It made me long for his earlier work. If you liked Marriage of sticks and the wooden sea you will probably love this. If, on the other hand, you believe as I do that Carroll wrote his best novels years ago with land of laughs, bones of the moon, after silence, etc. this will probably dissapoint you. I wanted to like it so bad, but by the middle I felt I had no desire to keep on reading it and returned the book. I hope it reaches you, reader, and that you may enjoy it much more than I possibly could.