Beyond the Valley of Thorns

Finished this one off last night. The 2nd book of the Land of Elyon trilogy. Alexa is sucked into a quest with more dangerous consequences: To prevent the puppet of a dangerous seraph from taking over the land for his master. He wants the last Jocasta stone that enables Alexa to communicate with mammals, although I'm not sure how it'll let anyone rule the land. Didn't even realize it was a trilogy when I was reading the 1st book: The 1st book was fairly self contained in its story but the 2nd is more definitely spilling over to the 3rd. I'll go ahead and read the 3rd whenever it comes out.