WARNING: Spoilers Ahead
Bernadette Crowley feels like she’s finally getting a handle on her diabetes diagnosis. At least, she can finally manage to not summon a demon every time she checks her blood sugar. But without her Grandma Orla, who disappeared into the demon dimension while protecting their family’s coven, even big wins don’t seem to matter as much.
Frustrated that no one is trying hard enough to rescue Grandma Orla, Ber takes matters into her own hands, using her growing powers to try to reach the demon dimension. But nothing can prepare her for the truth, a history that ties together her family and demons back generations and a betrayal that has haunted them for years.
With her friends Cai and Phoebe and her alert dog Clio, Ber must venture into the unknown to save her grandma and the magical world as a whole.
The story begins a month after the first book left off. Ber struggles with the loss of her Grandma Orla and Finn, the mystery class demon, and managing her diabetes.
Ber feels like she’s the only one in her family who cares that Grandma Orla is gone. I feel like Ber is being a little too hard on her parents. They do care that Orla is gone, they do miss her, and they did try to research a way to get her back, but they couldn’t find one. So as adults, they try to do the mature thing and move on, and they want Ber to do the same. But Ber is not an adult. She is a thirteen-year-old girl. She is a reckless whirlwind of emotions, determined to find a way into the demon dimension and bring her grandma home.
A bit of a spoiler, Ber is learning to manage her new insulin pump. See the visual below:
After one particular scene, I’m not sure whether having an insulin pump or having to manually inject yourself is more difficult.
Similar to the first book, I felt a little lost and was left even more confused by the overly complex magic system. I was hoping to learn more about the other types of magic uses. We learn a bit more about Mind Mages and Plant Mages, but nothing about Weather Witches.
The author, Clare Edge, notes in the Acknowledgments that this is the end of Ber’s story, which is a shame, as I would have liked to learn more about this magical world.