So, read this one as a series.Īfter defeating the queen and witches of book one, Mup's family lives in her castle-a home Mups has trouble settling in to thanks to the experiences. Book two continues after where the first one left off, leaving a bit of a lost feeling and light confusion during the first chapters. Celine Kiernan weaves a timely and essential truth into the second book of her trilogy: that dismantling oppression means honoring the pains of the past, and perhaps the most potent magic of all is encouraging joy and hope wherever possible.įirstly, I didn't read book one and that was a mistake. When an enchanted snow blankets the castle, Mup’s family is cut off from the rest of the kingdom, and the painful memories of the old queen’s victims begin to take form, thanks to a ghost whose power may be too much for even Mup and Mam to handle. While Mup’s mam tries to restore balance to a formerly oppressed world, Mup herself tries to settle into her strange new home with her dad, Tipper, and Crow.

But the queen’s legacy lingers in the fear and mistrust of her former subjects and in the memories that live in the castle’s very walls.

The old queen and her raggedy witches have fled Witches Borough, and Mup’s family has moved into the cold, newly empty castle. In the second book of the Wild Magic trilogy, courageous young Mup and her family are trying to heal and restore the kingdom when they uncover an ancient and powerful anger.

Into the grey by celine kiernan