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I recently gave this to my niece and picked it up to read to talk about it with her. I am very much not the target audience of this one, as someone who rarely reads middle grade and sometimes has a tough time with fantasy. This one follows Christopher, whose family is the keeper of the passage in the Otherworld (like ours) and Mal, a young girl from the magical Archipelago where magical creatures exist. Except there are fewer and fewer of them (Mal is especially fond of what is perhaps the last griffin in existence), due to a depletion of the glimourie which powers the magic.

Mal and Christopher embark on a journey, alongside some colorful companions. Each quest is over fairly quickly and easily, which is just one way in this novel felt overstuffed. It also went much darker in the end than expected!