Chaos indeed. I really enjoy Sarah Rees Brennan. She has written so many different kinds of books, and yet they are all well thought out and well crafted. I always get lost in the world. Much like Rae, who is actually lost in the world. Okay, she isn’t lost. She knows where she is, but she failed to get out of the book when she had the chance and now the narrative of the story is out of order. Rae tries to make the most of the situation. If she can get the story back on track. Make the Key the hero, she can get back home, but the thing the story wants what it wants, and the more she tries to change it, the more it fights back. I do love the exploration of Villain vs. Hero. Rae’s character is written to be a villain because she is seen to be promiscuous and manipulative, but the King in the previous book was just the same way, and he was considered a hero to many. Key has done some pretty inexcusable things, but he is also a man that poor and told his whole life he was bad and wouldn’t amount to anything, so is it really shocking that now he is living up to it? It goes deeper than that, but I hope you get the gist. The two books together are just a fun story of people trying to navigate complicated circumstances and trying to make it better. It’s well written, and the world-building is so on point. That even though I have never read the book she is lost in, I feel as though I have. And that ending! I do love a good cliffhanger, but damn girl. The game has really changed and sets up a pretty exciting finale.