There is little doubt that Justina is walking a fine line with the Quantum Gravity series. The idea is that it should be a lot of fun and appeal to people who want nothing more than that from a book, but at the same time Justina can’t stop writing like Justina. There were times in Going Under that I was worried she might be losing the casual reader. But then again, there were times when she might be losing the literary reader as well (always assuming that such people can get past the covers).

I think at the moment she’s still got it right, though some fans may be upset with some of the things that happen in this book (she killed off my favorite character!). I’ll certainly keep reading the series, and I hope that it is doing well. One thing that might help is that I realized half way through Going Under that Quantum Gravity is just crying out to be a comic. It is marvelously visual – especially all of the fairy stuff in this book. The only real problem is that the timeline is so tight that you’d either be stuck doing an adaption or you’d have to deviate from the novel plot, but comics have done that before. Someone should arrange for it to happen. (Hint, hint.)