Turns out the villain of this series was capitalism all along

(...not a joke)



Surprise! Relevant pandemic feels! I read the first three books in this series like a billion times as a kid but the fourth one took so long for it to come out that I never managed to go farther. Trying out the audiobooks now and really enjoying them. Narrator does a great job, the aesthetics are not at all typical of the genre which is really cool, and it deals with a lot of neat and relatable character things (being adopted! pandemics! asthma & disability! capitalism & bureaucracy!!!!) in a really chill way.