Under the Whispering Door

I'm not going to lie. I went into this expecting the peaks of Cerulean Sea and got some middling lows.

This one drags as a whole but character development for the protagonist are super fast. The ending is also pretty obvious and a crappy deus ex machina. There's tension but it lasts all of 3ish chapters.

Mei is the best character. Nelson is close second. Wallace and Hugo make me want to roll my eyes in utter disbelief.

This is not the happy tearjerker it seemed to be in the first few chapters. Easily this could have been 50 - 100 pages less.

It's a shame but I just did not connect with the book in the way the characters of Cerulean Sea endeared themselves to me.