In this one, Jennifer Strange travels with Perkins to the perilous Cambrian Empire to hunt for the famed Eye of Zoltar - an artifact of great power, but one that can also turn the holder into lead. Despite being the third book, loose ends are not tied up - the story will continue. As usual, it’s bizarre, strange, and quirky. I have an orphaned assistant named Tiger Prawns, I am now Dragon Ambassador to the World, and I have a pet Quarkbeast at least nine times as frightening as the most frightening thing you’ve ever seen. So despite everything, it’s a good business in which to work. But when it works, a well-spelled feat of magic is the most wondrous thing to behold, like your favorite book, painting, music, and movie all at the same time, with chocolate and a meaningful hug from someone you love thrown in for good measure. They are for the most part undisciplined, infantile, argumentative, and infuriating their magic only works when they really concentrate, which isn’t that often, and misspellings are common. If you think wizards are all wise purveyors of the mystical arts and have sparkling wizidrical energy streaming from their fingertips, think again. I now manage forty-five barely sane sorcerers at Kazam, only eight of whom have a legal permit to perform magic. Here’s her summary of the way things stand:
The first chapter catches the reader up without really spoiling anything.
The Eye of Zoltar continues the adventures of Jennifer Strange, young manager of Kazam Mystical Arts Management. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers, 2014.
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