This is the second book in the series and is a fantasy novel
for young adults and up.
Katelyn has returned to her seemingly normal life in Haven
and graduation day has arrived. The celebrations are disturbed by a man intent
on destroying the weather station and yelling about paperglass. This means that
Katelyn's hope of the outside world not interfering in her safe valley is
dashed. She is recruited as a field agent by Haven's Hall of Defense to go back
to the outside world and use her ability of the Pull to find a team that had
gone through earlier but have vanished. One of whom was Katelyn's real mother.
Ensnared in the war again, she is joined by old friends and new acquaintances
who become comrades. And as always, she adds many villains to her list of enemies.
Will she find paperglass in time to protect her valley from the dangers that
face it?
Book 2 started off a little slowly for me but picked up the
pace and added its importance to the story. I'm enjoying the way that the bits
making up the story are revealed and how they are combining to make cohesive
sense. As new abilities manifest
themselves we learn how they all work together as cogs in the machine. Kat and
Rune's story gets taken further but I'm hoping that more of Rune and Ruby's
stories will be explained. You can sense that they play more important roles so
hopefully more background will be offered later. I like how Kyle comes into his
own in this book and how assumptions about Dylan in the first book are proved
right and wrong. The historian and airship aspects were interesting additions.
New villains like Margrave Hest and her training regime of the children showed
a chilling new dimension in the callous way people are treated in the outside
world.
A great story which adds to the series in its own right and
is not just a carry through to the next book. Enjoyable but I wasn't blown
away.
Thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to review the book.
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