Bruh that boy/man who chopped/used/reduced his giving tree to a goddamn STUMP is an underrated villain. What an asshole.

LORD OF THE RINGS like goddamn did I get fully sucked into Tolkien’s intense, emotional, epic adventure in 7th grade… I remember reading Fellowship at Thanksgiving dinner (cuz I couldn’t put it down even to stuff my face lmao)… my mom and dad were fine with it cuz they both adored LOTR too.

I burst into tears when Gandalf said, “Fly, you fools!” and was dragged to his death by the balrog. Like full on devastated sobbing.

Then Mom said with a twinkle in her eye, “Just keep reading.”

I also cried my ass off when I finished the last chapter of Return of the King, because I didn’t want the story to be over. I’m an avid lifelong reader; but nothing has ever topped that literary experience.

“Swiss Family Robinson” meets “A Series of Unfortunate Events” meets “Little House on the Prairie”

Each book is a lovely family shipwrecking/planecrashing onto a different island, each island with its own unique adversaries and challenges.

Yes, the family would have to be pretty dumb.

There’s a love triangle between the oldest daughter, the handsome pilot from the first planecrash, and the cannibal chief from the third island’s bold, charismatic son.