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Another great installment of the Septimus Heap series! As I’m reading through this series, I occasionally wonder what happened to a character or plot device that we haven’t seen for a while and, of course, Angie Sage includes them as a major part of the next book. Like at the beginning of this book, I was wondering when we’d see Marcellus again and then he showed up the next chapter. Or I wondered about Wolfboy’s family and now we’re getting answers. It feels like Angie Sage never truly leaves her characters and their details forgotten.
In this particular book, I especially enjoyed the developments in Septimus and Simon’s relationship in this book. It was a long time coming! I like Simon’s character arc through the series. Watching his fall to Darkeness and then his slow climb to being the brother we only saw in other characters’ memories is very satisfying. Some of his actions in this second book seemed a little extreme as they were happening, but this book brings a lot of perspective to the power and corruption that the Darke has. If it can turn a bumbling, bitter boy like Merrin into the BBEG for a book, then it’s totally understandable that it turned an attentive, ambitious young man like Simon into who he was in Flyte. Needless to say, I’m glad Septimus had come around to appreciating Simon’s attempts to reconcile.
In this particular book, I especially enjoyed the developments in Septimus and Simon’s relationship in this book. It was a long time coming! I like Simon’s character arc through the series. Watching his fall to Darkeness and then his slow climb to being the brother we only saw in other characters’ memories is very satisfying. Some of his actions in this second book seemed a little extreme as they were happening, but this book brings a lot of perspective to the power and corruption that the Darke has. If it can turn a bumbling, bitter boy like Merrin into the BBEG for a book, then it’s totally understandable that it turned an attentive, ambitious young man like Simon into who he was in Flyte. Needless to say, I’m glad Septimus had come around to appreciating Simon’s attempts to reconcile.