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This was a lovely, interesting, engaging book. It was rammed with Narnia references that you simply wouldn't have noticed if you happened not to be familiar with Narnia, but which were huge fun if you were. Piranesi himself was likeable, and I rooted for him from the start, even as he started to understand that he hadn't always been a person he could like.

But so many world-building questions were left completely unanswered!

I went into this book knowing it was a racist book, written in a racist time, about an even more racist time, but good gracious! It's so very racist.

The casual, comfortable racism of the first half is nothing, compared to the shrill, bitter racism of the second half.

It's a good yarn, but I keep putting it down, and putting off picking it up again. I don't always read this slowly.