Henry thought that everything was getting back to normal. No more witch, no more monsters, and his uncle is threatening to patch the wall that holds all the cupboards. His parents are on their way back from their trip, and he'll have to return to his old life: over-protected and under-loved. That is, until he gets struck by some crazy lightning that blinds him!
Henrietta has finally admitted to hiding the key, and had only just returned it when Henry is struck down. It is she who notices that the lightning never actually touches him. There is something more going on. When Henry is visited by the evil wizard Darius, he learns a little about his past. He is a seventh son who possesses the sight - second sight which allows him to see the true nature of people. It is this that confronts him as his sight comes back. After a narrow escape from Darius, Henry is faced with another daunting task: finding his way back to his own world.
Meanwhile, Henrietta has gone into the cupboards, thinking she has followed Henry and Richard (who had planned to do just that before they were kidnapped!). She encounters the Queen of the Fitzfaeren, and learns that her grandfather was responsible for taking several powerful objects which led to the downfall of the faeren all those years ago.
Finding both Henry and Henrietta gone, Frank and Dotty are dismayed. Nothing prepares them, however, for the return of Darius! He is back looking for Henry, and calling him his "son"?! Darius does leave, but not before throwing the house in Kansas...well...out of Kansas. Opening the door, they find none of their neighbors or friends, only endless prairie. Faced with few other options, the rest of the family goes into the cupboards looking for them.
Henry's adventures are fraught with danger and peril, but he manages to find his way to Badon Hill. It is here he learns of his father: Mordecai. He is the one who saved them from the evil Queen of Endor, and locked her away. Will Henry and the others be able to stop the Queen from destroying everything in her quest for life and power? Will their family ever be reunited? This is an imaginative, adventurous sequel, one not to be read too late at night. Recommended.
"He could feel a warm tingling on his head, sprouting off his palm. Henry lowered his arm and looked at it. This time he watched it grow and swirl.*Library Link*
The world was dangerous. He could be strong, or he could be weak. In Kansas or Byzanthamum. A dandelion had burned him behind a barn, had made him something else. Or he had already been something else, and the dandelion made him notice. There was no place he could go to escape the questions he had," (Wilson, 2009).
If you liked this, check out:
The Chesnut King by N.D. Wilson (100 Cupboards, Book 3)
Beyond the Deepwoods by Chris Riddell and Paul Stewart (Edge Chronicles, Book 1)
Mister Monday by Garth Nix (Keys to the Kingdom, Book 1)
Wilson, N. D. (2009). Dandelion Fire. New York: Random House.
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