The Golem's Eye

Darker than the last one (not detrimental), but suffers from being the ‘one-in-the-middle'. Still an excellent read.

I really really enjoyed the second book!

The humour is dry and well balanced. The additional characters added in to expand the plot kept things fresh and Kitty was a great focus point.

I feel like the plot is fairly well wrapped up, so I???m curious to see what book three has in store for me.

It may be classified as YA (Young Adult) but it rarely feels like that as you're reading. I enjoyed the first book in this trilogy so much that I quickly bought books 2 and 3. It just takes me a while to get around to every book I want to read. Am I right? Anyway, this book continues the saga of the young magician Nathaniel (who seems to be getting a little too caught up in the trappings of power), the djinni he calls upon to serve him, Bartimaeus (as wise-cracking as ever), and young Kitty Jones who's part of a small resistance movement against the disdainful, untrustworthy magicians that run the government. And there's some other conspiracy afoot which gets more and more dangerous. It's really interesting to follow the trajectories of Nathaniel and Kitty. But Bartimaeus has been around for centuries, so I doubt he's going to change (which is a good thing).