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I'm a bit on the fence about this one. I've given it 3 because I liked Adam's story, but overall it felt disconnected to me. (Broken down- Adams story 3.5/4, faun story maybe 2, closer to 1.5) It took me a few chapters to get into, mainly because I was confused about the faun/Queen storyline. When I did get really into the book, it was because I liked Adam's story. I wanted him to let go of Enzo and let Linus in, I wanted his storyline with his family to go somewhere, I wanted to spend time with Angela. I also wanted to know where the strange, kinda trance-like faun storyline was going to connect with Adams. But it let me down where I continued to be confused by the queen storyline and just wasn't into that mystical element at all. Every chapter of it was like an interruption of the story I wanted to hear, Adam's story. I think Ness was trying to add something otherworldy, and deep, and symbolic. But the whole meth-murder-ghost-girl thing, and the Queen, and the faun- I was overall just a bit lost and it felt really unnecessary to me, I didn't feel like it added to Adam's story at all. I don't think the two storylines worked well together, and I wish those pages had been filled with more of Adam's story, or that the point had been a bit clearer and hadn't taken so long to get there. Because all I got was that Adam and the Queen/ghost character both had to let things go, and that didn't feel like a good enough reason to make such a weird, disconnected stylistic choice. Adam's story was so grounded in reality and real problems and emotions, so the mystical otherworldy storyline just didn't mesh for me because it wasn't executed well or connected enough. I almost understand what the intention was, but I don't think it worked, at least not for me.