S U M M A R Y 

Elsie thought she was safe, despite the villain of the opus murders escaping to freedom. But when she's suddenly arrested for being an unregistered spellbreaker, her life becomes even MORE complicated than before, something she hadn't dreamed possible. Now they have to catch the murderer, before everything unravels completely.

(NOTE: This is a sequel and the second part of a duology - there might be spoilers for the first book below. Also, I reread Spellbreaker before starting Spellmaker for the best of experiences. A++ would definitely recommend.)

 C H A R A C T E R S

I love Elsie. I adore Bacchus. Ogden makes my heart warm. EVERYONE is awesome except the bad guy and even there... there's that twinge, that bit of understanding, that honestly makes a villain even better for me because you can kind of understand them even if you can't excuse them for what they've done. I love the relationships in this, which is the very heart of the duology at the end of the day. 

 P L O T 

Spinning off just about directly from where Spellbreaker leaves off, Elsie is suddenly in so much trouble, and of course in typical Elsie manner, it sort of escalates in a comedy of catastrophe. Very much makes me think of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors in some ways, complete with misunderstandings. While I was totally invested in the main plot - stop the bad person from doing bad things - I was honestly more invested in the romance, which rarely happens to me. But Charlie always somehow grabs me like that. Bacchus is just my favorite ever and I'm so happy!

 N A R R A T I O N 

Same narrators as the first book, and again they did fantastically well!

 O V E R A L L 

LOVE this book. Charlie is a favorite author of mine, so perhaps I'm biased, but I really enjoyed this book and the duology as a whole and definitely foresee myself rereading again in the future.