Horn Book Review
Mebus brings his trilogy to a close, sending thirteen-year-old Rory, his incorrigible sister Bridget, and their improbable crew of magical roaches, Munsee Indians, and ghostly historical figures on an odyssey across all five boroughs of New York. As usual, the welter of characters and overlapping time frames are confusing; fans will be eager to see how it all ends. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
Mebus (probably) concludes his tangled but inventive epic, cranking up the struggle among New York City's supernatural residents to a climactic battle in Central Park. Even as the power-mad magician Willem Kieft is gathering an army of minor gods and murderous spirits on the pretext of wiping out the indigenous Munsees once and for all, young Rory and his indomitable little sister Bridget set out on a frantic, five-borough search for fragments of a certain diary that may hold the key to both their stricken mother's life and Kieft's defeat. Though a partial list of names at the front isn't going to help readers keep track of the teeming cast, there's plenty of action and humor ("God of Spies! That's so me!" warbles flamingly idiotic bit player Nathan Hale) to compensateplus spectacular magic, stunning revelations and encounters with such New York icons as Teddy Roosevelt and a subterranean alligator "easily the size of a tour bus." The ultimate victory is credibly hard-won, and though the tale's internal logic doesn't bear close inspection, overall it's turned out to be a grand adventure. (Fantasy. 11-13) ]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
