Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians may have set the stage but The Scrivener’s Bones really starts to flesh out the characters, their personalities, and their relationships with one another. We actually get to learn a lot more about Alcatraz and Bastille – and the other characters – in this book than I felt we did in the first one.
We also get to meet Bastille’s mother – though she’s not nearly as warm and fuzzy as the Smedry clan. Meanwhile Kazan has the ability to get himself lost which actually comes in handy as the group’s guide. Australia, for example, has the ability to wake up in the morning looking incredibly ugly. I loved being introduced to new members of the Smedry family and getting to know their remarkable – and silly – talents. The journey there is almost as exciting as the dangers and adventure that await them all deep inside the enigmatic library. Using his abilities Alcatraz realizes that their grandfather is in danger and so he, his cousin Australia (Sing Sing’s sister), and his uncle Kazan rush off to the not-so-lost Library of Alexandria. In The Scrivener’s Bones we see Alcatraz team up with some more of his family members to rescue Grandpa Smedry who has gone looking for Alcatraz’s father, Attica Smedry. Okay, so, maybe we don’t really see the Free Kingdoms yet. The first one is an okay introduction but The Scivener’s Bones is a real action-packed thrill ride that takes you out of our world – a world that you only just start to see differently in Alcatraz Versus the Evil Libarians – and thrusts you full into the Free Kingdoms. A big part of the reason I enjoyed this book so much more is that it takes the whole story a step further than the first book did.
I had a bit of hard time getting into Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians but I devoured The Scrivener’s Bones in just one day. If there was something that you didn’t quite like in one book then the next one down the line seems to make it all right. This is a trend in this series and a very welcome one. Picking up shortly after the first book in the Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians series ended, The Scrivener’s Bones basically takes everything great about its predecessor and some how makes it even better.
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