4.0

The Laphams are back and they are delivering! He's gone back to the book's original cast, digging deeper into the history of Beth, Orson and the gang before Somewhere Out West - which has a lot of positives (more insight into the characters, more background into what drove Beth, Nina, and Orson to run) and maybe a few (small) negatives, such as we know where most of these characters end up and we're missing the depth of the first series' brilliant character pieces spotlighting ancillary players. But I'm enjoying the ride and look forward to seeing what wrinkles come up in subsequent volumes.