This book is witty, charming, and clever. Letter after letter is removed from the beginning until the end. By the second-to-last chapter, only a few letters of the alphabet are permitted for the townspeople of Nollop to use.

While I was taken aback by Mark Dunn's clever handling of the English language, I was bored by the trivial plot within the book. The words he used were extravagant and borderline purple prose, which created wordy and unrealistic letters between friends.

Ella Minnow Pea is a brilliant idea, but it came across as gimmicky and even tiresome. I flipped through the book in an hour, unwilling to spend too much of my time studying a novel that contains next to no real story.