We loved the first book and enjoyed the slightly spine-tingling antics Lucy, Oliver and two new kids are up to inorder to protect Blackford House from a new evil.
Two new kids, Agatha and Algernon Fujima arrive with their nanny, Bedelia Graves, claiming to be long-lost heirs to Blackford House.
Algernon doesn't talk, not since his parents' deaths, and he carries around a creepy doll, Kenny, he insists saved him in the accident that killed his parents. Kenny is much more than he appears, of course. Agatha is super-bright and figures out what Lucy and Oliver are hiding -- the animals in the clock and the clock powering Blackford House's magic.
But no sooner does Bedelia go poking around in the clock's utility closet than she's zapped and a new evil appears -- a Minotaur, raging like a bull through the house's strangely elongating corridors. Soon the smudged portrait of Edgar Blackford peels itself off the canvass and comes after the kids in what is now a rapidly growing and evolving Labyrinth.
I won't spoil how it ends, but Lucy, Oliver, Agatha and Algernon have to work together to figure out how to save the house, with a guest appearance from a very special sparkly creature we've only heard rumors of before this, even if it means destroying the clock's magic and restoring balance to the woods.
Enjoy!
