Julia Sarene's Reviews > The Wishing Stone

The Wishing Stone by Adam Holcombe is the second book about the necromancer grandma Gam Gam and her new ward Mina.

The relationship between these two has grown even stronger, and I just adore the found family vibes. The humour and love makes this a warm and cosy book, but then there's the necromancy, and the big bad villain, so it's quite dark in places as well.

Cosy-Dark is definitely my latest obsession, and after I found Kingfisher I can't get enough of it. Holcombe absolutely delivers on this craving!

This second book is faster paced and has more stakes and adventure. We meet friends and enemies, old and new, and get into a whole lot of trouble.

The story also delves a little deeper into the characters emotions. So it gives us both more action, but also more introspection and a look on loss and how they deal with it. There's hope, friendship and family to counter balance the hard bits, which works out perfectly for my taste. I have no idea how the author manages to put so much story and character in such a short book, it must be magic.