The Innocent Sleep

 The Innocent Sleep by Seanan McGuire, 368 pages.

This is, in a first for the series, a companion novel to Sleep No More from a few months ago. This time we follow the events from Tybalt's perspective, who is unaffected by the illusions wrapping their world and is having a worse time in many ways because of it. This is another book that I can't talk too much about the plot without major series spoilers, but the actual events of this book are pretty similar to Sleep No More, but with additional knowledge about the Undersea and where a few missing characters were.

Unfortunately I don't think this book worked quite as well as it's companion novel. I found Tybalt's voice to be stiff in a way that inhibited the action of the book, and overall less compelling than Toby as narrator. This book also suffers from a common issue of "the same story but from another perspective" books, in that it felt like overall Tybalt just didn't contribute that much to the plot. The big, world-ending consequences were pretty much on Toby (as usual) and Tybalt ended up left with more minor adventures. Sadly a slightly disappointing book.