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If you need a series that is fun, engaging, suitable for adult fantasy lovers while appropriate for younger teenagers but does not shy away from some real but delicate issues such teenagers will face, The Raven, the Elf and Rachel and the whole Books of Unexpected Enlightenment series are for you. Engaging and often hilarious characters get themselves into and out of serious trouble at a dizzying pace, while trying to grow up and navigate the boy/girl swamp and manage the expectations of the adults - not all of whom are on their side - at a magical boarding school. And dragons! And magic! Duels, ghosts, elves, angels, scary bad guys, hair-breadth escapes. And mystery upon mystery slowly unfolding through 3 books so far! This is book 2 in the series.

Most important, the stories don't try to muddle the distinctions between good and evil to the point where every villain is just misunderstood, every evil act excusable, and all good deeds just a hypocritical facade. In the glorious tradition epitomized by C.S. Lewis and Tolkien, while it is not always easy to tell good from evil and right from wrong, time and experience will tell. Your job is to be, like Sam Gamgee, faithful and loving. True heroism flows from that spring, and Lamplighter's characters live in a world full of the deep, personal - and, I might add, normal - relationships of sister to sister and brother, parents to children, daughter to grandfather - and true friends. These are flawed - sometimes deeply flawed - characters who nonetheless love each other and dread doing, not just suffering, evil.

Lamplighter isn't interested in telling us how all the villains are just misunderstood, like sparkly vampires, and how great acts of evil are acceptable or, worse, indifferent. No, she's interested in seeing just who people are as they reveal themselves through their lives and actions.

This second book in the series begins where the whirlwind 1st book ended. Rachel, a diminutive yet irrepressible young magician, has gathered a group of remarkable and, to say the least, colorful friends about her at Roanoke Academy for the Magical Arts. Things go wrong at an often dizzying pace - there's no slogging through pages of background or filler. Rachel, a good and proper daughter of upstanding and loving parents, seems the least likely person to attract trouble. Yet, trouble arises.

And Something is going on, something deep. Secret wizard agents working with her father are maddeningly unhelpful; a sort of truth serum broaches the topic of acceptable levels of privacy; the wild boy Zigfried is both bound by the strictest code of honor - yet willing to do many things, such as spying on people and executing elaborate revenge, that seem more than a little iffy. But, hey, he has a talking, flying, fire-breathing dragon for a best friend, so who is going to argue with him? And that's not the half of it - there is raven, and this elf, and this gigantic tree, and secrets that must not be told...

Get this book and read it yourself or to your 14-year old daughter. Maybe wait on the 12 year old son for a couple years - nothing bad, but might make him uncomfortable. And get ready to eagerly order every subsequent book in the series.


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The Raven The Elf And Rachel L Jagi Lamplighter Books Reviews

In the second book, The Raven, the Elf, and Rachel, the danger from the first one has been superficially resolved, but we quickly discover that it was merely the tip of a much more dangerous scheme, one that could destroy not only Rachel’s world, but all in the linked Multiverse. I think I’m using terminology she doesn’t use in the books, but this is the essence of it. Rachel meets a wise, beautiful elf with a tragic past, and learns to keep her secrets. The ending of this second book closes out the arc begun in the first, but leaves openings for sequels.

