Just as compelling on the re-read! What I lived about this book the first time was how well the author plops you down in a world with so much you don't know and keeps the mystery alive the entire time. As you figure out who Meg and the Others are, you discover knew unknowns to puzzle over along with the characters. And the characters are so great.

The only thing I did not love was the prologue. The language really makes it sound like we're talking about our own Earth under slightly different names and comparing Native Americans to the terra indigene. And while the terra indigene are incredibly powerful and I don't think it ends up actually being problematic, that prologue really seems like Native Americans are being paralleled as beasts and predators, which is obviously not cool.