I put off reading this series for quite literally years, because the blurb was so promising that if it had been bad I would have been devastated. I finally bit the bullet this week, and this is everything I wanted and more, like a Miss Peregrine meets Narnia meets House Of Hollow mash up, and I wanted the book to be longer before I'd even finished the first chapter.

I felt this story introduced us to the house and the characters who had found themselves there really well, explaining the different worlds they had found themselves in before ending up back on earth in a way I understood easily. And this kept the pace up and my attention by brutally killing off multiple characters by the end of the story.

I did guess the culprit, but solving the mystery didn't feel as important as getting the reader to know the characters. I loved all of them, and the final pages had me wondering what on earth was happening next and where this story was going to go. I'm not reading the blurbs too far ahead, but now I've read the blurb for book 2, I love the choice of POV switch.