I was really hoping that this book would be better than the first one, but sadly, I was wrong. In fact, I think it was worse than the first for a couple of reasons. 1) the characters used internet lingo like, "btw, blah blah blah" and "wtf, Mirie?" that's terrible form and should be kept out of novels (but, who are we kidding, these aren't real novels). And 2) the author's analogies just got worse. She used "curiouser and curiouser" and something along the lines of "She felt like she was in Oz with a dog whose name was that of a 70s/80s band" why not just say Toto? Better yet, why the reference to Oz at all? Which, by the way, was the second reference to Oz in these first two books. This book (and so far, this trilogy) is just bad. I will read the last one, and then hopefully the next free nook book I read won't be as terrible.