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Alexa’s journey continues right where it left off, on the Warwick Beacon, with a voice on the wind leading her. While the journey is uncertain, and at times seems dangerous, still she does what she must.
When the original plan to return to Lathbury has to be abandoned, it saddens the crew, but they oblige. When they receive directions that seem for sure to be heading them straight towards danger, they comply. Though Alexa begins to fear they’ll never be able to save their dear friend Yipes, she doesn’t give up.
The darkest of the three books, in this tale, Elyon is failing. The war between Elyon himself and his rival Abaddon is at its climax, and all hopes lie with Alexa and her friends. If they succeed they will save the land and restore it to its natural order and beauty. Should they fail, life will never be the same for any of them. In fact, it might be over.
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Another year has passed, and Alexa is pleased to be going back to Bridewell for the summer. Though her father has a strict litany of rules for her to follow, she fully intends to get into at least a little trouble.
Upon her first visit to the Library, she wistfully dreams of escaping through the secret tunnel out into the wild, but she knows it’s not possible, now that the tunnels are patrolled. Naturally, when she hears a knock on the wall behind her, she’s therefore quite alarmed. When she opens the door to find her friend Yipes dangling there, she knows everything is about to change.
With instructions in a letter left for her by Warvold, Alexa leaves behind and enclosed letter to her father, and escapes through the tunnels with Yipes, narrowly avoiding capture. Excited to be on another adventure, she’s also unsure. When one of her new companions turns out to be a convict, she becomes even more uncertain, but she decides that if Warvold trusted him, she can too.
Along the way, new secrets are learned, and Alexa comes to realize that whatever this mission of hers is, it’s huge. Save the world as she knows it huge. Daunting, to say the least.
With the help of her assorted companions, human, animal, and giant, Alexa makes her way to the dark kingdom at the edge of the land, only to find that everything is even more different than she had thought. And while the group earns itself some success, their journey is really just beginning, as is their battle.
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Alexa Daley has always been curious, and gotten into trouble because of it. But when her old friend, and the founder of life as they know it, suddenly dies, Alexa finds herself in an ever-growing web of trouble she isn’t sure how to deal with.
Alone with Warvold at the time of his death, there are those who suspect Alexa of knowing some secret. But all she really has are questions. Why did Warvold tell her that story about the blind men? What does it mean? What’s really outside the city walls?
Little does she know that the answers to those questions will only bring more confusion, as her adventures take her beneath her home and out into the wild, where the animals are waiting to inform her of further impending danger to life as she knows it.
Interesting take on how our actions can have unexpected consequences, including giving us the opposite of the outcome we’d intended.
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