Avery was always a meticulous child who did everything that his parents and society could expect.
Zib was the opposite, the messy child who reveled in adventures and was anything but predictable.
They lived on the same street but yet had never met, until the day the detours along their paths to different schools had them both end up staring at a wall that hadn't been there before with no obvious path back home. So Zib argued that they should climb up and over the wall to see where it would lead them.
It lead them to another world with no visible way back to their own. So now these two strangers must rely upon each other to try and figure out the rules of this world and find their way home. Along the way they meet a girl made up of crows, various monarchs (none of whom seem to mean them anything good), many owls that come in many different colors, and others who help them find the Improbable Road with the hopes that their getting back home is so improbable that the road will have to help them back there.
A. Deborah Baker is a pen name of Seanan McGuire, and apparently a character in another McGuire book, Middlegame (still need to read that one). I liked the characters and found the story interesting but a bit disjointed (on purpose but still) and the ending, while I get that it's leading into the next book, just felt rushed and jarring. I love her work though so will likely pick up the second book and give that a try to see if my opinion of this series improves.
Page count: 204p/2,682p ytd/350,072p lifetime
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