Paperglass:War of the Princes (#2) by A.R. Ivanovich

[Jax14]

This is the second book in the series and is a fantasy novel for young adults and up.

Katelyn has returned to her seemingly normal life in Haven and graduation day has arrived. The celebrations are disturbed by a man intent on destroying the weather station and yelling about paperglass. This means that Katelyn's hope of the outside world not interfering in her safe valley is dashed. She is recruited as a field agent by Haven's Hall of Defense to go back to the outside world and use her ability of the Pull to find a team that had gone through earlier but have vanished. One of whom was Katelyn's real mother. Ensnared in the war again, she is joined by old friends and new acquaintances who become comrades. And as always, she adds many villains to her list of enemies. Will she find paperglass in time to protect her valley from the dangers that face it?

Book 2 started off a little slowly for me but picked up the pace and added its importance to the story. I'm enjoying the way that the bits making up the story are revealed and how they are combining to make cohesive sense. As new abilities manifest themselves we learn how they all work together as cogs in the machine. Kat and Rune's story gets taken further but I'm hoping that more of Rune and Ruby's stories will be explained. You can sense that they play more important roles so hopefully more background will be offered later. I like how Kyle comes into his own in this book and how assumptions about Dylan in the first book are proved right and wrong. The historian and airship aspects were interesting additions. New villains like Margrave Hest and her training regime of the children showed a chilling new dimension in the callous way people are treated in the outside world.

A great story which adds to the series in its own right and is not just a carry through to the next book. Enjoyable but I wasn't blown away.

Thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to review the book.