

In this sequel to Legacy and the Queen (2019), Legacy Petrin and her friends Javi and Pippa have returned to Legacy’s home province and the orphanage run by her father. 9-12)Ī young tennis champion becomes the target of revenge.

Ibbotson includes monsters, ghouls, and murderous ghosts through tongue-in-cheek humor she provides an endlessly amusing book to delight readers.

Belladonna finally succeeds in conjuring up vipers instead of flowers and bunnies, and eventually learns that Terence has more power than anyone suspected. Although she knows that handicap will disqualify her, she enters the competition anyway when she meets Terence, a neglected orphan boy with a pet worm named Rover who seems to be a witch's familiar. One is a beautiful young witch with a problem: Belladonna simply cannot do black magic. Enter the eccentric local witches who will compete to produce the most terrifying black magic they can muster. He's dismayed when a prophesied new wizard doesn't arrive, and decides he'll have to marry a witch and have an heir to continue the line. Arriman is tired of wizardry and yearns for retirement. Imagination and humor run rampant as Arriman the Awful, the Wizard of the North, tries to find a bride in this hilarious romp from Ibbotson ( The Secret of Platform 13, 1998).
