Review Detail of Hui_Wen_Teh in How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

Review take from Sifa Elizabeth Reads: HOW THE KING OF ELFHAME LEARNED TO HATE STORIES is a very pretty book, but that’s about it. A pretty spin off/collector’s item. This book is incredibly short – less than two hundred pages. And that’s two hundred pages of large font and lots of drawings. Every story is prefaced with at least 3 full pages of pictures, and lots of smaller drawings sprinkled among the text. There’s actually only 129 pages with text on them, of which about half have less than half a page of text on them. Why am I making such a thing of the set up? Because I was expecting a bit more in the book, given it’s weight (and also the list price. I am glad I borrowed it off a friend). The paper is very thick, which makes for an interesting reading experience. I guess it’s thick so it holds the illustration ink? I kept thinking I’d turned two pages by accident because the pages were so thick. My main feeling at the end of the book was that it was an absolute money spinner cashing in on the series’ popularity. I just hope a lot of the money goes to the illustrator, because that was the bulk of the book.