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With all the hundreds of young adult fiction books that are published each year, Mary Hoffman’s Stravaganza books still remain my all-time favorite series since I picked up the first installment seven years ago. I do rather like Lucien so I don't mind all too much! ( ) Some familiar figures appear again, most notably Lucien and Arianna, which seems to be a running joke. There is some repetition regarding what a Stravagante is and how it all works, but on the whole it's not too bad. There's an awful lot of new introductions to be made in each book, both to the new lead character and to the new town in which they find themselves, but it's all well included into the storyline, rather than being an info dump. It's a similar theme that I've noticed in other series of 7 books, in that the fourth book is the one where the storyline really takes off and becomes more serious. After the bloodshed of the last book, the storyline has been stepped up a notch and the di Chimichi family are becoming more and more of a threat to the Stravagantes. There he meets up with a student at the University, Lucien.Īlthough there's about two years between this book and the previous one, the writing is just as good and it's hard to tell there's been any break in the story or that the previous one was meant to be the last. He is dyslexic but finds himself travelling to Padavia's University where he works helping to print books.
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Each book introduces a new Stravagante and this one follows Matt. This is the fourth book in the Stravangaza series, the first after it was extended from a trilogy.