As I opened up the book, and entered this fantasy realm, it felt as if I was eating Cotton Candy, I read page after page, after page, and there were details after details, and as the story unfolded, I found no substance in the book. There were lots of flowery descriptive words that said nothing. There was no depth to any of the characters and every time there was an idea or an entity that seemed ready and able to grab your attention, it was glossed over in just a few sentences and was gone.

The story was well written in the sense that there was a limited time frame and sense of running out of time was done well. I felt as if I was being pushed through the entire book at a breakneck pace. Unfortunately this was at the cost of my buying into the characters and the situation that they found themselves in. I might have found this an acceptable work if I was 12, but not as an adult piece of fiction and that is the target audience that was who Magic Kingdom For Sale, Sold, was written for. This fact was evidenced in some of the more adults themes that the characters dealt with.

I have never been a big fan of Terry Brooks, and to be honest I have never read a lot of his work but this book just left me feeling empty and like I wasted my time and energy in reading the story.