Loved this book! First on a side note I want to say I'd love to see another spin off series with Jared and Laurie as teens for a ya more than a children's or middle grade audience. Not that that has anything to do with this book but had to share my curious wish.

Even though Nick has been the main character through most of this series I didn't really start to like him at all until the end of the second book and even then it was reluctantly. In this book Nick's character grew into someone I actually admired and enjoyed spending so much time with. My favorites are still Laurie and Jared, but Nick turned out to make an excellent hero. I loved that Nick's skills wasn't so much that he was fast or strong but that even though he's kind of chubby and terrible at sports he's smart and when it comes down to it and it really matters, he's brave. I loved that Black and DiTerlizzi showed that these skills he had but never acknowledged as skills were enough to save the day against an even greater foe than Jared and his siblings faced in the first series.

This series definitely builds as you go from book to book and I found I liked it even better than the original series and while it's unlikely I hope to eventually see more stories from this world with these amazing and memorable characters.