my spoiler-free review: A great sequel to a good first book, they answered
some questions left in the first book while still leaving some loose ends for the books
to come, the characters got development which was something i'd seen a lot of people complain
about in the first book. Overall good book and am happy to add it to my library
-spoilers ahead-
So, quick overall thoughts: Billy deserves to rot in a hole but going
more in depth with the book, here's my review:
1) The take on time travel
i really liked how they addressed exactly what we were thinking,
Paton explained very well (with an air of sarcasm which i thoroughly enjoyed)
that simply placing him back in time would cause more trouble then it's worth
also time travel itself makes no sense because if it succeeded wouldn't you remember that someone
was in the past? either way it worked out mostly in the end except for when mrs bloor went back, it makes sense that no-one remembers her but didn't she create some rifts? if she marries someone, then that persons path is altered it's SUPER messy and the author kind of avoided it
2)is it just me who's a tad confused with the family tree?
so, uncle paton, the 3 sisters and grandma bone are all siblings with paton having a 20 year age gap, then Lyell is grandma bones' son, who's also charlie's father
Then uncle patons father is Jamie and his brother is henry who travels in time and their cousin is
zeke who owns bloor's academy and is also the headmaster there and an old man living in an attic and his son is dr bloor and dr bloors son is manfred bloor and his wife is mrs bloor and i'm already confused
there's ALOT going on here and it was hard to keep track of everything but you get used to it ig?
3)how old is manfred?
this seems pretty weird but like is he a student? is he a teacher? what's up with that?
4)Cook is a really good ally to have, not only does she know a lot about magic, she can
also be an ally for the kids in case they're found she can make an alibi, then again the art teacher did more of that but she also has that authority
5) imagine trying to kill your cousin for over a hundred years because he finished your puzzle
that you didn't want him to finish? like seriously this old man needs to chill
6)i hate billy like, can he rot in a pit? thx
7)HOW DARE THEY RUN OVER PATON LIKE SERIOUSLY, IMMA THROW HANDS
if he died, i would've been SO upset (still hate his sisters though)
8)Charlie's new ability to enter paintings is super cool but they should've practiced on a less violent painting because charlie was really close to straight up dying
9)do endowed children have any common sense? like seriously they do the stupidest things,
did they trade common sense for their powers? is that how it works?
10)Paton being able to go out in the day is going to be really helpful, hopefully he can get a realllly good book to keep him distracted for awhile
overall, good book now i have to wait for the third one to arrive (hopefully very soon)