And right off in chapter one of Slippery Creatures I remember the KJ Charles article about setting character in the prose with like... Will thinking about how the books are out to get him

And how it immediately puts Will in an adversarial relationship with the environment

But also that he personifies the environment, cause he tells the books that William Darling (his uncle) is gone

I'm extremely fond of the little "telling the books his uncle is gone" moment