The Wayward Children series was such a delight for me, that I was caught off guard by how much I struggled to get through Middlegame, choosing to drop the series at the end of the first book. As this is short, and connected to Middlegame, I decided to pick it up anyway.

I grew to love the story by the end, but I constantly felt like I was missing any depth from the characters. This reads like Wonderland, or Narnia, but while the characters in those books were vivid and remarkable, Avery and Zib were just... flat.

Some of the story got confusing at points, and the science, or not science, behind how the impossible road worked got entirely muddled. However I did find myself thinking that the King Of Cups talked secy as hell, so there is that I guess.