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3.7 7
Middle Grade Fiction 346
Best in the Series
(Updated: June 11, 2026)
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5.0
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5.0
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Reader reviewed by Mairi

The book in which Mo bound the Adderhead's soul has begun to rot, leaving him desperate for a cure, but none of the bookbinders he finds know what to do. As the Adderhead searches for Mo, his daughter Violante (Her Ugliness) uses her somewhat superior mental abilities to locate him and proposes that they work together to bring down the Adderhead, an idea Mo seriously considers. His daughter Meggie, though, is less than thrilled with the plan.

I checked this book out of the library as soon as I could (when it was first bought, it never spent more than a day on the shelf). In retrospect, I should have reread Inkspell first. It's been years since I read the second book in the trilogy, so I was a little confused and kept having to "cheat" off my friends who had been smart and reread.


That being said, I loved the book, and despite the people who say it's the worst of the three I would argue that it's the best- it has everything that made the other two good, but more, and the ending is just perfect.

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