Cut to five years previous, in a prequel to the whole series. The villain sets off after George and Harold, who are in juvie (“not much different from our old school…except that they have library books here.”). There, he witnesses fellow inmate Tippy Tinkletrousers (aka Professor Poopypants) escape in a giant Robo-Suit (later reduced to time-traveling trousers). To start, in an alternate ending to the previous episode, Principal Krupp ends up in prison (“…a lot like being a student at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, except that the prison had better funding”). Not that there aren’t pranks and envelope-pushing quips aplenty. Sure signs that the creative wells are running dry at last, the Captain’s ninth, overstuffed outing both recycles a villain (see Book 4) and offers trendy anti-bullying wish fulfillment. Each character continues to surprise both one another and readers with their emotional complexity.Ī captivating, edge-of-your-seat, action-packed fantasy. Beatty decidedly keeps readers on the edge of discovery as the plot unfurls. The magic and the mystery of the mountains weave from one chapter to the next. From the first gripping page, the book pulses with action and intrigue. A great evil has descended on Biltmore, but how will Serafina stop it if she cannot touch, feel, or talk to the living? Beatty’s latest shows no signs of collapsing into formula, instead presenting new, exciting, and sometimes-frustrating challenges for the beloved heroine and her crew. Heavy rains have rearranged the landscape, her friend Braeden sports a leg brace, and a scaly, clawed figure roams the mountainside. Much has changed while she was underground. Why was she buried? Who buried her? What happened to her body? Serafina glides through the forest in her not-quite-dead spirit form searching for answers. Through sheer determination and by keeping her feline wits about her, Serafina breaks free of her coffin. Suddenly she realizes she has been buried alive. She has nowhere to move, and the air smells of earth. Serafina awakes in a dark, confined space. The third volume of the Serafina series opens in terror.
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