Once Again to Zelda

Here's the thing about this book: it's a great concept, but the author does not deliver a great book.

First, the subtitle claims that the book will cover “literature's most intriguing dedications”, but what it really covers are generic dedications from some of literature's greatest authors. But that's not really the story either because often the book containing the dedication isn't even mentioned, leaving us with simply a four or five page biography of the author and dedicatee.

Second, the author's writing style starts off mediocre and devolves over the course of the book. Every single chapter uses a sick amount of foreshadowing, which is a crutch used by hack writers (it is also a personal peeve of mine). Toward the end of the book the author basically gives up and has the junior high student down the block finish writing the damn thing.