Book Two of Impossible Creatures
Christopher is once more back in the magic lands of the Archipelago, this time summoned there by a small dragon who needs his help to save a girl from her uncle who is going to kill her in order to secure his right to the throne of her and her father's kingdom.
The uncle, Claude, thinks his older brother, Argus, is too liberal. He has talked the king, their father, into making expensive upgrades to the kingdom and increased the size of the military. Although where the money for all this is coming from is not public information. So Claude has decided he should be king and he has also decided not to wait for his father, the king, to die. He poisons the king and frames Argus. Argus is arrested and imprisoned and Anya is told she is to be sent away to a private school. But instead her escorts, three soldiers, were been ordered by Claude to kill her. She was told to drink poison but she tricked the soldiers and escaped.
On the run through the countryside from her pursuers, a boy on a massive sphinx flew to her rescue just in time. It's Christopher, once more back in the Archipelago for more magical adventures, there to help Mal save her father from execution and the kingdom from her evil uncle Claude. And further to save the dragons who are dying in mass in their mountain home from an unknown illness. An illness that has very much to do with the power-hungry and greedy Claude.
Like the first book in the series, it was fairly interesting. Set about a year after the events of the first book, once again the two main characters are both young teens. I was glad that the author didn't kill off Mal's little pet bird friend and that none of the good guys had to die unlike in the first book.
Here is a review by Kirkus Reviews.
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