Koli Faceless, Ursala-from-Elsewhere, and Cup were a strange combination of traveling partners, but they each had their reasons for being part of the group heading towards London. Koli wanted to find the city of London, which was from the before-times when tech used to be plentiful, and he hoped to find some tech there to heal people like those in his former village so they could all have healthy children. Ursala had no real hope of finding London, but the signal they had picked up from Sword of Albion intrigued her enough to head towards it, and that meant heading in the same direction. Cup was more of a prisoner than a traveling partner, but Ursala did not trust the feral girl, and nothing Koli said could convince Ursala to grant Cup her freedom. And don't forget about Monono, the virtual girl that lived inside the DreamSleeve, the old tech that Koli had wakened thus causing him to be expelled from his village. An odd bunch trying to survive and do some good in a hostile world that was trying to kill them in all manner of different ways.

Since Koli left the small village of Mythen Rood, the story has really opened up as more of the world is exposed, but it also makes you wonder what happened to Koli's village, and family, in the wake of his expulsion. There is no longer a need to wonder since Spinner is now a second PoV character who reveals the events going on back in Mythen Rood, and frankly they turn out to be just as interesting as those happening to Koli. Elevating former secondary characters to be a PoV character can be kind of hit or miss for many series, but in this case it works out really well. I am enjoying this story enough to be sad that this series is only a trilogy, which means I only have one book remaining.

In the audiobook version, Theo Solomon delivers another excellent performance for Koli's PoV and Saffron Coomber also does a decent job as Spinner. Due to the nature of the linguistic decay on display in the dialogue used in this series, listening is an excellent option. I'm certain that Theo does a better job with all the unique phrasing than any voice I would have created in my own mind.