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I’m really late to this discussion, and for the most part I’d just second others’ answers. I’m somewhere between @corky and @taylorclogston when it comes to how connected the places in Dogwood felt. I pictured some connections between specific locations, but for the most part I didn’t have a strong sense of Dogwood’s real size or proportions. But the more I think about it, the more I wonder if that makes sense in the sections coming from 13 year old Matt. Some kids seem to have their bearings really well, but I for one had a pretty fuzzy sense of real distance or connections between places before I started driving.

Again, I really liked how many details there were that grounded me in the time and place. I wish more fantasy books included details that set readers at a specific point in the fictional world’s timeline, then showed us what the progression of that time looked like. Too many fantasy books give me a feeling of “a long time after the vaguely ancient stuff happened, this story took place.”