Ash and Quill by Rachel CaineMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Noooooooooo, I thought this was a trilogy right up until I read the words to be continued ...!
Warning, spoilers ahead for the first and second books.
At the end of the second book the team have rescued Thomas and Morgan has freed herself from the Iron Tower. The Archivist has destroyed the Black Archives and killed Wolfe's mother, the Obscurist Magna, in the process. The Welsh army had taken over Oxford and was well on its way to taking over London. Jess and the rest of the group are in London and Jess' father plans to rob St Paul's Serapeum of its rare and valuable books before it is sacked by the Welsh, aided by a group of Burners. But Jess' father's 'plans' are spoilt by the Burners who double-cross him and force Morgan to send them all to Philadelphia, the heart of the Burner rebellion.
The city of Philadelphia has been under siege by the High Garda for 100 years, the Archivist feeling starving them out is better than creating martyrs by annihilating the compound.
Our heroes are treated as the enemy by the Burners and their enigmatic leader at first until Thomas' ability to build a printing press is explained, but as Thomas and jess build the press things are hotting up and the team plots their escape whilst Morgan learns of the downside to her powers.
The escape from Philadelphia and the subsequent adventures are too full of spoilers, just be warned there's the full range of human emotions at play here.
How long until book four?
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