I'm not sure how I feel about this one. It's not the first book of the author's to feature trespassing - there is The Egypt Game, after all. But I think I sympathized more with those characters than I do Neely and Grub. The book builds slow, and the danger at the end is obvious to the reader before it is obvious to Neely. That can work, but it just felt off to me, for some reason.

Still, it wasn't a bad book and there's enough description that I wish, if nothing else, that the house and its contents, including the dollhouse, were real.

Will be leaving it behind in the room when we leave Anime Iowa 2019