I have a feeling I'll enjoy this one even more on reread.

I love Catherynne M. Valente so much. Her works are whimsical and dense and imaginative and full of vibrant places and beautiful characters. OSMO is all of those things.

I will say that I found this one to have the same ingredients as THE FAIRYLAND SERIES, but with a plot that was a little more wandering and less defined. For that reason, I find that if FAIRYLAND was right on the edge of the whimsy you can withstand, this might be just over the edge? We are still getting from point A to point B in both, but there was something sort of nebulous about the journey in OSMO.

It also started a little slow. It took a while to start the journey and assemble the companions. It was about 40% of the way through that things really came together for me and that I also realized that I loved the characters.

I think the best way to describe this is "a young boy goes on a coming of age journey along with grumpiness and loneliness." And it was excellent.