I love these books so much. This last book, though... This was more than we deserved and everything we needed. I wish I had the ability to buy classroom copies for every school in my state.

I live in Louisiana, where this book starts out. New Orleans is filled with so much history, and most of it is whitewashed. Seeing Tristan peel back the layers of history is phenomenal. And not just in NOLA. Tristan gets/gives history lessons throughout the book and in various places. History that is buried and hidden and deliberately ignored is unearthed and shared by this phenomenal book.

I'm already planning to reread the entirety of the series. It never disappoints me and regularly astounds me with how wonderful it is.

(Oh, fun fact, Gum Baby hints at some adventure that she won't explain - it's the short story included in The Cursed Carnival.)