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The Unwritten, Vol. 1 by Mike Carey5/27/2023 ![]() It is like Mike Carey wants to say, “I love literature and I know that you do too!” If fiction is going to be meta, it should be meta exactly like this. There is one scene that is set at the Globe, the Globe that I love, you don’t even know and words cannot express how much I love the Globe Theatre. ![]() His father was always telling him stories about the places in England and how they connect to books and authors – this plays into the unfolding of the plot and will, I expect, do so more and more as the series goes on. The Unwritten is set in London, a place with whose literary history Tom is very familiar. At first it is theorized that he is a fraud, the son of Romanian peasants then people begin to believe that he is, in fact, Tommy Taylor, brought into existence by the stories themselves. ![]() ![]() However, it turns out that all the paperwork proving Tom is his father’s son has been forged. The Unwritten is about a guy called Tom whose father – long since disappeared without a trace – wrote an incredibly popular series of books about a character with Tom’s same name: Tommy Taylor. ![]()
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