First and foremost, this book won't make much sense if you haven't read the earlier one in the series. The premise of the story is interesting, if a bit ridiculous, but sometimes it feels like the author is trying just a little too hard to make it dark and dramatic. I give it 3 stars because of the well-written suspense - it was impossible to put this book down - but it has a disappointing ending, so that spoils it for me. In addition, I hate it when an author strings the reader along for book after book without providing any answers. I don't mean to spoil anything here, but the premise is that a boy suddenly finds himself shrunk down to the size of an insect, and he meets others in that condition, and they struggle to survive. In this book the boy has been mysteriously returned to his former size and now seeks to rescue a girl he left behind. However, the author never explains how or why this has happened, which become increasingly frustrating. I'm sure more books will follow, but I'm not sure I'll be reading them.
Robert has returned to his normal-sized body, leaving tiny Lorn and the others in the Lilliputian group to huddle against the dangerously growing cold. Robert, his sister Emma and his best friend Tom try to find the full-sized Lorn, but discover her imprisoned underground and horribly abused by her father. Meanwhile, Lorn is drawn deeper and deeper underground. Is she being drawn towards safety or is it more sinister? Can Robert rescue and reunite Lorn with her full-sized body in time? Many threads are left for the final volume to explain.
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Spoilers!!!>......I liked this one better than the first. There was so much more excitment and adventure. I was very upset with Lorn's situation. Child abuse is sick and I can't believe her father is so cruel. People are disgusting. I was glad they saved her, but they didn't reunite her. I was a little disappionted by that. I didn't really like Tom at first. He was stupid and navie about everything. This book still doesn't make sense because Cross never explains what is really going on. Cross doesn't tell why it's happening to these kids or who did it to them. I'm still lost and it better give all the details in the next book. Otherwise this series is completely pointless.
—Reeva
The trilogy takes a whole new twist! Robert goes back to being big. Works with his sister Emma and eventually his best friend Tom to help the small ones. He believes the answer lies in Lorn, finding her big self and connecting them. What he finds is just crazy. Lorn was the only one who couldn't remember her previous life, all the other smalls could. We discover why her subconscious was blocking it out; it was too horrible to remember. She is better as a small. If her big and small reconnect, which will she become?
—Amy
