It’s no Waxwork II: Lost in Time, but it’ll do.

42. Black Dawn – L.J. Smith

This one’s in a castle. And there’s a shapeshifting falcon. It is a nice break from the mostly modern houses and apartments and schools and malls that the others in the series are set in. And again, a shapeshifting falcon provides a nice change of pace. Oh, and there’s blue fire. And a shapeshifting falcon. Unfortunately, it is not the falcon which must find its soulmate. The falcon has been denied such outcomes.

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Merricat has just told Peregrine that she is not actually a shapeshifting falcon, she just bears resemblance to Sam the Eagle and has a falcon name. Merricat was very clever.