his book is an all round wonderful and completely bonkers fairy tale. I want to see a animated movie from Pixar based off of it. I mean some of the vibes reminded me of UP sooo its meant to be.

At the start you think its a dystopian sci-fi sort of thing, but then the whole thing unravels even further and you fall down the rabbit hole. Following lovely heartfelt characters (Fogg deserves the world) you tumble through a tumultuous future earth. Where most of humanity has been wiped out and those that remain only survive through the use of Chitinous shields that protect them from the toxic dust that blankets earth. This is really a book thats told through stories, fairy tales, paintings and sculptures. I would definitely recommend looking up the pieces that are mentioned.

Overall I did feel like the book went on too long. There were too many twists and turns that it got to a point where I didn’t really have any sense of wonder at finding a new sanctuary or some other weird situation. A few sort of magical realism devices just seemed to be used too many times. I really enjoyed the first half of this book but after that I just went on too long and started to drag.