Wow. What an intense and bizarre follow-up to the first book. What's lovely about this series is just how literate it is, and how many references are all over the place. At one point, in one tiny corner of the frame you can see what appears to be Peter Rabbit being eaten by wolves. Never drawn attention to. It's just there. He exists in this world because he exists in England around this time of publication. Really brilliant.
But other than that, after establishing a really interesting 'team' in the first volume, they have no problem whatsoever ripping it apart and forever damaging it. This was never going to be a tight crime fighting unit. I suppose I never should have thought of it this way. To say that some of the directions that they go into are surprising is an understatement.
This is a book for any one who is well read and likes a fun adventure. You can't beat it, really for that.
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