Y’all, the excitement I experienced waiting for this book—immeasurable! I needed to know more about what happened after The Afterlife Experiment (review found here).

Was Atra safe? How would Tom cope having previously abandoned Atra? Were these two actually the family member the other had or were one (or both) of them from a different reality?

Truthfully, In the House of Root and Rot posed more questions than answers. For the second book in a trilogy, I’m okay with that—I expected it. Atra’s dealing with a lot: a father who abandoned her, learning her brother had been dead a long time, and navigating life outside the psychiatric hospital while being presumed dead.

And that’s before she meets someone else who was affected by the same studies, whose own fucked up family history has warped their sense of reality and relationships. Or the other rival research group who is after them both.

Without giving too much away, the pace and tone of the second book in the Altered Planes trilogy remains consistent to the first, making them each an enjoyable rollercoaster that gut punches the reader with a mix of emotions ranging from amusement to fear and everything in between.

I can’t wait for the next instalment.