I got the third book for as a present and decided to go back and red the first two, just because it had been a long time since reading them. Abarat was just as good as I remember it being! It takes you to such a magical world that is a bit more scary than the average YA books you find. I could not stop reading after I picked the book up, and still found myself on the edge of my seat when Candy was in trouble even though I knew what happened because I had read it before. I even liked how the book ends, because even though it is not much of an ending to all the problems it made me excited to start the next book in the series!