The book included so many elements I love: art photography... mysterious woods... hidden, possibly magical, objects... archaeology... Victorian fairy lore... collage...Yet somehow it managed to be pretty mediocre. It starts off well, with Ellwand's misty tree photos, which are really quite lovely an...
The big draw (and, really, highlight) of The Mystery of the Fool and the Vanisher will probably be the photographs, bring the reader through misty woods that look and feel haunted by... something. Here, it's fae that watch the woods. This is in the class of so many other faux-historical books that "...