Loving this trend of book sequels being just as good if not better than the first book. If you loved the first book - or even just slightly liked it! - you absolutely need to get this.

Seven, Valley and Thorn are back! After facing off with the nightbeast in book 1 and succeeding, the trio are back with participating in the Golden Frog Games! A quadrennial olympic style event for all the young witches in the Twelve Towns! But tensions against Spares haven’t gone from the conclusion before, and when mysterious hexes start flying from unknown places, Seven’s powers could cause major trouble, and the nightbeast not fully being out of the picture, chaos soon starts up.

As always, the delightful trio were wonderful and loveable. The side characters were memorable and fit in really well. The diversity as well was great and normalised just like the first book!

A lot goes on in the story but it’s quite well paced out - a lot of the games, a lot of the mystery and a lot of character development!

Honestly, this series deserves so much more attention. It’s wonderful, and with so many people looking for alternatives to Harry Potter this is the absolutely perfect replacement! I would love to see this turn into a large IP with movies, games and all sorts!!

The Golden Frog Games (Witchlings, #2)

Claribel A. Ortega