Review: strong sequel with good characters and poor editing
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2012
The characters still are the main strength of this series.The typos were atrocious and I compiled a list of 50+ of them in the last half of the book and sent them to the author.Hopefully he'll fix those.At this point, I don't think it (yet) goes in my 5-star category, as it's not a series I'd put on my 'all time favorites'.Some details:- More good action sequences- More detailed plotting, jostling, and walls built of assumptions crumbling around said plotters- Alex (main character) was *just* quiet enough not to be a 'whiney' character (imho).  It also helped that other characters poked good fun at his whining.- There's a "post read" afterglow of harry potter imho... seems like that's going to be tough to get around for anybody setting a series predominantly within or around some magical school- I'm eagerly looking forward to the next one- I see some potential that I may end up revising all books in the series up to 5 stars if the author continues improving itBonus: Author is currently keeping the pricing aggressive ($0.99).  For a series such as this (in my view), I'm very willing to continue at $0.99/book and hope that my impression continues to go up, at which point I'd pay more for each further installment.