Sunny, it seems, is a Leopard person, one of the magical folk who live in a world mostly populated by ignorant Lambs.
When a boy in her class, Orlu, rescues her from a beating, Sunny is drawn in to a magical world she's never known existed. She can't play soccer with the boys because, as she says, "being albino made the sun my enemy," and she has only enemies at school. Who can't love a story about a Nigerian-American 12-year-old with albinism who discovers latent magical abilities and saves the world? Sunny lives in Nigeria after spending the first nine years of her life in New York. Readers will be hooked from the first line. Dark, woodcut style art at the chapter heads, and an appended section of reproduced pages from Tom’s notes on various bogles met here and previously, reinforce the gloomy atmosphere of his narrative.
Just as in Revenge of the Witch (2005), it’s thanks to quick-thinking young Alice-a witch-in-training who teeters on the dark side’s brink but hasn’t quite made the leap-that Tom and his master emerge from the climactic battle alive (if considerably scathed). Here the duo is propelled into and out of captivity at the hands of corrupt priests in the course of a desperate effort to slay the Bane, a mind-reading, blood-hungry entity long imprisoned beneath the local cathedral. Opening with a victim’s agonized scream, Delaney returns to the boggart-ridden County for a second gruesome, lickety-split episode featuring young Tom Ward, seventh son of a seventh son and for some months now apprenticed to the Spook, a hunter of malign spirits.
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