" Second volume of series, didn't read first and it still made sense. The Plot is pretty routine--a kidnapping leads the central characters to a neighboring city, where they make friends and engineer an escape from baddies with help from magical animals--but there are some unusually good ideas: I particularly liked the city's Festival of Lies, an annual event during which you can only speak untruths (unless you're touching an animal), and the training in being "invisible" in plain sight and other thief skills in which Goldie is trained. Interesting enough to read on in the series. "
— John, 1/31/2014