This was such an interesting read! I thoroughly enjoyed it! The book was funny, engaging, heart-breaking; everything that makes an all-round great novel. It was written really well and was super engaging. I often found myself not realising how long a chapter was because I was so into it! I did notice, though, that the chapters were longer at the beginning compared to the end of the novel. I'm not sure whether this was intentional or not, but it was super effective either way. There was a natural tension as you read the book because you're waiting for a conclusion and want to know what will happen to the characters, but the fact that the chapters slowly became shorter as you progressed through the book sped up the narrative and created more tension in a really effective way.

(Side note: I freaking love that there was a graphic at the beginning of each chapter showing which cars of the train the characters were in.)

With the book being very plot driven, it was so cool to see how in-depth the characters were throughout. I never knew what was going to happen because the characters were so unpredictable, which made for such a fun reading experience. Nanao and the Prince, specifically, were really fun to follow as they were both insanely smart characters, and I could not predict where their minds went or what they were going to do. They were such a good juxtaposition as well, because Nanao was a lightning-quick thinker whereas the Prince considered every possible thing before doing anything. However, when it came of Lemon and Tangerine - the classic duo - it was much more plausible that Lemon liked Thomas and Friends compared to Tangerine liking literature. Tangerine's references were usually quite vague, but also his character wasn't as open or didn't talk as much as Lemon, so maybe that is why.

Another thing I liked was that lot of the characters would say similar, or even exactly the same, things! Two different people, for instance, said "it's just like riding a bike, your body knows what to do" about 'the business' and getting back into it. Things like this happened a few times and it was so interesting to see how people who are almost the antithesis to each other (and each other's jobs) think in a similar way due to their line of work.

One thing I wasn't a huge fan of, though, was the Morning Glory chapters... They threw me off because of the odd writing choices to make them completely different from the rest of the novel. Notably, the standard dialogue punctuation rules were basically obliterated. When it came to any dialogue there was nothing to distinguish it from the rest of the text - e.g. speech marks or even italics. The dialogue was written like a regular sentence with a comma at the end and a "morning glory replied", which was so weird to read! This was the only part that took me out of my reading flow.

*This last paragraph may contain spoilers, so read at your own risk*

The end was so cute! I loved that they changed his name to Ladybeetle in the final chapter because his luck changed! It was such a small but crazily effective details to include. Also, I really liked that the prize of the giveaway was a box of lemons and tangerines. His final line felt like pride for those two characters he has to leave behind, almost like they were saying 'see, told you we would be back'.