Vassa in the night is absurd. Magnificentely absurd. 
 Retelling of the russinf fable Vassilissa the Beatiful, it's one of the most surreal book I have ever read. It's set in a Brooklyn where night arrives always early and stay more then what it should. Nobody seems to notice or to give importance to it. And there's Babs Yagg's shop. A wobbling shop on chicken legs. Just beacuse this is obiviously not enough, Babs has the bad habit to chops the head of her costumers and to display them. 
 Vassa story starts after a fight between her and one of her sibiling, a silly bet to go to Babs' shop and how Vassa is stuck inside the shop, betting is life and liberty. 
 Vassa in the Night is a book that just from the start is full of magic. Immediatly, only after having read few pages, the freak-crazy-surreal vibes hare already there. This book isn't only magical and strange, but also full of nosensical moments. They make their great part during the story but thinking about them as something away from the plot... well, my brain can melt. Your brain can melt too. 
 I shipped - even if there was nothing to ship - and I even cried a bit! Vassa and Erg - the coprotagonist talking doll - are really great characters and I was totally attached to them. I would love to another adventure featuring Vassa. 
 Anyway, even if this book was a great read... well, I need a little bit more of explenation nearly about everything. The magic, for example. In the story it looks like magic always existed and so people automatically accepted it, but it's not quite clear. 
 There are many things that make me hope for a sequel, maybe a series of standalone stories featuring Vassa or other guys that have and adventure with her. Also, I would love to see the hidden magic society that it's only a shade in Vassa in the Night. 
 Plus, Vassa and Babs' story are more tangled than what it seems. Past and present got mixed together, exploring the story of Vassa's mother and her godmother. Why not a prequel, eh, miss Porter?