At first I didn't like this as much as The Girl from the Well because I thought the highlight of that book was being in the perspective of the ghost/spirit, and in this book we're locked into Tark the human teenager's perspective instead. I am, however, always hungry for monster/human loving relationships and I really enjoyed the friendship and devotion between Tark and Okiku. I long for more supernatural stories with relationships like theirs. The plotting also felt a bit more consistent than the previous book, without as many diversions from the main threads of the story. 

The audiobook narrator did well, he was able to mimic the little sanity slips in a way that felt consistent with the previous audiobook that had a female narrator.