The favor is to mend a book that’s not just any ordinary book…. When Sophie is caught by Prigg and his associates trying to burn books, she is rescued by none other than Peter Nimble, who then asks for a favor in return. Meanwhile, Inspector Prigg is bent on purging the city of all “nonsense” - and that means a plan to burn all books. Sophie has taken up her mother’s former profession and is a book mender. Sophie Quire lives in Bustleburgh, where her father is the owner of a bookstore and her mother, who mysteriously died when she was a baby, was an expert book mender. Readers do not need to be familiar with the first book in the series to read and enjoy Sophie Quire. Two-sentence summary: Solid middle grades action-adventure story, perfect for readers who might find Rick Riordan’s The Red Pyramid a little too intimidating or scary. I am disappointed in this story and would have liked to have seen it take a more wholesome direction. While the language itself was technically clean, the ideas and subtleties were not. There were just so many details and things that are not beneficial for young minds to be devouring. So many drug references and descriptions were included though, to the author's credit, were not described in a positive light. I think part of what the author had in mind was to nurture wonder and an appreciation for stories and lovely, different things, which is a noble purpose, but everything ended up coming across with a bent toward sorcery and witchcraft.Ī character in the story acts seductively to get what she wants, attempts to teach a young girl to do the same, and runs a drug den. This had well-developed vocabulary and was well-written, but was so heavy on the idea that magic is what keeps our world alive and without it we'd all die. However, there was major emphasis on magic, charms, spells, and summoning magical things and people from a set of 4 magical books. This second installment was also mysterious, fast-paced, and intriguing.

The first book in the series was eccentric, mysterious, somewhat gruesome, and a tad violent.

Peter nimble book 3