This was a delightfully fun book and I recommend it to everyone who enjoys fiction. The story is encaptivating and real without being gory or excessive (I'm looking at you GoT.) I believe this is a YA book, but I didn't think it came off the way many of those books do, like they're trying too hard. The story doesn't need too much world-building, so it doesn't get bogged down in explanation. The author introduces the information in an organic way that, once it becomes necessary, flows easily. I've read many books where the animals speak for various reasons and this is my favorite depiction. The MC sort of adds in the grammar in a way that reads like translation, which would be the only way to document what a goose honks at you, or the like. Overall, this is just a very well written book.
