A simple way to wrap up this story is it will warm your soul. It’s one of those wholesome, lovely book about books that book people will curl up in a chair and melt over. (At least that is how I reacted.)
     As everyone mentions, this is a Willy Wonka inspired novel and Meg did an excellent job of recreating something someone who loves Willy Wonka and loves books can adore. It has all the cheesiness and good vibes I was hoping for when I picked up this story. 

Although I’m sure the author was intending to make this as wholesome and wonderful as possible… sometimes the naive thoughts of the MC Lucy got on my nerves. On top of it, the backstory was … boring? Unnecessary? Not convincing? My advice were to be to chop out the first couple chapters. I didn’t need them to feel the feels. The backstory of her parents not loving her, not talking to Angie (like it was her sister’s fault) and her lack of logic on how to be able to adopt Christopher were frustrating. It made me ‘not’ like Lucy, a character I should have been rooting for.
      The riddles were an excellent touch and well thought out. I like the reader gets a chance to solve the riddle before the answer is revealed. The ‘challenges’ could have been more and more exciting. Author could have made a few more adventures and the readers would have loved them. A bit of a miss of opportunity there.
     Overall, a few nit picky things that hold the book back from being wonderful. When it comes to YA, I could see this being a 5 star book. For everyone else, 4 stars.