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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on April 1, 2013
Jake Wilde gets himself expelled from his posh private school for one purpose: so he can be sent back to his guardian Oberon Venn and accuse him of murdering his father, David. But when Jake arrives at Venn's decaying estate, Wintercombe Abbey, he learns that David wasn't murdered. David disappeared while he and Venn were experimenting with a Victorian time-machine made of an obsidian mirror, an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013 | Older Fiction
First in a projected trilogy, this plot-driven time-travel fantasy compensates for its unremarkable prose with sheer copiousness--in wintry...Log In or Sign Up to Read More