Last Exit

So Last Exit is not in any way related to the Craft novels. It is instead a real-world fantasy that reminds me of Jo Walton and N.K. Jemisin. The Jo Walton comparison is straightforward: She wrote a story, "Relentlessly Mundane," about a group of kids who went through a portal to save a fantasy world, losing one of their number along the way, and who now are regular ol' mundane adults talking…