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This book is about Bily and Zluty, hatched from the same egg, but quite different from each other. Zluty is the adventurer and wanderer, while timid Bily tends to the house and garden. The appearance of the red wind threatens to change their happy little life. Bily and Zluty are quite lovable characters (looking much like a miniature Max from "Where the Wild Things Are). The pictures are also essential to the storyline, giving the reader a feeling that we knew something the characters didn't. I imagined a bigger story building about their different lifestyles that never really eventuated, maybe that is in the next book. I usually read a series only when it is complete, so that I don't have to wait an entire year to reach a resolution for the characters. This book felt like a big chapter rather than a stand alone book to me, just as their journey begins, the book is done. Then again maybe that's the idea because now I am waiting for the next two books to find out what happens. This was my first time to read an Isobelle Carmody book, and I will definitely be reading another, but this time I will choose one from a series she has already finished.

2022-10-04 09:46