Whew, what a cool and captivating book. It was nice to read a fully contained story from McGuire, but make no mistake, the scope is sweeping and the stakes are high. How could they not be when a pair of siblings are learning how to manipulate time?

There’s a lot of heartbreak in this book, running parallel to the need to keep going in the face of it. Roger and Dodger have to learn to embrace that need rather than resist it, and it’s fascinating watching them evolve and learn about themsel...