The Wayward Children series is one of my favourites - I was very glad to have been granted a copy of this book.

The writing and the worldbuilding was as touching and all consuming as it always is with Seanan McGuire's books. The universe of the series is well structured: there are rules that make sense and links between the books (I really enjoyed the teeny-tiny cameo of my favourite character). The writing, the effect of it is...difficult to describe, but I will try. Imagine you are playing dodgeball, and you're the last one left, right? Now, imagine dodging a ball: the feeling of relief, the adrenaline, the tiny celebratory feeling. Now, imagine that immediately upon turning around from successfully dodging you get hit in the face. That is the emotional equivalent of reading McGuire's writing.

Antsy was fine, she is not my favourite lead as I prefer the more gray ones. Antsy did have very understandable reactions to everything. This specific world is not my favourite either, but we get to find out more about the general structure of everything here so it balances out. 

Overall, not my favourite in the series, but it's definitely not bad at all!