Children of Refuge

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Narrated by: Ramón De Ocampo

After Edwy is smuggled off to Refuge City to stay with his brother and sister, Rosi, Bobo, and Cana are stuck alone - and in danger - in Cursed Town in the thrilling follow-up to Children of Exile from New York Times best-selling author Margaret Peterson Haddix.

It's been barely a day since Edwy left Fredtown to be with his parents and, already, he is being sent away. He's smuggled off to boarding school in Refuge City, where he will be with his brother and sister, who don't even like him very much. The boarding school is nothing like the school that he knew, there's no one around looking up to him now, and he's still not allowed to ask questions!

Alone and confused, Edwy seeks out other children brought back from Fredtown and soon discovers that Rosi and the others - still stuck in the Cursed Town - might be in danger. Can Edwy find his way back to his friends before it's too late?

©2017 Margaret Peterson Haddix (P)2017 Recorded Books

Great

It held my attention so thoroughly that I sped through it in a single day (at 2.00x speed, no less!). My main complaint, though, is the decision to split what feels like one cohesive story into three separate books. If the author had woven them all into a single volume, I believe it would have been a masterpiece. Dividing it like this unfortunately gives off a somewhat cheap impression. Still, this second book was genuinely fantastic, and I'm certainly looking forward to exploring other titles by this author.