Shadowshaper Legacy by Daniel José OlderMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
It took quite a while - about two years, in fact, but that's no surprise given how many projects Older has on his plate - but Shadowhouse Fall now has its follow-up, the third and final novel of the Cypher. Sierra and all the other 'shapers have their most important missions yet - first, get several of their friends out of jail after the events of the previous book; then take on the white supremacist Bloodhaüs (whose ill-placed umlaut, I think, is Older's cheeky way of poking fun at authors who do poor research of foreign languages, especially, say, languages from various PoC cultures - look at how many people are digging holes in the linguistic basis of J.K. Rowling's chosen names for boarding schools in Africa and Asia) for control of the Deck of Worlds and all of magic. Luckily, this time, Sierra finally has some of her best ancestral help yet - for while her family used to try to keep 'shaping a strictly male skill, there are some women practitioners too powerful to ignore, especially when they're the voices in Sierra's head insulting everyone and everything in witty island Spanish. After days reading Older's latest lovely piece of work, I can now bid this series ave atque vale and hope he's got more good YA stuff in the pipeline. But I'm sure there'll first be another Dactyl Hill Squad book too...
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