In this book, she gets another awesome moment, but my problem with this awesome moment is that it means that, for another book, Cecelia does absolutely nothing awesome at all even though she and James had to deal with the main plot line.
In The Grand Tour, Kate gets a really awesome moment when everyone else has been obstructed by the villain. Kate’s lack of involvement with a majority of the plot means that at the end I felt highly dissatisfied with the conclusion. Compared to Cecelia and James, she just didn’t have as much to do. That summarizes perfectly how I felt about Kate’s activities throughout the book.
About the middle of the book is a letter from Kate to Cecelia, where Kate basically says that she has nothing to talk about. Kate, I felt, got a little bit pushed to the side as Cecelia was investigating the main bulk of the plot. This time, it wasn’t so much of quantity of viewpoints than quality. In The Grand Tour, I mentioned the imbalance that I felt between Kate and Cecelia, and I felt it again in this book. Frankly, this book was, unfortunately, a little boring. Sure, there are fun moments, but it’s not underriding the whole novel as with S & C.
The fun was missing for me, especially in this book, as the plots got more complicated. On the other hand, I felt that Sorcery and Cecelia had something that was missing in the next two books, which was a subtle sort of cheekiness and fun. On the one hand, I loved Sorcery and Ceceliaso much that I cannot help but like this one, the last in the trilogy. While Cecy and James are off learning the perils of steam engines and stone circles, the questions in the letters between the two couples multiply: What’s causing the eruptions at Halliwar Tower? Who put the grass snake in the nursery? What has prompted Kate’s sister to make an unannounced visit to the country at the height of the social season? And will the mysterious rescued girl ever speak? I am incredibly torn in my thoughts about The Mislaid Magician. Childcare takes on a whole new dimension when all five children begin to cast spells themselves. Kate and her husband, Thomas, stay home, minding James and Cecy’s brood as well as their own.
On orders from Lord Wellington himself, Cecy and her husband, James, are sent north to investigate. To untangle a plot that threatens the very unity of the kingdom, they must learn the secret shared by a night prowler, a mute girl, and a missing magician. Ten years after the adventures they shared in Sorcery and Cecelia and The Grand Tour, cousins Kate and Cecy are at it again. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer, was published in 2006 by Harcourt. The Mislaid Magician, or Ten Years After, by Patricia C.
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