This was overwhelmingly disappointing. I've enjoyed many of Pierce's other books, but I don't know if I'll continue with this series. I barely made it to the end of this book and I'm not entirely convinced that it was worth sticking it out.

I'm usually extremely liberal about what I would consider appropriate content for a children's book, but some things in this book (see content warnings below) crossed the line even for me (I didn't actually even realize I had a line that could be crossed here, and...now I know that I do :-/ )

content warning: rape references (in the context of an event that someone remembers from the past), graphic violence/murder