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Trying this again, yes the whimsy is still there but I'm more in the mood for it now than I was three years ago. Valente has some good ideas certainly, we'll see where this story takes them.

I could only take the whimsy so much. I had to put this down for a while. I want to read some good middle grade but I'm not in the mood for frivously clever flights of fancy with whimsical nonsense for the sake of being whimsical. Perhaps I'll pick it up again. I don't know, this is how it is with EVERY Valente book I've ever tried.

The whimsy is starting to get carried away and I'm reaching the same point I always do with Valente. She definitely has her own creative and unique style. However the problem is what was once a novelty becomes a bit too much. I'm going to finish this because I am invested in the main character September, whose a bit prickly and I love me some Prickly heroines.

There's only so much whimsy some readers can take and unlike China Miellville who seemed to think that with his foray into childrens lit he needed to whimsy his readers into a coma, Valente seems to just want to tell a story, which I appreciate highly. So far so good.