Fablehaven; Rise of the Evening Star

By Brandon Mull

This is the second installment of the great Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull. My review for the first book can be found here. I enjoy these books very very much. I have read three of these books recently and am going to be starting the fifth and final book(oh so sad).

This book starts with Kendra at school. It has been a year sense her excursions at Fablehaven last year. Kendra has come to realize that when the Fairies kissed her last year, they changed her. She no longer needs the milk to see the true image of the magical creatures. So when a new students enters her class in finals week, and all the girls in the class seem to fall in love with him, all Kendra sees is a ugly, disgusting, stinky goblin.
All Kendra can think about is how to get ride of this goblin, who poisoned her teacher.
Kendra meets Errol and he says he knows how to get ride of the goblin. So Kendra and Errol and Seth go one a little expedition in which Seth gets bit by a stone frog.

After finals are over, Seth and Kendra go back to Fablehaven, where Grandpa and Grandma Sorenson have recruited help to find the secret artifact that is somewhere in Fablehaven.
During there first day on the preserve, Kendra and Seth get to meet Warren, Dale's younger brother. A couple years ago Warren  went out on the preserve alone and came back an albino, as the people on the preserve call it. It means that he is been brainwashed or something and does not have any thoughts of his own and is very white(hence the term albino). He has not responded to any help that Dale, Grandpa, or anyone has given him. But when Kendra touches him he feels it. And for the first time in a long time there is hope for him.
One of the help that Grandpa has hired turns out to be a traitor, in fact a narcoblix (it is kind of like a vampire but instead of sucking the blood out it can control its victims in there sleep). Kendra and Seth are the only ones who are not in the custody of the traitor. Seth decides to go to where they think the artifact is. When there Seth must battle a crazy, disturbing creature who most likely turned Warren albino. After defeating the creature, Seth is unconscious some where in Fablehaven, and Kendra is suddenly surprised when Warren gets up and talks to her and look some what normal.
Kendra and Warren then go for the artifact.

This book is a great second installment to the series. It is captivating and intriguing. If you enjoy fantasy, you will enjoy this book.

Review by Sweetie Pie