This one wasn't as compelling as the first, I'll definitely say that much. There were a lot of moments where it was pretty clear the author knew what was going on but failed to inform the audience of a lot of small but important details, and I found myself having to go back a page or two to try and suss out what I had missed. Still, I enjoyed the concept and the characters enough to give it three stars, but there were definitely some pages where I stopped bothering to go back and reassess what I had missed. Still clever, still funny, but definitely lacking something that the first book in the series had. Maybe it was the magic.