Emerald City Series: Jack the Raven: Chapterbook Five

Here, the story of the Raven and the Wren end. Which part of everything to lose do you want from me first? This begins as a story of friendship and ends as a nightmare. A nightmare brought to life by the secret powder from the tray of lurid magick. From that moment the jet plane wheels land in Chicago, the action never slows down in this terror of a book. It tells of Myra and her bird-like companion on a quest for the strange ingredients necessary to avenge the dead girls of Witch City in a vexing and hexing of their own plan. Jack the Raven accompanies the goth-y girls as he beguiles them with magic elixirs and introduces Myra Doom to a dark turn that will transfix and transform her for the rest of her life. This is the book that tells how sleight of hand and tricks of terrible dimness can bind one girl's life to a carcass and another into an asylum. This is a debaser for anyone who might find themselves rescuing small birds that would just as soon die all on their own inside gilded cages they build for themselves. Reinforcements in the form of mental Institutions, ECT treatments, and collect phone calls make for a depravity cabaret. A Cautionary Tale within--not for the faint of heart or the flyweight reader. In these pages, Myra Doom is going to learn a very valuable lesson about the misanthropic trust fall.