Review: not Hogwarts but still learning magic
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 19, 2013
King Henry price, both as a student and as an adult, is rude and obscene and funny and even though very much a fictional character, also very fully developed and a real personality.  Because of the rudeness, I would never recommend this to anyone who is genuinely offended by or even uncomfortable with foul language.  I'm not, being much more offended by hate language and things meant to hurt someone's feelings than I am by the F bomb, and I found this book and the one before it, to be entertaining and a lot of fun.I enjoy the story being told in two time frames, both in the school days at the magical, but not Hogwarts, asylum, and in the adult world where King Henry must make a living and deal with such things as finding his missing sister married to the Head Were-coyote.This series was recommended to me when i was lamenting being done with the most recent Dresden Series book, and there is a sense of familiarity in the use of magic to fight off supernatural crime. It is a fun and energetic story, if you like magic and mystery and a certain sense of honest cynicism.