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** spoiler alert ** I am still thinking about this book weeks after I read it. The author pulls the reader into the story right away and it is hard not to care about the boy or to wonder who he belongs to. And it does not take too long for the "good God fearing" people who find him asleep on a pew in the church and want to help him. Thus one of the first of many smiling to myself moments. They decide to name him Pew because they apparently couldn't think of a normal boy name, and this is where he was found, after all.

So one of the first things is to get him to talk and tell where he is from and this is another one of those moments in the book that is almost LOL. So when they take on the challenge and no matter what their expertise, he ends up listening to a myriad of confessions, if you will, because they are uncomfortable with the silence. They literally blab on caught in the bliss of their own voices. Why no one has listened to them this long without interruption.

What I love most about the author is the cleverness of making the reader's mind go in all directions. When the town is planning their special ceremony, my mind conjured something similar to the Purge series. No cigar! Plot went in a different scary way, another crazy surprise by Ms. Lacey. Also she does not tie everything up in a neat bow with a clever in your face ending. So the reader is left with the Pew that our individual story in our mind sees. So is he an angel or a person from
a parallel dimension? Or is he actually an alien from a far more advanced planet? Or could he just have amnesia? But for me, that is just too simple, so not buying that one.