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This didn't quite go exactly how I expected it. I'm not quite sure that the ending makes that much sense.

I'd try something by Breakwell again, but I wouldn't go through the whole book if it was too much like this.

Not bad, not great.

Edit to add that one thing that bugged me right to the end was the number of characters. Pair that with their names (alpha, beta, gamma, etc.) that gave no indication of gender, and I really struggled to tell them apart besides like Delta and Epsilon. Also, I listened to the audiobook, and the narrator did a bad job at a couple of sentences. The way some of them came out were like:

Ok then said, Gamma gently

rather than

Ok then, said Gamma gently

Not massive, but it took me out of the moment on more than one occasion.

Trying to finish this off before I forget everything about it. I started reading this in Hawaii just over a year ago, and then I had to return the book to the library unfinished because they wouldn't let me renew it. Now I'm listening to the audiobook version instead.

There was a big patch in the middle of the book where literally every single imaginable thing went wrong. It got a little overwhelming for a while, but I'm glad that I persisted, because the ending is good.

I wish I'd read this when it came out instead of waiting so long.

I started listening to the audiobook recently. It's 35 hours long, and that's only book 1.

I'm enjoying the production so far. It reminds me slightly of The Sandman audiobooks.

I have to be honest, I'm a bit fed up of everything going wrong. It feels like it's been disaster after disaster for like 100 pages. I really think there should be a little bit more good stuff happening to stop this from just being too much.

I struggled to get into this one as much as the other two in the series. Toward the end things came together nicely though. I hope there are more books in this series in the future, but I wouldn't be too surprised if this is it.

Yikes, Beth is pretty damn harsh to Ed. I wonder what's going to happen.

Finished this on the plane on the way home from England. I love the two stories that I've read so far in this series, and I almost started the third one right away, but I was too close to landing to get far into it, so I'll save it for another day.

I guess I'll give any Tchaikovsky book a read based on these.

@swinstead That's me!

@swinstead If he reads the audiobook version I'll give this a listen!

@swinstead I listened to the audiobook version of this on a road trip to North Dakota in the early 2000s using an iPod with one of those little FM transmitters on top so we could tune the car radio to the frequency it broadcasts on. Absolutely brilliant book!

I'm listening to the audiobook version of this while I shovel wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow of woodchips off my driveway and into the garden.

I loved the first book in the series, and the first 5 chapters of this one have been great, setting the scene that's all to familiar, but in new and interesting ways.

I read the first book in this series a million years ago, and kept waiting for this to be available digitally. I contacted the author by email to ask about it a long time ago, and he said it wasn't likely. So I bought a copy on eBay and took it on the camping trip I just went on with my son.

I'm struggling to remember what happened in the first book, so I'm going to find a recap online and then try to get on with this one! I'm enjoying it so far, although I'm only a few chapters in.