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As a stand-alone read, there is little confusion in setting us up - we might furrow our brows about some of the details we find, but the mystery and action both launch with great pace. I'm not too sure there was much with the magic I expect to deserve a book five stars, however, but the descriptions and drama are done with compelling skill by our authoress, and it could have been worse than it is. Too often I see books such as these with the mystery clue only leading to a red herring - this has enough hardware, enough intrigue, enough emotionally pulling hooks that we don't need those, and instead only speed through the whole series.

Underneath the lemony yellow sleeve of this volume is what looks a blandly white volume, but beyond the packaging gimmicks, the blog style narration and non-right-justified text, there is enough already to make the book distinctive. Add kudos and marks to my Bookbag rating if you remember all the secrets, energetic plotting and craft of the first book and want more. I want more, too - just working forwards, not back.

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