"Wicked", "Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister", and "Mirror Mirror" were all decent books, but "Lost" is just plain God Awful. It failed to keep my interest constantly. It was a fight to get through this book (I don't know why I even bothered to finish it.) The whole story line was just a hodge podge of ideas thrown together. The story of the book within the book (about Jack the Ripper) must have been added to fill a few more pages as it was a pointless waste of time. Although I enjoyed the first three books from Maguire, I doubt I would waste my time and money of a fifth book, seeing that the fourth book "Lost" was so incredibly BAD.