In this second installment the reader is taken along on a journey with Marcus to save his twin sister Ellie after she been abducted by her mother Mirella. As in the first book each twin has a guardian and we are introduced more Ellie in this one as she leaves a mysterious letter for Marcus to solve. Marcus is not a patient kind of character that takes time to think things out he is all impulse and it really makes the story flow along as you not sure what kind of danger is going to befall him. Marcus is the star of this audiobook as his adventures are played out either from his impulsiveness or by the events that come to pass. Their a few side characters that bring some comedy relief to this rather dark tale about shadow magic. Erasmus the monkey and i did like the addition of more of the dragon as well. The performance is flawless and throughly kept my attention . Hard to tell by the ending if we will have more story in this world or not but i hope their is more story.