“Everything here was perfect, except for me, and so they made me leave instead of changing enough to let me be perfect, too.”

I’d wondered if we’d ever get to see Kade’s world, and in this book we do. Beautiful and bittersweet, just like Kade. My heart breaks for him all over again. 

Vineta’s true colors came flying out in this one. Her flip from caring to cruel once Antsy was no longer useful to her was mind-boggling. (Tell me you lived with a narcissist parent without telling me you lived with a narcissistic parent. Right down to pitting the compliant and eager to please younger child against the one wise to the BS.) This one hit me just as hard as the last. Each story is more complex, more emotional than the last. Hurt people hurt people. But that’s not an excuse to keep hurting people. I love how Mislaid in Parts Half-Known ends, each of them a little older and a little wiser.