”You know, I read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland when I was a kid, and I never thought about what it would be like for Alice when she went back to where she’d started.”

Brilliantly conceived and fantastically executed. Premise, characters (the LGBTQ rep! Be still my heart), plot progression, setting — everything was developed enough to be immersive but not so much that you felt there was nothing left to discover: perfectly balanced world-building. I’ve always enjoyed stories where we’re thrown into what feels like the middle of the plot, if done well (which this definitely was), but this one in particular left me desperately wanting to know more about the parts we missed.

Nancy’s story is concluded satisfyingly enough here, but I can’t wait to dig deeper into the multitude of worlds contained in this universe.