To start, in an alternate ending to the previous episode, Principal Krupp ends up in prison (“…a lot like being a student at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, except that the prison had better funding”). Not that there aren’t pranks and envelope-pushing quips aplenty. Sure signs that the creative wells are running dry at last, the Captain’s ninth, overstuffed outing both recycles a villain (see Book 4) and offers trendy anti-bullying wish fulfillment. This collaboration with Columbus is Vizzini’s (1981-2013) final book the future of the projected trilogy is unclear.Ī dark action-adventure-fantasy with surprising heart. What does it mean to fit in? Is the book world preferable to their crumbling reality? The prose is occasionally jumpy and chaotic, but the content always entertains. They end up tangling with gladiators, Nazis, cyborgs and more in a storyline that, despite its high levels of action, takes care to highlight the characters’ inner turmoil. But as the Wind Witch was banished and not eliminated, soon she returns and casts the children back into book worlds, still in pursuit of the magic book-but this time getting out will be harder. Worst, their father’s strange actions and decisions put their whole family at risk. Eleanor misses the camaraderie and closeness among the siblings when they had to work together. Cordelia fits in fine-thrives even-but experiences strange symptoms (she always feels very cold, for instance), hinting at a threat left over from their first adventure. Brendan struggles to fit in at his new elite private school. While the Walkers appear to be living large with the $10,000,000 wished for by Eleanor at the end of their last adventure, their new life is neither happy nor stable. House of Secrets’ (2013) happy ending gives way to new problems for the Walker children, both in reality and in writer-wizard Denver Kristoff’s pulpy genre-book worlds.
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