Last year I started reading *Sundial* and, for some reason, I never finished it. It wasn't that I thought it was bad, it was just that I was still coming out of my reading slump and I guess simply wasn't in the mood for that book at that time. After reading *Looking Glass Sound* I fully intend to fix that.

This was fantastic. It's a very well-executed metafiction that kept my guessing - and hooked - right up until the last moments. Even the slight silliness of characters being trapped inside the book that we're currently reading that shows up at the end didn't feel silly in context, and it's very hard to get me to buy in to that kind of thing. In a lot of ways this reminded me of Ian McEwan's *Atonement* (though the two books are obviously not at all similar), and I felt a very real connection to the characters.

Easily one of my favourite reads of the year so far.