Props for the Monty Python reference, though. – but she also meets Hannibal Lecter (…not what I was expecting, but okay) and Rasputin, who has no business being in a fairy tale world because he was actually a real person. At one point, Rexi goes to a villains’ school or something and meets the kind of villains you would expect to see in a fairy tale world – Captain Hook, etc. In this book, we deal with Robin Hood and Camelot and a whole host of other myths and stories.
In the first one, it was mainly just The Wizard of Oz, so it wasn’t too bad. There was just too much going on in this book. Also, Rexi’s link to Dorothea means that she gets her memories and her emotions, which results in a weird, completely unnecessary love triangle that doesn’t make any sense. It’s a little dark and disturbing for an otherwise campy story. The problem is, every time Rexi dies, she goes to the underworld – Nome Ore – and is forced to sacrifice a link from her chain, aka a memory, in order to return. Rexi can die, but Dorothea is able to bring her back. After the events of Spelled, Rexi’s life force is tied to Dorothea, which basically makes her immortal – in the same way that Jack Harkness is. The main character in Wanted is Rexi, the sidekick from the first book. Wanted, however, seems to take all of the things that annoyed me in the first book and expand on them, and what comes out is just a mess.
It had its issues, but on the whole it was a cute story with good character progression and relationship developments. Spelled is a semi-retelling of The Wizard of Oz with some Baba Yaga and other fairy tales thrown in. Wanted is the second book in Betsy Schow’s Storymakers series, but whereas the first book, Spelled, was charming and fun, Wanted is merely chaotic and confusing.
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