I liked this instalment a lot - this book, like the last one in the series, focuses on a character that has had a really hard life, and meets people who want to help and uplift him instead of abuse and use him. Seeing Pip learn to trust his new friends and himself is really lovely.

I do think the ending was VERY abrupt, though, which is why I'm giving this one 4 stars. It's not a romance book, but Pip has a crush on Bertie for the whole of the book, and the ending kind of suggests something happening between the two of them, but it literally happens in the last 7 minutes of the audiobook. I wish this book had an extra hour of runtime to really explore whatever the two of them have going on, whether it's romantic or platonic - I don't mind either way! Or even if the book left out those last 7 minutes too, that would have worked fine too. But as it was the book ended and I just went, HUH?