The Indigo King (Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica Series #3) Book

Similar to the second book, I found all the time travel stuff hard to follow (see my rant in that review) and also fairly unnecessary. The premise is that John and Jack's friend Hugo sends them a note from the past, even though he is a contemporary, then he walks through a door into a different time, disappears, and the world changes around them. They have to then travel back in time to find him, fix whatever it was he changed, and defeat an old enemy again. There is a lot of emphasis on multiple timelines and parallel worlds and I couldn't help wondering how that note from Hugo in the past made it to them in their original timeline, since he wrote it after he changed stuff and sent the world down a different timeline. Uh oh, I sense a rant coming... Also, two previous Caretakers who are both expert time travelers basically coordinate everything for John and Jack, yet in really obscure, far fetched ways, and I kept wondering why these time traveling experts just do it themselves because John and Jack clearly had no idea what to do and only got by on luck and the help of their badger friends.

This brings me to why I still gave it three stars despite the overall plot not making much sense or feeling necessary. Even though I couldn't keep track of the bigger picture very well, I did enjoy the individual scenes, and the interactions with the various characters. I liked Chaz and I loved the Badgers especially. They were so cute and funny. I enjoyed the book while I was reading it, it moved quickly and had some funny parts. At the end, there was a helpful conversation which summed up some of the main points and helped me remember what had actually happened and why. I appreciated that a lot. And I enjoyed the connection between real life events in the Caretakers' lives and in the book.