so, I love all of Klune’s work that I’d read before this, but honestly this wasnt great. found family is one of my favorite tropes, and there a lot of that here, but ox and joe’s relationship seems problematic and unhealthy to me. between the large age gap when they were both children, and joe not seeming to have any hobbies besides ox, and a bunch of other stuff. a lot of the writing was very repetitive and the ending anticlimactic and the rising action very sporadic.