I got the sequel to this one over Christmas but it's been a couple of years so a re-read was in order. It's the first of a second trilogy in the Peculiar series. I remember being kind of hard on this book when I first read it. I was still reeling from the emotional rollercoaster ride of the series I'd finished prior to reading it, so it just wasn't sitting right with me. It's crazy how books can effect you like that.. 😄. But after reading it again I can see how well planned it was this time around. There are still a couple of tedious moments of America bashing for a plot point. (A plot point with holes because sometimes it's more important to prove you're cool by being lazy than to make sense... so tiresome...) But overall it's not the copy of other hidden world fantasies that I remember it being. It's not over dramatic... that was my own emotional state, lol. And and all of the elements that built up to the end were not as slow as I recalled either. The world needed to be tweaked, reconstructed and expanded in more detail in order to move forward from the original premise. I'd also completely forgotten the ending so I would've been lost if I'd just started the sequel.
Lesson here: there's always an advantage to re-reading.
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