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This was delightful and unexpected. There are many recognizable tropes in here, but they aren't followed in a recognizable way. Kids don't learn their lessons, gruff adults don't magically become softer, and in the end when you think it's all going to end on a predictable note (view spoiler)[there's a housefire that destroys precious books! (hide spoiler)] (if you don't want to read the spoiler, the gist is that it didn't end predictably, at least to me, at all).

I laughed a lot while reading this and found these children incorrigible in the best kind of way. They are infuriating and hilarious in equal measure, and I kept sharing little vignettes with my SO while reading. I was sold on this book when a friend's review called it a Penderwick-like story for Anglophiles, and that is definitely an accurate description, but this does have more bite than the Penderwicks. Everyone is a little less kind and good, but they are all very entertaining.

I will absolutely be reading the rest of the series.