I say I really enjoyed the books, and I would heartily recommend them to any children of an age to read Harry Potter and above. If you still enjoy a revisit to the Pevensies, as an adult, you will also likely be charmed and happy with this world. In a nod to CS Lewis, there is a very small lion, the size of a housecat, who at one point in the books is seen in a vision as being “larger than the Universes” and who can talk, but rarely does. Two of my favorite characters are the enigmatic Siggy and his familiar dragon Lucky, and I can easily see these tow have a long and tragic story to tell, while on the surface being the bumbling clowns of the piece. Can you tell I’m looking forward to more of this series?
The second in the series does not disappoint. This book is a little more deliberate than the break-neck first book, but that is not a bad thing. It is still compelling, and if I was able to put this one down once or twice (to deal with life, and in contrast to the first book), the deeper story was well worth the investment. These books are delightful for any age, although some slight mature matter might render them more appropriate for post-elementary students.
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What is it about? Rachel manages to (barely) catch her breath from the first few days at Roanoke Academy, only to find that the evil she and her friends defeated represents only the opening salvo in what will turn out to be a much more dangerous and protracted battle, with stakes beyond her own life and family.
This book gets 4.6 stars out of 5. I enjoyed it. As with the first in the series, I got to a point (around 75%) where I had to finish reading it. I didn't want to put it down.
I love and adore the premise of this series. I think the similarities to the Harry Potter series are at basic levels, which prove Lamplighter used her own creative skills rather than stealing Rowling's.
I found myself skimming some descriptions. I'm bad about this. It is one reason I could never "get into" The Lord of the Rings. I want to hear the characters speak or run through an action scene with them. I don't want to look around at the setting. I will say, most of the setting pieces were important to the overall story.
I love Rachel. She's a fun perfectionist. I felt like some of her reactions to one of the boys in the story seemed "too mature" for what she would be thinking. She's involved in a very innocent relationship and that's very appealing since she's only 13.
I'm not crazy about everyone else getting the credit for all of Rachel's amazing saves. I know she's fine with it - but I don't think she should be quite as accepting. She gets angry because her dad treats her like a little girl (and she is his little girl) but doesn't insist he pay attention to the fact she just SAVED THE WORLD. I had a hard time swallowing it.
I still recommend this to anyone who loves magical stories. It was quite enjoyable. In the end, I rarely read a book containing a story with choices I concur with fully. Yes, I am THAT reader.
If you need a series that is fun, engaging, suitable for adult fantasy lovers while appropriate for younger teenagers but does not shy away from some real but delicate issues such teenagers will face, The Raven, the Elf and Rachel and the whole Books of Unexpected Enlightenment series are for you. Engaging and often hilarious characters get themselves into and out of serious trouble at a dizzying pace, while trying to grow up and navigate the boy/girl swamp and manage the expectations of the adults - not all of whom are on their side - at a magical boarding school. And dragons! And magic! Duels, ghosts, elves, angels, scary bad guys, hair-breadth escapes. And mystery upon mystery slowly unfolding through 3 books so far! This is book 2 in the series.

Most important, the stories don't try to muddle the distinctions between good and evil to the point where every villain is just misunderstood, every evil act excusable, and all good deeds just a hypocritical facade. In the glorious tradition epitomized by C.S. Lewis and Tolkien, while it is not always easy to tell good from evil and right from wrong, time and experience will tell. Your job is to be, like Sam Gamgee, faithful and loving. True heroism flows from that spring, and Lamplighter's characters live in a world full of the deep, personal - and, I might add, normal - relationships of sister to sister and brother, parents to children, daughter to grandfather - and true friends. These are flawed - sometimes deeply flawed - characters who nonetheless love each other and dread doing, not just suffering, evil.

Lamplighter isn't interested in telling us how all the villains are just misunderstood, like sparkly vampires, and how great acts of evil are acceptable or, worse, indifferent. No, she's interested in seeing just who people are as they reveal themselves through their lives and actions.

This second book in the series begins where the whirlwind 1st book ended. Rachel, a diminutive yet irrepressible young magician, has gathered a group of remarkable and, to say the least, colorful friends about her at Roanoke Academy for the Magical Arts. Things go wrong at an often dizzying pace - there's no slogging through pages of background or filler. Rachel, a good and proper daughter of upstanding and loving parents, seems the least likely person to attract trouble. Yet, trouble arises.

And Something is going on, something deep. Secret wizard agents working with her father are maddeningly unhelpful; a sort of truth serum broaches the topic of acceptable levels of privacy; the wild boy Zigfried is both bound by the strictest code of honor - yet willing to do many things, such as spying on people and executing elaborate revenge, that seem more than a little iffy. But, hey, he has a talking, flying, fire-breathing dragon for a best friend, so who is going to argue with him? And that's not the half of it - there is raven, and this elf, and this gigantic tree, and secrets that must not be told...

Get this book and read it yourself or to your 14-year old daughter. Maybe wait on the 12 year old son for a couple years - nothing bad, but might make him uncomfortable. And get ready to eagerly order every subsequent book in the series.