The villains from the stories didn't play that big of a role. I personally found the witches to be more intimidating than The Masked Man. The villain's for this book were as usual well done. The audience also discovers the identity of The Masked Man's son. I'm not sure what they are like in the original stories but this is what they are like in this book. Peter had this thing for imitating Conner and Robbin Hood had a pretty large ego and yelled rather than speaking. When I read about Robin Hood and Peter Pan I was pretty annoyed with them. But whatever the case is she seems really happy and she did mention that whenever the twins need her she would come. I was pretty surprised that Mother Goose chose to stay in Camelot with Merlin. Maybe she will, we'll just have to wait and see. I can actually see both couples working out but it's really weird considering that I was hoping that Alex would get back with Rook. Alex's thing with King Arthur was unexpected along with Mother Goose and Merlin. Bree and Emmerich's point of views come in this book. Conner used his magic for the first time without Alex. It was very interesting to read about their adventures traveling into different books! I especially liked how Red was nominated to become the Lost Boy's mother. This is all that happens in the first chapter. She finds that her son wants to overthrow her, become the next god-mother and cause destruction and mayhem. She decides that the best way to please her son is to go into the hall of dreams and find out what it is that Lloyd desires. Upon presenting it to him her heart sinks when he says that he has no interest in the potion whatsoever. Through this interaction the Fairy-godmother decides to make a potion that will allow Lloyd to travel into his favorite books. The brothers happen to look exactly like their father so that's why Alex thought it was her father.

They are not twins but instead a few years apart (it's not specified how many). Through their interaction the audience finds out that The Masked Man is in fact her other son Lloyd. The book starts off with the late Fairy-godmother meeting with Hans Christian Anderson. This book was absolutely wonderful! As usual it was written beautifully and had an amazing plot to boast.

Beyond the kingdoms by chris colfer