A Portrait of Wendy Darling

I read this without reading the first book in the series but don’t feel like it was required reading as everything you need to know for this one is included.

An enjoyable adventure through a parallel Lovecraftian steampunk universe with a good cast of interesting characters.

My only gripes are the seeming obsession with including exotic words that need their meanings looking up and the lack of a good proofreader in my kindle edition which spoils the narrative when words are missing, repeated or just plain wrong.

All in all this was a good adventure / horror story which kept my interest until the very end ( )

Fun protagonists in a steampunk alternate history Earth with parallel worlds, were all/most folktales, fairy tales, etc... or at least those from several sources currently popular in western culture, are simultaneously true.

The reference to H.P. Lovecraft and the use of a "Cthulhu" monster, while they sort of work as used within this story, will probably be of little interest to lovers of the extended Cthulhu-verse with no love for a much lighter tone almost entirely lacking in cosmic horror. ( )