The Seed Collectors

Family as a cross-pollination experiment. Thomas is great at moving you from one sentence to the next (I went through this one in two days flat), but the bigger story here falls a bit flat, circling round an unsatisfactorily explained void, both in the family at the books heart and the plot. It's very entertaining, with some smart characterisation, and may benefit from a reread, but right now I feel a little disappointed with it. Props for the robin, though. He's aces.