magic, unicorns, red crows, m/m romance (2 bi male characters) + implied aro/ace female character, 'you can't save them all, but today I save one'

Best Girl: Aurora, the Red Crow (animal companions always have my heart) Best Boy: Fritz, the rat. Just a normal rat. But he is there and he is a legend. The love of my life: all my love goes to Emilie. She loves pink, she's probably aro/ace (wants family over romance and Queen here is your crown 👑), she's an amazing wingwoman, and wants to boop death in the nose. Queerness: 10 out of 10; I have harped enough at this point, very sweet romance in a YA fashion, fade to black scenes. Themes: 12 out of 12. This novel explores some pretty deep, mature themes and the author handles them with grace and gentleness. I love that things were discussed but not exacerbated or fixated on; this trauma is a part of your life, but it's not all that you are, kind of way.

Potential Squicks/Triggers: - This is a novel set largely in the real world and all that entails, despite the magical themes. - One of the characters finds missing girls and women; certain things are alluded to like kidnapping, sexual assault, murder. - Additional mentions of drugs, taking drugs during pregnancy, domestic violence, childhood trauma and abuse, homophobia

Spoilers, will give more details on the above for those who would like more info:

The Lost Story, Meg Shaffer

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Inspired by C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobes--just in case--from the author of The Wishing Game.

"This is the book you've been waiting for."--Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls and the North Bath Trilogy

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell went missing in a vast West Virginia state forest, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where they'd gone or how they'd survived.

Fifteen years after their miraculous homecoming, Rafe is a reclusive artist who still bears scars inside and out but has no memory of what happened during those months. Meanwhile, Jeremy has become a famed missing persons' investigator. With his uncanny abilities, he is the one person who can help vet tech Emilie Wendell find her sister, who vanished in the very same forest as Rafe and Jeremy.

Jeremy alone knows the fantastical truth about the disappearances, for while the rest of the world was searching for them, the two missing boys were in a magical realm filled with impossible beauty and terrible danger. He believes it is there that they will find Emilie's sister. However, Jeremy has kept Rafe in the dark since their return for his own inscrutable reasons. But the time for burying secrets comes to an end as the quest for Emilie's sister begins. The former lost boys must confront their shared past, no matter how traumatic the memories.

Alongside the headstrong Emilie, Rafe and Jeremy must return to the enchanted world they called home for six months--for only then can they get back everything and everyone they've lost.

1. ⁠The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer

2. ⁠Stupid Dirty by Erin Russell

3. ⁠You’re My Home by Katie Moore

4. ⁠Him by Sarina Bowen

5. ⁠Red Flags & Tuesdays by Nordika Night

There will likely be more because I am addicted!