I hate to do it, but I'm going to have to call this book a complete failure. I was with the story until the plane trip that landed the kids in Falling Bird. At that point, the story bounced around so much that it was impossible to follow and enjoy. I think it was possible to craft a story in this world that did not feel so disjointed, but for whatever reason, Choldenko chose to leave that reader in complete darkness, and just when you started to follow a thread, she would switch to one of the other narrators, and jump forward so much that you always felt like you were missing pages from the book. The ending did give me chills, but I believe she had this idea in her head with a great ending and was just in too big of a rush to get there that she left everyone else behind.