Empty smiles katherine arden5/28/2023 With Phil kind of there and jealous about the friendship of the other three. Instead we follow Ollie, Brian, and Coco. So I think if anything this should have been Phil’s story. When a missing boy is found in water near them, it appears that The Smiling Man is setting up his final game for the kids to play. But Brian, Coco, and Phil, are at the ready to save Ollie when the chance comes. And back with Brian and Coco, all the adults believe that Ollie died. The Smiling Man keeps getting Ollie to agree to stay forever, but she wants to play the game with her friends getting a chance to save her. When they do get to a stop, a carnival sets up that has dark secrets of its own. She’s now on a train that never seems to stop with the Smiling Man and playing chess with him. It’s been a couple of months since Ollie did a deal with the Smiling Man and left her dad and friends. “Empty Smiles” is the fourth and last book in the Small Spaces quartet. I got to the 80 something mark and the remaining part of the book was excerpts from the first three books. Finally, the whole book was pretty short. We also didn’t get a lot of time with our trio of Ollie, Coco, and Brian together. I think the biggest issue is that Arden tried to rewrite The Smiling Man and based on the first book in the quartet it never squared.
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