The Mislaid Magician or Ten Years After

The Mislaid Magician: or Ten Years After (Cecelia and Kate #3) by Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer is much much better than their last novel The Grand Tour. It was better for the reader that they went back to the ideas of a novel by correspondence. Although it had been a while since I had read the first and second books and I had to make a family tree so I could keep track of who belonged to whom.

As suggested by the title, it has been 10 years since the Honeymoon Grand Tour, and both Cecelia and Kate have settled into 19th century connubial bliss, family and dogs included. I enjoyed reading about the exploits of Kate and Cecilia's children. I also found the mystery to be more engaging this time.

This being the third and (up to this point) final novel in the series, I can say with certainty that the first novel is definitely the best of the series. That being said, I very much enjoyed the writing style of Ms. Wrede and Ms. Stevermer and will someday get to their other novels sitting on my bookshelf.