Wanted: a sequel — as fast as you can pull a pistol. This first book in a new series from Jonathan Stroud (Lockwood & Co and the Bartimaeus sequence) introduces us to a double act to die for (and many do, at their teenage hands).
Scarlett McCain is a tough-talking gunslinger with red hair, green eyes and a hard tongue — a cross between True Grit’s Mattie Ross and a young Annie Oakley. Her sidekick Albert Browne is an odd foil: skinny, scared, inept except for one incredible talent, which, when matched with Scarlett’s less supernatural skills, makes them a killer team.
The world they live in is hard to define. Britain is fragmented into seven kingdoms. We begin in ancient Wessex, in
