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One final adventure for Ropa Moyo – orphan, mischief-maker and failed magician. Secrets of the First School is the mystery-filled finale to T. L. Huchu’s USA Today bestselling Edinburgh Nights series.
"I’ve had my arse kicked more times than I can count"
Ropa Moyo is dead, banished to the Other Place by the reanimated spirit of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville of Scotland. Turns out being on the losing side sucks worse than being skint.
Now, the Cult of Dundas intends to ascend to godhood, spreading their corrupting reach from Edinburgh to all of Scotland’s schools of magic. Ropa must find some way to escape the Other Place, save her sister and gather allies across the country before Edinburgh falls.
A royal plot, a family secret and a stolen body. As Scotland descends into petty in-fighting, Ropa’s only hope lies in her grandmother’s final secret: the first school of magic.
An ancient power is returning . . . and is hungry for revenge.
Ropa is dragged back to the world of the living via combination of Priya’s actions and a horrible spell by her dead father. She is needed to help fight Henry Dundas and hopefully prevent him from fully returning from the dead and becoming a god. Oh, and she needs to rescue her little sister from becoming a pawn in Dundas’ plans.
The last book ended on a cliffhanger with Ropa seemingly dead and the story left unfinished. This books starts right up where the last one ended and from page one the action is pretty much non-stop as Ropa and Priya join forces with Scotland’s witches, the First School of the title, to thwart a return to the horrors of the past witch hunts and an authoritarian rule of Scotland by magicians determined to become gods.
There are heroic acts, acts of betrayal and there is one singular scene that is not for the squeamish when one of the witches is killed but overall this is a satisfying conclusion to Ropa’s tale, though there is a dangling clue that we could hear more about her. Recommended. ~~ Stephanie L Bannon
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