Echoes of a Giantkiller by E. Jade Lomax

When I first read this book I can’t tell you what I was thinking about because 100% of my attention was focused solely on what was happening in the pages before me.

Beanstalk was a book about friends who were in school (despite Grey’s precociousness he is an exception at 15 so let’s liken the Academy to University years–if University years included extra curricular monster slaying and world saving). Echoes of a Giantkiller allows our heroes to stretch their legs in a much bigger (and much badder) world. No longer heroes-in-training, their experiences in Rivertown at the end of the last book have earned them special dispensation and they are now officially a ‘baby league’ headed off to the mountains to follow wherever Laney is being taken.

The mountains, where Jack’s past as Giantkiller is more a reality with every step. The…