Stolen Magic

Elodie is traveling with the dragon Mastress Meenore, and His Lordship Count Jonty Um, an ogre, to Elodie’s homeland. Before they get there, she stops and see the Replica, only to find it has been stolen. She realizes how bad this is, because if they don’t get the Replica back soon, the volcano will explode. They decide that the Count must leave them and warn the people who live on the volcano, to make sure they evacuate their homes before it is too late. In the meantime, Elodie and Mastress Meenore try to find out who the thief is by deducing and inducing. It is harder than they expected, though, because there are so many people who could be the thief.

This book is very suspenseful, although it is not very clear how Elodie figured out who the thief is–I felt like her solution is just a random guess that happened to be right. However, the book has a lot of action and the plot moves really quickly, and the book gets exciting really quickly, and stayed exciting through the whole thing. My favorite character was the cook, Ludda, because she seems very funny and is teased in a funny way.