Hmmm...I think I'm the second dissenter. Maybe I'm too much into dark things as of late, but I was disappointed with the ending of this one. Everything else I loved--the reader was full of cheerfulness, even during the hard times, and I loved the resourcefulness of the kids. But I kept waiting for something bad to happen--the story kept dropping hints, but never followed up. And the deus ex machina of the narrator conveniently having his 18th birthday right when the kids needed someone to run the orphanage was a bit hard to swallow. I would have accepted it more if the kids used him temporary to make another clockwork person--the already put so much work into making a clockwork Grinder--but the story just peters out. At least it was fun to listen to.