Can't help but to love Lyle's writing style, which hooked me on The Alchemist of Souls and which she continues at the Merchant of Dreams.
Fast paced plot take turns on Mal and Coby.
Mal is send to Venice to spy on Skrylings doings with Ned as Coby is forced to stay behind with his brother Sandy to deal with problems occured in London, but as things go, she too is soon forced to flee England with Sandy and Gabriel and is hurried to reach Mal in treacherous Venice where they have to face more skrayling related problems adding to the fact that the brothers still carry the soul of one the mystical creatures in them.
