#manifoldworlds

If the first book made me so deliriously happy that I had to bury my face in a pillow and scream out all my feels, this book...well, this book ripped by heart out and danced all over it. And I don't mean that in a fannish way; I mean that in the way that something reaches right into you and pulls out some very painful issues that go so long into the past and go so deep that the surfacing of those issues is like emotional surgery without anaesthesia. But, like surgery, it's painful but necessary, and I am so very, very glad this book did just that. It's like Kafka said: sometimes you need a book that hurts you, that is "an axe to break the frozen sea", and this is what this book was for me. I just hope there's a sequel though, because there were so many plot threads that didn't get answers, and I'd love it if those got wrapped up. (Also I'd love to go back to these worlds and read about these characters again.)